Gradle Transitive dependency exclusion is not working as expected. (How do I get rid of com.google.guava:guava-jdk5:13.0 ?)

Question

here is a snippet of my build.gradle:

compile 'com.google.api-client:google-api-client:1.19.0'
compile 'com.google.apis:google-api-services-oauth2:v2-rev77-1.19.0'
compile 'com.google.apis:google-api-services-plus:v1-rev155-1.19.0'
compile 'com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-gcs-client:0.4.1'
compile 'com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-mapreduce:0.8'

which imports multiple version of guava as you can see with dependencyInsight:

com.google.guava:guava:15.0 (conflict resolution)

com.google.guava:guava:14.0.1 -> 15.0
+--- com.googlecode.objectify:objectify:4.1.3
|    \--- default
\--- net.eusashead.spring:spring-cache-gae:1.0.0.RELEASE
     \--- default

com.google.guava:guava:[15.0,15.99] -> 15.0
+--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-gcs-client:0.4.1
|    +--- default
|    +--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-mapreduce:0.8
|    |    \--- default
|    \--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-pipeline:0.2.10
|         \--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-mapreduce:0.8 (*)
+--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-mapreduce:0.8 (*)
\--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-pipeline:0.2.10 (*)

com.google.guava:guava-jdk5:13.0
\--- com.google.api-client:google-api-client:1.19.0
     +--- default
     +--- com.google.apis:google-api-services-oauth2:v2-rev77-1.19.0
     |    \--- default
     +--- com.google.apis:google-api-services-plus:v1-rev155-1.19.0
     |    \--- default
     +--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-gcs-client:0.4.1
     |    +--- default
     |    +--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-mapreduce:0.8
     |    |    \--- default
     |    \--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-pipeline:0.2.10
     |         \--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-mapreduce:0.8 (*)
     +--- com.google.api-client:google-api-client-appengine:1.17.0-rc
     |    \--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-gcs-client:0.4.1 (*)
     +--- com.google.apis:google-api-services-storage:v1-rev1-1.18.0-rc
     |    \--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-gcs-client:0.4.1 (*)
     +--- com.google.apis:google-api-services-bigquery:v2-rev154-1.19.0
     |    \--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-mapreduce:0.8 (*)
     \--- com.google.api-client:google-api-client-servlet:1.17.0-rc
          \--- com.google.api-client:google-api-client-appengine:1.17.0-rc (*)

(*) - dependencies omitted (listed previously)

I have tried removing the dependency to : by doing:

compile ('com.google.api-client:google-api-client:1.19.0'){
        exclude group: 'com.google.guava', module: 'guava-jdk5'
    }
compile ('com.google.api-client:google-api-client:1.19.0'){
        exclude group: 'com.google.guava', 
    }

but the dependencyInsight remains the same. I also tried

compile ('com.google.guava:guava:15.0'){force = true}

but again dependency insight remains the same. How do I get rid of com.google.guava:guava-jdk5:13.0 ?

Details: I've tried gradle 1.2 and 2.1 on a windows 8.1 box

The reason for me to try this is to get rid of this exception:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.google.common.base.Stopwatch.createStarted()Lcom/google/common/base/Stopwatch;

Answer 1

It seems a dependency will not be excluded if there is another dependency somewhere that points to that same dependency without any of the excludes.

You can exclude a dependency through configuration however:

configurations {
  all*.exclude group: 'com.google.guava', module:'guava-jdk5'
}