org.gradle.api.artifacts
Interface ClientModule

All Superinterfaces:

Dependency, ExternalDependency, ModuleDependency, ModuleVersionSelector

public interface ClientModule
extends ExternalDependency

To model a module in your dependency declarations. Usually you can either declare a single dependency artifact or you declare a module dependency that depends on a module descriptor in a repository. With a client module you can declare a module dependency without the need of a module descriptor in a remote repository.

addDependency

void addDependency(ModuleDependency dependency)

Add a dependency to the client module. Such a dependency is transitive dependency for the project that has a dependency on the client module.

Parameters:

dependency - The dependency to add to the client module.

See Also:

getDependencies()

getId

String getId()

Returns the id of the client module. This is usually only used for internal handling of the client module.

Returns:

The id of the client module

getDependencies

Set<ModuleDependency> getDependencies()

Returns all the dependencies added to the client module.

See Also:

addDependency(ModuleDependency)

copy

ClientModule copy()

Creates and returns a new dependency with the property values of this one.

Specified by:

copy in interface Dependency

Specified by:

copy in interface ExternalDependency

Specified by:

copy in interface ModuleDependency

Returns:

The copy. Never returns null.