How to ignore a specific transitive dependency from all dependencies in Gradle

Question

How can I ignore a specific transitive dependency in Gradle?

For example, many libraries (such as Spring and ...) depend on commons-logging, I want to replace commons-logging with SLF4J (and its jcl-over-slf4j bridge).

Is it any way in my gradle script to mention it once, and not for each dependency which depends on commons-logging?

I was thinking of an script, iterating on all dependencies and adding some exclude on all of them, is there any better solution? And how that script be like?

Answer 1

configurations {
    compile.exclude group: 'commons-logging'
}

Answer 2

Came here with the same problem but ended up using the following to do an actual replace. Posting it for completeness' sake.

configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy.eachDependency {
        if(it.requested.name == 'commons-logging') {
            it.useTarget 'org.slf4j:jcl-over-slf4j:1.7.7'
        }
    }
}