Gradle dependencies of local dependency

Question

So let's say I have project A, which requires certain dependencies. And I have project B, which has project A as one of its dependencies. So I have the following code in project B's build.gradle:

project B's build.gradle:

dependencies {
    compile files("projectA_dir/build/libs/projectA.jar")
}

However, since Gradle does not include project A's dependencies in projectA.jar by default. I was wondering if there's a way to let project B successfully compile project A without creating a fatjar for project A.

Answer 1

The jar file doesn't contain the transitive dependencies and doesn't have a pom file which describes the dependencies used by the module.

It means that, if you are importing a jar file using compile files you have to specify the dependencies also in your project .

You should use a maven repository , private or public, to avoid the issue.
In this case, gradle downloads the dependencies using the pom file which will contains the dependencies list.