Gradle: Override transitive dependency by version classifier

Question

One of the dependencies declared in my project has a transitive dependency on \'com.google.guava:guava:15.0\'. But my application deployed on WAS/Weblogic doesn

Answer 1

Since force = true is deprecated, relevant solution is to use strictly(...) version, e.g.:

dependencies {
    // no need to exclude transitive spring-data-relational from this dependency
    implementation("org.springframework.data", "spring-data-r2dbc", "1.1.0.RC1")

    implementation("org.springframework.data", "spring-data-relational").version {
        strictly("2.0.0.RC1")
    }
}

P.S. tested on Gradle 6.3