api / org.gradle.api.artifacts / ResolutionStrategy / force

force

abstract fun force(vararg moduleVersionSelectorNotations: Any): ResolutionStrategy

Allows forcing certain versions of dependencies, including transitive dependencies. Appends new forced modules to be considered when resolving dependencies.

It accepts following notations:

String in a format of: 'group:name:version', for example: 'org.gradle:gradle-core:1.0'
instance of ModuleVersionSelector
any collection or array of above will be automatically flattened

Example:

 apply plugin: 'java' //so that there are some configurations configurations.all { resolutionStrategy.force 'asm:asm-all:3.3.1', 'commons-io:commons-io:1.4' }

Parameters

moduleVersionSelectorNotations - typically group:name:version notations to append

Return
this ResolutionStrategy instance

Since
1.0-milestone-7