eclipse plugin - Gradle excludes self when excluding all transitive dependencies -

i've com across particular problem have been unable solve , grateful help. included jar dependencies artifact dependencies in java project. looked following:

    compile "com.example:projecta:1.0.0@jar" 

so far good. let's call project 'a'. have included project in java project b, again gradle. i've noticed published maven-publish did not exclude transitive dependencies, in pom file, when using in b.

so started using transitive flag:

dependency("com.example:projecta:1.0.0") {     transitive = false } 

this makes sure in project b, excluded transitive deps of when using eclipse plugin , gradle itself.

however problem missing exclusion in published pom.xml remained. found issue seems solved @ time of writing , gradle version: gradle-2945

so tried following:

dependency("com.example:projecta:1.0.0") {     exclude group: '*' } 

the pom file correctly has desired exclude rules transitive dependencies in accordance maven doc:

<groupid>com.example</groupid> <artifactid>projecta</artifactid> <version>1.0.0</version> <exclusions>   <exclusion>     <groupid>*</groupid>     <artifactid>*</artifactid>   </exclusion> </exclusions> 

however lead different set of problems; neither eclipse nor gradle when using compilejava task compile code in project b when including in fashion. along transitive dependencies had disappeared.

the strange thing though according dependencies task part of compile classpath.

i using jre7 , gradle 2.3 eclipse 4.41 , use nexus internal maven repository.

i expect not required use transitive flag , manipulate generated pom file manually adding desired exclusions.

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sample project reproduce problem using dbcp project a:

main.java:

import org.apache.commons.dbcp.basicdatasource; public class main {     public static void main(string[] args) {         system.out.println("hello world");         basicdatasource ds = new basicdatasource();     } } 

build.gradle:

version = '0.0.1' group = 'com.example'  apply plugin: 'java' apply plugin: 'eclipse' apply plugin: 'maven-publish'  repositories {     mavencentral() }  dependencies {     compile ('commons-dbcp:commons-dbcp:1.4')     {         transitive=false     } //  { //      exclude group: '*' //  } }   publishing {     publications {         mavenjava(mavenpublication) {             components.java         }     } } 

i think may have been bug in gradle. tested example files both gradle 2.3 , 2.5 command line. if use transitive = false, both versions compile project fine. switching exclude group: '*' syntax causes 2.3 build break. gradle 2.5 continues work fine.

in short, gradle upgrade should fix problem.