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Remove redundant explicit dependencies

Recipe IDorg.openrewrite.java.dependencies.RemoveRedundantDependencies
Artifactorg.openrewrite.recipe:rewrite-java-dependencies

Remove explicit dependencies that are already provided transitively by a specified dependency. This recipe downloads and resolves the parent dependency's POM to determine its true transitive dependencies, allowing it to detect redundancies even when both dependencies are explicitly declared. A direct dependency is only removed when the transitive one provides it at the exact same scope and with the same declared exclusions, so that removing it does not change the effective classpath.

Single recipeApache 2.0

Usage

You’ll need the Moderne CLI configured before running the command below.

mod run . --recipe org.openrewrite.java.dependencies.RemoveRedundantDependencies --recipe-option "groupId=com.fasterxml.jackson.core" --recipe-option "artifactId=jackson-databind"

If the recipe isn’t available locally, install it with:

mod config recipes jar install org.openrewrite.recipe:rewrite-java-dependencies:1.60.0

Options

NameTypeDescription
groupIdrequiredStringThe first part of a dependency coordinate com.google.guava:guava:VERSION of the parent dependency. This can be a glob expression.
e.g. com.fasterxml.jackson.core
artifactIdrequiredStringThe second part of a dependency coordinate com.google.guava:guava:VERSION of the parent dependency. This can be a glob expression.
e.g. jackson-databind

Data tables

Structured output this recipe can produce.

  • Source files that had resultsSource files that were modified by the recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileResults
  • Source files that had search resultsSearch results that were found during the recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SearchResults
  • Source files that errored on a recipeThe details of all errors produced by a recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileErrors
  • Recipe performanceStatistics used in analyzing the performance of recipes.org.openrewrite.table.RecipeRunStats