Provided dependencies using Gradle (JetGradle) and Intellij Idea 13

Question

I have a multiproject build with multiple war modules that depends on one jar module.

Both war and jar modules have dependencies over libraries like Spring, Hibernate an

Answer 1

The best solution I found was to set the transitive "compile" dependencies from the jar module as provided using the following code in the Gradle configuration file:

apply plugin: 'idea'

configurations {
    provided
    provided.extendsFrom(compile)
}

idea {
    module {
        scopes.PROVIDED.plus += configurations.provided
    }
}

For Gradle 2.0+ modify the last bit to be like this:

idea {
    module {
        scopes.PROVIDED.plus += [configurations.provided]
    }
}

This solution works using the Intellij Gradle plugin and also the idea task in Gradle

I got this solution working based on the info on this urls: https://github.com/Netflix/RxJava/pull/145 http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/dsl/org.gradle.plugins.ide.idea.model.IdeaModule.html

I hope this helps someone else