Gradle, How To Disable All Transitive Dependencies

Question

Many of my jars have conflicting transitive dependencies (multiple spring versions). I would like to avoid inherited version conflicts by managing all of my dependencies explicitly, is it possible to disable all transitive dependencies in Gradle?

I know I can add transitive = false to each of my dependencies, but I am hoping there is a simpler way.

compile(group: 'org.springframework', name: 'spring', version: '2.5.2') {
    transitive = false
}

Answer 1

If you want to have just one configuration block for all configurations you can use spread-dot operator to express this.

configurations {
    // other configurations e.g. - compile.exclude module: 'commons-logging'
    all*.transitive = false
}

Answer 2

I ended up using:

configurations.all {
    transitive = false
}

Answer 3

In my case, I had a project (gradle module) depedency. I used the following to exclude the transitive dependencies in Gradle 3:

implementation(project(':<module_name>')) {
    transitive = false
}