useTarget

abstract fun useTarget(notation: Any)(source)

This method can be used to replace a dependency before it is resolved, e.g. change group, name or version (or all three of them), or replace it with a project dependency. Accepted notations are:

  • Strings encoding group:module:version, like 'org.gradle:gradle-core:2.4'
  • Maps like [group: 'org.gradle', name: 'gradle-core', version: '2.4']
  • Project instances like project(":api")
  • Any instance of ModuleComponentSelector or ProjectComponentSelector

Parameters

notation

the notation that gets parsed into an instance of ComponentSelector.


abstract fun useTarget(notation: Any, reason: String)(source)

This method can be used to replace a dependency before it is resolved, e.g. change group, name or version (or all three of them), or replace it with a project dependency and provides a human readable reason for diagnostics. Accepted notations are:

  • Strings encoding group:module:version, like 'org.gradle:gradle-core:2.4'
  • Maps like [group: 'org.gradle', name: 'gradle-core', version: '2.4']
  • Project instances like project(":api")
  • Any instance of ModuleComponentSelector or ProjectComponentSelector

Since

4.5

Parameters

notation

the notation that gets parsed into an instance of ComponentSelector.