Gradle 7.0 Version Catalog for maven bom

Question

I have published maven bom and imported it in top level build.gradle.kts as:

allProjects {
  dependencies {
        implementation(platform("com.example:some-dependencies:1.2.3"))
    }
}

And then in libs.versions.toml:

[libraries]
some-bom = { group = "com.example", name="some-dependencies", version="1.2.3" }

When I change first code sample to:

allProjects {
  dependencies {
        implementation(platform(libs.some.bom))
    }
}

I get:

Could not resolve: javax.xml.bind:jaxb-api
Could not resolve: org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test
...

Is there any way to use Gradle 7 version catalogs with boms?

Answer 1

In my case, it just worked. I'm working on Android project and my script is just like below:

//libs.versions.toml
[libraries]
deps_okhttp_bom = "com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp-bom:4.9.1"
deps_okhttp_lib = { module  ="com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp" }
deps_okhttp_logging_interceptor = { module= "com.squareup.okhttp3:logging-interceptor"}

//build.xml
dependencies {
  implementation platform(libs.deps.okhttp.bom)
  implementation libs.deps.okhttp.lib
  implementation libs.deps.okhttp.logging.interceptor
}

In your example, you just added dependency for BOM. But as BOM is just an spec sheet which describes versions for each libraries, you need to add dependencies for specific libraries.