Excluding a specific package from a dependency in Gradle

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I have a dependency in one of my project

implementation (group: 'com.ibm.cloud', name: 'ibmcloudsql-jdbc', version: '2.5.34')

I want to specifically exclude a package from this jar, i.e

com.ibm.cloud.sdk.core.http

Is there a way? I already tried this but did not work.

implementation (group: 'com.ibm.cloud', name: 'ibmcloudsql-jdbc', version: '2.5.34'){
    exclude module: 'com.ibm.cloud.sdk.core.http'
  }
gradlew gradle maven java
1 Answers

You can't use dependency management to remove part of a dependency - with dependency management it's either the complete dependency or no dependency (and this is not limited to gradle - other dependency managers / build systems like maven or ivy also don't have this feature).

The exclude module can only be used to prevent inclusion of transitive dependencies (i.e. you need dependency com.xy:A and com.xy:A declares that it also needs com.xy:B - with exclude module you can prevent the inclusion com.xy:B)

It might be possible to create your own version of that dependency by manually removing the package com.ibm.cloud.sdk.core.http from the jar itself and adding that modified jar file to your project.

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