android - Gradle not including dependencies in published pom.xml

Question

I have a Gradle project I'm using the maven-publisher plugin to install my android library to maven local and a maven repo.

That works, but the generated pom.xml does not include any dependency information. Is there a workaround to include that information, or am I forced to go back to the maven plugin and do all the manual configuration that requires?

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Researching I realized that I'm not telling the publication where the dependencies are, I'm only specifying the output/artifact, so I need a way to link this MavenPublication to the dependencies, but I have not yet found how to do that in the documentation.

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Gradle 1.10
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Build time:   2013-12-17 09:28:15 UTC
Build number: none
Revision:     36ced393628875ff15575fa03d16c1349ffe8bb6

Groovy:       1.8.6
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.2 compiled on July 8 2013
Ivy:          2.2.0
JVM:          1.7.0_60 (Oracle Corporation 24.60-b09)
OS:           Mac OS X 10.9.2 x86_64

Relevant build.gradle sections

//...
apply plugin: 'android-library'
apply plugin: 'robolectric'
apply plugin: 'maven-publish'

//...
repositories {
     mavenLocal()
     maven  {
         name "myNexus"
         url myNexusUrl
     }
     mavenCentral()
}

//...
android.libraryVariants
publishing {
    publications {
        sdk(MavenPublication) {
            artifactId 'my-android-sdk'
            artifact "${project.buildDir}/outputs/aar/${project.name}-${project.version}.aar"
        }
    }
    repositories {
        maven  {
            name "myNexus"
            url myNexusUrl
            credentials {
                username myNexusUsername
                password myNexusPassword
            }
        }
    }
}

Generated pom.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>org.example.android</groupId>
  <artifactId>my-android-sdk</artifactId>
  <version>gradle-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>aar</packaging>
</project>

Answer 1

I was able to work around this by having the script add the dependencies to the pom directly using pom.withXml.

//The publication doesn't know about our dependencies, so we have to manually add them to the pom
pom.withXml {
    def dependenciesNode = asNode().appendNode('dependencies')

    //Iterate over the compile dependencies (we don't want the test ones), adding a <dependency> node for each
    configurations.compile.allDependencies.each {
        def dependencyNode = dependenciesNode.appendNode('dependency')
        dependencyNode.appendNode('groupId', it.group)
        dependencyNode.appendNode('artifactId', it.name)
        dependencyNode.appendNode('version', it.version)
    }
}

This works for my project, it may have unforeseen consequences in others.