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gradle/org.gradle.api.component/ConfigurationVariantDetails/mapToOptional

mapToOptional

abstract fun mapToOptional()(source)

Provides information about the optional status of this added configuration variant.

For the Maven world, this means that dependencies will be declared as optional.
For the Ivy world, this means that configuration marked optional will not be extended by the default configuration.

Since

5.3