A way to include/exclude an entire configuration

[levsa]

Would it be possible to support inclusion/exclusion of an entire configuration? For example, I have the following solution right now:

configurations.provided.allDependencies.each { dep ->
    shadowJar {
        dependencies {
            exclude(dependency(dep))
        }
    }
}

A nice solution would be:

shadowJar {
    dependencies {
        exclude(configurations.provided)
    }
}

[liach]

In my opinion this feature might be also useful for other different jar types (for example, modular projects that has different configurations for different libraries to include).

[liach]

Nevermind, actually I can make another shadowjar task like this:

import com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins.shadow.tasks.ShadowJar

task customJar(type: ShadowJar) {
    configurations = [project.configurations.customConfiguration]
    //include customConfiguration in the customJar
}

And:

shadowJar {
    dependencies {
        exclude(configurations.provided)
    }
}

Should be the best way of exclusion.

[johnrengelman]

Inclusion/Exclusion beyond a single specific dependency is not really possible right now. It's something I'm thinking about for v2. The biggest issue is how to handle transitive dependencies. If you have Dep. A and Dep B and both have a dependency to C. Then when you exclude Dep B, what should happen? Does C get excluded or does it remain because of A? Etc, etc. There's many variations of this to consider. Because of that complexity, I decided to not support it currently.

[johnrengelman]

This is basically a duplicate of https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow/issues/159.

[DevSrSouza]

@johnrengelman any update on this?