How we can do mvn install:install-file for in gradle for 3rd party transient dependencies?

We have Bouncycastle dependencies, coming from one dependency and another one. Sothey are something like that:

implementation 'org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14:1.61' <- explicitly added

'bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14:138' <- taken from another dependency

They have the different group name, so I can’t just exclude 138. But I can’t inrement it to 161 too, as is hosts nowhere in the repos.

Can I set up something to my Gradle script to

1. Take org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14:1.61 jar

2. Do something like

   mvn install:install-file -Dfile=<path-to-file> -DgroupId=<group-id> -DartifactId=<artifact-id> -Dversion=<version> -Dpackaging=<packaging>

but with Gradle where I’ll put the desired format like bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14:161

3. Only then do the rest of the build?

>Solution :

You can do it locally when you have the Jar file. Create a folder named lib in your project directory to store the Bouncy Castle JAR file. Place the bcprov-jdk14-1.61.jar file in the lib folder.

Modify your Gradle script (build.gradle) to include the following configuration,The configurations block defines a custom configuration named bouncyCastle

configurations {
    bouncyCastle
}

dependencies {
    // Other dependencies...
    
    bouncyCastle 'org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14:1.61'
}

task installBouncyCastleJar {
    doLast {
        def bcFile = file('lib/bcprov-jdk14-1.61.jar')
        def groupId = 'bouncycastle'
        def artifactId = 'bcprov-jdk14'
        def version = '161'
        def packaging = 'jar'
        
        project.repositories.mavenInstaller.install([
                file: bcFile,
                groupId: groupId,
                artifactId: artifactId,
                version: version,
                packaging: packaging
        ])
    }
}

project.afterEvaluate {
   build.dependsOn(installBouncyCastleJar)
}