useTarget

This method can be used to replace a dependency before it is resolved, e.g. change group, name or version (or all three of them), or replace it with a project dependency. Accepted notations are:

• Strings encoding group:module:version, like 'org.gradle:gradle-core:2.4'
• Maps like [group: 'org.gradle', name: 'gradle-core', version: '2.4']
• Project instances like project(":api")
• Any instance of ModuleComponentSelector or ProjectComponentSelector

Parameters

notation - the notation that gets parsed into an instance of ComponentSelector.

This method can be used to replace a dependency before it is resolved, e.g. change group, name or version (or all three of them), or replace it with a project dependency and provides a human readable reason for diagnostics. Accepted notations are:

• Strings encoding group:module:version, like 'org.gradle:gradle-core:2.4'
• Maps like [group: 'org.gradle', name: 'gradle-core', version: '2.4']
• Project instances like project(":api")
• Any instance of ModuleComponentSelector or ProjectComponentSelector

Parameters

notation - the notation that gets parsed into an instance of ComponentSelector.

Since
4.5