Upgrade transitive Gradle dependencies

org.openrewrite.gradle.UpgradeTransitiveDependencyVersion

Upgrades the version of a transitive dependency in a Gradle build file. There are many ways to do this in Gradle, so the mechanism for upgrading a transitive dependency must be considered carefully depending on your style of dependency management.

Recipe source

GitHub, Issue Tracker, Maven Central

• groupId: org.openrewrite

• artifactId: rewrite-gradle

• version: 8.24.0

Options

Type	Name	Description	Example
String	groupId	The first part of a dependency coordinate com.google.guava:guava:VERSION. This can be a glob expression.	com.fasterxml.jackson*
String	artifactId	The second part of a dependency coordinate com.google.guava:guava:VERSION. This can be a glob expression.	jackson-module*
String	version	Optional. An exact version number or node-style semver selector used to select the version number. You can also use latest.release for the latest available version and latest.patch if the current version is a valid semantic version. For more details, you can look at the documentation page of version selectors. Defaults to latest.release.	29.X
String	versionPattern	Optional. Allows version selection to be extended beyond the original Node Semver semantics. So for example,Setting 'newVersion' to "25-29" can be paired with a metadata pattern of "-jre" to select Guava 29.0-jre	-jre
String	because	Optional. The reason for upgrading the transitive dependency. For example, we could be responding to a vulnerability.	CVE-2021-1234

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Usage

This recipe has required configuration parameters. Recipes with required configuration parameters cannot be activated directly. To activate this recipe you must create a new recipe which fills in the required parameters. In your rewrite.yml create a new recipe with a unique name. For example: com.yourorg.UpgradeTransitiveDependencyVersionExample. Here's how you can define and customize such a recipe within your rewrite.yml:

rewrite.yml

---
type: specs.openrewrite.org/v1beta/recipe
name: com.yourorg.UpgradeTransitiveDependencyVersionExample
displayName: Upgrade transitive Gradle dependencies example
recipeList:
  - org.openrewrite.gradle.UpgradeTransitiveDependencyVersion:
      groupId: com.fasterxml.jackson*
      artifactId: jackson-module*
      version: 29.X
      versionPattern: '-jre'
      because: CVE-2021-1234

Now that com.yourorg.UpgradeTransitiveDependencyVersionExample has been defined activate it in your build file:

Gradle

1. Add the following to your build.gradle file:

build.gradle

plugins {
    id("org.openrewrite.rewrite") version("6.12.0")
}

rewrite {
    activeRecipe("com.yourorg.UpgradeTransitiveDependencyVersionExample")
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

2. Run gradle rewriteRun to run the recipe.

Moderne CLI

You will need to have configured the Moderne CLI on your machine before you can run the following command.

shell

mod run . --recipe UpgradeTransitiveDependencyVersionExample

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Contributors

Jonathan Schnéider, Sam Snyder, Jente Sondervorst, Shannon Pamperl