Publishing only root project's artifacts using :artifactoryPublish

[Tomas-Jakubec]

How can we help?

Hello,
I have a multi-module Gradle project where the Artifactory convention is applied to each module individually using build logic conventions, including the root project. Sometimes, I want to limit artifactory traffic by publishing only specific modules, which I can do with gradle :<module>:artifactoryPublish. However, when I run gradle :artifactoryPublish from the root project, the plugin publishes artifacts from all submodules.

Is there a way to configure the root project convention so that running gradle :artifactoryPublish only publishes the root project's artifacts (publications), similar to how it works for subprojects?

[Tomas-Jakubec]

I found a workaround by removing the dependencies on other publish tasks in the root project’s configuration. Here’s how I did it:

configure<ArtifactoryPluginConvention> {
    publish {
        defaults {
            dependsOn.removeAll { dependency ->
                when (dependency) {
                    is TaskProvider<*> -> dependency.name == ARTIFACTORY_PUBLISH_TASK_NAME
                    is ArtifactoryTask -> true
                    else -> false
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

This configuration ensures that the root project’s artifactoryPublish task does not depend on the publish tasks of subprojects, so only the root project’s artifacts are published when running gradle :artifactoryPublish.