Using gradle to find dependency tree

Question

Is it possible to use gradle to produce a tree of what depends on what?

I have a project and would like to find out all the dependencies so I may be able to prune it

Answer 1

If you want all the dependencies in a single file at the end within two steps. Add this to your build.gradle.kts in the root of your project:

project.rootProject.allprojects {
    apply(plugin="project-report")

    this.task("allDependencies", DependencyReportTask::class) {
        evaluationDependsOnChildren()
        this.setRenderer(AsciiDependencyReportRenderer())
    }

}

Then apply:

./gradlew allDependencies | grep '\-\-\-' | grep -Po '\w+.*$' | awk -F ' ' '{ print $1 }' | sort | grep -v '\{' | grep -v '\[' | uniq | grep '.\+:.\+:.\+'

This will give you all the dependencies in your project and sub-projects along with all the 3rd party dependencies.

If you want to get this done in a programmatic way, then you'll need a custom renderer of the dependencies - you can start by extending the AsciiDependencyReportRenderer that prints an ascii graph of the dependencies by default.