Remove antlr4 Dependency?

Right now, com.graphql-java:graphql-java:2.1.0 has a dependency on org.antlr:antlr4:4.5.1 in its POM. AFAIK, org.antlr:antlr4:4.5.1 represents the JAR with the tools that you would use to generate your parser/lexer from the grammar. While you might need that to build com.graphql-java:graphql-java, you should not need that to use com.graphql-java:graphql-java. The org.antlr:antlr4-runtime:4.5.1 artifact contains the runtime code that gets used by the code-generated parser/lexer.

As it stands, attempting to build an Android app that uses com.graphql-java:graphql-java results in a build error, due to multiple libraries defining the same Java class. However, if I do this:

    compile('com.graphql-java:graphql-java:2.1.0') {
        exclude module: 'antlr4'
    }

then everything is fine.

Are you really sure that your POM is supposed to list a dependency for org.antlr:antlr4:4.5.1?

Thanks!

[foragerr]

@IamCornholio You found and tied together an SO question, a gradle forum post and a github issue; I bow to your google fu!

You should post your pom customization snippet as an answer on SO.

[dminkovsky]

Oh, and for posterity: to build the to-be-published POM locally without publishing:

./gradlew generatePomFileForGraphqlJavaPublication`

This build the POM in:

build/publications/graphqlJava/pom-default.xml