Nexus/Gradle lock specifc versions

Question

We are using gradle as a build tool and sonatype nexus to store project thirdparty and public artifacts.

There was a recent update to a public artifact say com.abc:cde:3.4.2, wherein our project uses com.abc:cde:3.4.1

However, during the build execution, gradle pulls the latest version of the artifact even though the build is explicitly specified to download only 3.4.1

compile 'com.abc:cde:3.4.1'

Is there a way to download only specific version of dependency even though nexus has the latest version of artifacts

Answer 1

You can force version numbers by using a resolution strategy on a configuration.

e.g.

configurations.compile {
  resolutionStrategy {
      force 'com.abc:cde:3.4.1'
  }
}

Check out https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.artifacts.ResolutionStrategy.html for more information.