is there a way to check the actual requested attributes in a ComponentMetadataRule? I want to use ComponentMetadata rules to disable transitive dependencies at all, but keep it for now for my codequality configurations like

checkstyle

and

spotless

. I wonder if there's a way or if I would need a different approach like using a specific variant for those configurations or something like that.

In a component metadata rule there is no such thing as a "requested attribute", it is not like a disambiguation or compatibility rule that runs in the context of resolution. It is a rule the manipulates the metadata of a component. You probably need to add a new variant based on the existing variant that provides a specific attribute, then manipulate the existing variant to remove the transitive dependencies, then request that new variant where you want to have the transitives.

yeah thats roughly what i thought.

You're welcome

eww running into some ordering issue. turns out

context.getDetails().addVariant

of a first declared rule is later evaluated than

context.getDetails().allVariants

of a later declared rule. Uff 🫣

Hm, I guess optimally they should be written in a way that does not depend on ordering 🤷‍♂️

I guess. but tried to have a rule that adds a variant with a specific attribute and then in another rule downstream deal with that attribute. seems like that is a dead end.