How to exclude commons-logging from a scala/sbt/slf4j project?
ScalaSbtSlf4jScala Problem Overview
My scala/sbt project uses grizzled-slf4j and logback. A third-party dependency uses Apache Commons Logging.
With Java/Maven, I would use jcl-over-slf4j and logback-classic so that I can use logback as the unified logging backend.
I would also eliminate the commons-logging dependency that the third-party lib would let sbt pull in. I do the following in Maven (which is recommended by http://www.slf4j.org/faq.html#excludingJCL):
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<version>1.1.1</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
And the question is, how to do the same with sbt?
Scala Solutions
Solution 1 - Scala
Heiko's approach will probably work, but will lead to none of the dependencies of the 3rd party lib to be downloaded. If you only want to exclude a specific one use exclude
.
libraryDependencies += "foo" % "bar" % "0.7.0" exclude("org.baz", "bam")
or
... excludeAll( ExclusionRule(organization = "org.baz") ) // does not work with generated poms!
Solution 2 - Scala
For sbt 0.13.8 and above, you can also try the project-level dependency exclusion:
excludeDependencies += "commons-logging" % "commons-logging"
Solution 3 - Scala
I met the same problem before. Solved it by adding dependency like
libraryDependencies += "foo" % "bar" % "0.7.0" exclude("commons-logging","commons-logging")
or
libraryDependencies += "foo" % "bar" % "0.7.0" excludeAll(ExclusionRule(organization = "commons-logging"))
Solution 4 - Scala
Add intransitive your 3rd party library dependency, e.g.
libraryDependencies += "foo" %% "bar" % "1.2.3" intransitive