How to publish to Artifactory with Gradle without publishing dependent projects-CodePudding

I'm updating some build.gradle files to add Artifactory publishing. In some cases I want to publish the top level project's artifacts without publishing artifacts for its dependent projects. The dependent projects get published on their own or when built by a different project.

I've added basic publishing and artifactory tasks to the build.gradle files and they work, but for example if there's a project called "api" that has a dependent project called "db", when I run the build.gradle for "api", it publishes the artifacts for both "api" and "db". I want it to only publish the api artifacts.

I'm not having much luck finding what I want on Jfrog's site. The documentation mentions "Use the artifactoryPublish.skip flag to deactivate analysis and publication", but honestly I don't know what to do with that and if it would help in my case.

The gradle scripts are referencing dependencies like this:

implementation project(path: ':db', configuration: 'default')

I've run the builds in both Eclipse and Jenkins. We use Gradle 7.4. I'm calling the clean, build, and artifactoryPublish tasks. I suspect there's probably an easy way to do this, and I'm just not seeing it.

For reference, this is my publishing task:

publishing {
    publications {
        mavenJava(MavenPublication) {
            from components.java
        }
    }
}

And here's the publish part of the artifactory section:

publish {
    repository {
        repoKey = 'libs-release-local'
        username = "${artifactory_user}"
        password = "${artifactory_password}"
        ivy {
          ivyLayout = '[organization]/[module]/[revision]/ivy-[revision].xml'
          artifactLayout = '[organization]/[module]/[revision]/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]'
          mavenCompatible = true 
        }
    }
    defaults {
        publications('mavenJava')
        publishArtifacts = true
        properties = ['qa.level': 'basic', 'dev.team' : 'core']
        publishPom = true
        publishIvy = true
    }
}

CodePudding user response：

I found an answer. For a project that has "db" as a dependency, after the dependencies section of my build.gradle file, I added the following:

gradle.startParameter.excludedTaskNames  = "db:artifactoryPublish"

Now when I run the artifactoryPublish task for the api project, it does not execute for the db project, too.

CodePudding user response：

For excluding the "db" project from publishing to Artifactory, you can add the following in your build.gradle file:

project('db') {
    artifactoryPublish.skip = true
}