Need to exclude a dependency from eclipse using a gradle build file - eclipse

Question

I'm trying to exclude a dependency, mainly "slf4j-simple" from my gradle build. It works well, but is not reflected when I run "gradle eclipse".
I have the following code in my gradle build file:
apply plugin:'war'
apply plugin:'eclipse'
apply plugin:'jetty'
...
dependencies {
compile 'mysql:mysql-connector-java:5.1.16'
compile 'net.sourceforge.stripes:stripes:1.5'
compile 'javax.servlet:jstl:1.2'
... (Rest of the dependencies)
}
configurations {
all*.exclude group:'org.slf4j',module:'slf4j-simple'
}
Now, when I run 'gradle build', the slf4j-simple is excluded from the war file created which is fine.
When I run 'gradle eclipse', the slf4j-simple is not excluded from the eclipse classpath.
A solution to the problem is mentioned in the gradle cookbook but I don't understand how to apply it:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRADLE/Cookbook#Cookbook-ExcludingdependenciesfromEclipseProjects

Answer 1

Try adding this to your build.gradle:
eclipseClasspath{
plusConfigurations.each{
it.allDependencies.each{ it.exclude group: 'org.slf4j', module: 'slf4j-simple' }
}
}

Answer 2

With gradle 1.0-milestone-3 I had to do a modification from rodion's answer to make it work:
eclipseClasspath{
doFirst{
plusConfigurations.each{
it.allDependencies.each{ it.exclude group: 'org.slf4j', module: 'slf4j-simple' }
}
}
}

Answer 3

Using eclipseClasspath didn't work for me, but this does the trick:
configurations {
compile {
exclude group: 'commons-logging'
exclude module: 'jcl-over-slf4j'
}
}
That excludes commons-logging from being included transitively (from the project's dependency on Spring) and also jcl-over-slf4j from being included in the Eclipse project's build path (I have a Gradle runtime dependency on jcl-over-slf4j but don't want it included on the build (compile) path.

Answer 4

This works in Gradle 4.10
eclipse {
classpath {
file {
whenMerged { cp ->
cp.entries.removeAll { (it instanceof Library) && it.moduleVersion?.group == 'org.slf4j' && it.moduleVersion?.name == 'slf4j-simple' }
}
}
}
}