java - Gradle : how to translate "type" and "scope" from Maven dependency?

Question

my Java project has a dependency in Maven like this :

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.dependency</groupId>
        <artifactId>some-artifact</artifactId>
        <type>test-jar</type>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency> 

but when I write this in gradle, it does not recognize and I found no jar :

implementation 'com.dependency:some-artifact'

I wonder the reason is that I have to specify type and scope also, but I don't know what is the gradle equivalent to these two ?

Answer 1

The Gradle equivalent of scope is called configuration. The configuration that is equivalent to Maven's test scope is testImplementation.

There is no equivalent to Maven's type configuration in Gradle. However, there're classifier and extension. The classifier for test-jar is tests (according to the Maven docs).

Putting it all together, and for demonstration purposes assuming the version of the dependency is 1.0.0, you should declare the dependency like this:

testImplementation 'com.dependency:some-artifact:1.0.0:tests'

Further reading:

• Dependency management in Gradle
• Declaring dependencies
• DependencyHandler