[GRADLE-1995] Tooling API: Allow to explicitly retrieve information about unresolved dependencies Created: 12/Dec/11  Updated: 10/Feb/17  Resolved: 10/Feb/17

Status: Resolved
Project: Gradle
Affects Version/s: 1.0-milestone-6
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Bug
Reporter: Denis Zhdanov Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Won't Fix Votes: 2


 Description   

The Tooling API doesn't allow to get information about unresolved third-party dependencies. Here is a simple test that illustrates that:

  1. Go to $GRADLE_HOME/samples/java/quickstart;
  2. Define, say, version '10.2' for 'commons-collections' dependency at 'build.gradle' there;
  3. Start the program below: 
    package org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle;

import org.gradle.tooling.GradleConnector;
import org.gradle.tooling.ModelBuilder;
import org.gradle.tooling.ProjectConnection;
import org.gradle.tooling.model.idea.*;

import java.io.File;

/**
 * @author Denis Zhdanov
 * @since 12/8/11 5:07 PM
 */
public class GradleStartClass {

  private static final String GRADLE_PROJECT_PATH = "/home/denis/dev/gradle/gradle-1.0-milestone-6/samples/java/quickstart";

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    test("/home/denis/dev/gradle/gradle-1.0-milestone-6"); // Don't expect exception here
  }

  private static void test(String gradleHome) {
    GradleConnector connector = GradleConnector.newConnector();
    connector.useInstallation(new File(gradleHome));
    connector.forProjectDirectory(new File(GRADLE_PROJECT_PATH));
    ProjectConnection connection = connector.connect();
    ModelBuilder<? extends IdeaProject> modelBuilder = connection.model(IdeaProject.class);
    IdeaProject project = modelBuilder.get();
    for (IdeaModule module : project.getModules()) {
      for (IdeaDependency dependency : module.getDependencies()) {
        if (dependency instanceof IdeaModuleDependency) {
          continue;
        }
        System.out.printf("Dependency: %s%n", ((IdeaSingleEntryLibraryDependency)dependency).getFile());
      }
    }
  }
}

Output:

Dependency: unresolved dependency - commons-collections#commons-collections;10.2
Dependency: /home/denis/.gradle/caches/artifacts-4/junit/junit/c12498cf18507aa6433a94eb7d3e77d5/jars/junit-4.10.jar
Dependency: /home/denis/.gradle/caches/artifacts-4/org.hamcrest/hamcrest-core/c12498cf18507aa6433a94eb7d3e77d5/jars/hamcrest-core-1.1.jar


 Comments   
Comment by Szczepan Faber [ 16/Jan/12 ]

What do you mean explictly? If the dependency type has a flag isResolved() (or something like that, e.g. information about the resolution result) is it good enough?

Comment by Denis Zhdanov [ 16/Jan/12 ]

Yes, that would be sufficient

Comment by Denis Zhdanov [ 22/Jan/13 ]

I see that gradle-1.4-rc-2 mentions the following at the release notes:

'With earlier versions of Gradle, it was not possible to generate a dependency resolution report if one of the dependencies could not be resolved. This has been rectified. Not only will the dependency resolution reports run successfully if a dependency cannot be resolved, the reports will now include details of those dependencies that couldn't be resolved.'

However, that is information is still unavailable via the tooling api.

Comment by Szczepan Faber [ 25/Jan/13 ]

Correct. We'll fix it at some point. Thanks for being patient!

Comment by Benjamin Muschko [ 15/Nov/16 ]

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Comment by Benjamin Muschko [ 10/Feb/17 ]

Thanks again for reporting this issue. We haven't heard back from you after our inquiry from November 15th. We are closing this issue now. Please create an issue on GitHub if you still feel passionate about getting it resolved.

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