How can I depend on the war created in a different module? I see the plugin creates a variant in the

archives

configuration, but I can't seem to resolve that from a different module 🤔

--------------------------------------------------
Variant archives
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Configuration for archive artifacts.

Capabilities
    - com.acme:web-module:0.0.0 (default capability)
Artifacts
    - build/libs/web-module-0.0.0.jar (artifactType = jar)
    - build/libs/web-module-0.0.0.war (artifactType = war)

I tried

implementation(projects.webModule) { artifact { type = "war" } }
or
implementation(projects.webModule) { artifact { extension = "war" } }

but neither worked resulting in

Could not find web-module.war (project :web-module).

According to the documentation, the

war

plugin creates a new

components.web

component, but I'm not sure how to depend on/resolve that.

The war plugin does not create an outgoing variant that provides the

war

unfortunately, neither does the

ear

plugin. See https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/1353 and https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/34192 for reference. What I do in such cases is to modify the default outgoing variants to include the

war

instead of the

jar

. This works properly as long as the project does not produce a

jar

that should also be consumed by other projects, but only the

war

. So for example

val apiElements by configurations.existing {
    outgoing.artifacts.clear()
    outgoing.artifact(war)
    attributes {
        attribute(BUNDLING_ATTRIBUTE, objects.named(EMBEDDED))
    }
}

val runtimeElements by configurations.existing {
    outgoing.artifacts.clear()
    outgoing.artifact(war)
    attributes {
        attribute(BUNDLING_ATTRIBUTE, objects.named(EMBEDDED))
    }
}

This removes the

jar

from the two outgoing variants and adds the

war

instead. Then you can just depend on the project that produces the

war

and you get the

war

as artifact. The

archives

configuration is not something you should or can consume by default and iirc in recent Gradle versions also does not exist anymore. It was iirc mainly defining which artifacts get built if you use the

assemble

task.

nice, thank you 👍