I have something working now that stops Ivy from cluttering up the output (but doesn't disable it forever), but calling it a hack would be too kind. Below are the relevant snippets:

// Outside of any tasks
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory
import ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger

// Inside task setup that wants to check dependencies and do something intelligent
task myTask {
  def ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger ivyLogbackLogger

  try  {
    // HACK: Turn off Ivy messages!!!!!!
    ivyLogger = 'org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.IvyLoggingAdaper'
    ivySlf4jLogger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ivyLogger)

    ivyLogbackLogger = (ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger)ivySlf4jLogger
    ivyLogbackLogger?.setLevel(ch.qos.logback.classic.Level.OFF)

    // ... something that actually tries to resolve via Ivy .resolve(), .asPath(), etc.
  } catch (ResolveException re) {
    // Adjust logic -- I'm actually setting a property for a later onlyIf {} check
  } finally {
    ivyLogbackLogger?.setLevel(null)
  }
}

Hi Allain,

do you mean the infamous 'error' message if you resolve the same dependency with a different resolver?

No. I mean the normal warning messages when Ivy cannot resolve a dependency. I have some 3rd party tools that are not accessible on every network where builds will occur.

When they are not found, Ivy spits out the normal very verbose warning messages that I do not want the user to see. I just want to notify the user that the absent 3rd party tool is not accessible (likely never will be on such a network) and the task(s) normally associated with it will be skipped if attempted to be invoked.

I'm essentially writing a custom plugin and using Ivy to resolve the dependencies for the tools and need to be able to test whether dependencies resolve properly without spitting out Ivy-generated warning/error messages to the end user.

I often wish I had a way to turn down/off Ivy logging. The amount of Ivy logging (e.g. on info level) is ridiculous and makes it hard to find other useful information.

I have a similar case (not related to ivy) where I am using a 3rd party library and it is throwing a whole bunch of stuff out to the gradle console that I don't want or care to see. I would like to see a way where, given some class, I could adjust the log level for that class (like in a logback config file).

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