How to substitute dependency for a specific variant of Kotlin MPP dependency via attribute selectors?

This question has nothing to do with Kotlin multiplatform (Kotlin MPP) in that sense that from gradle point of view, Kotlin MPP configuration is just a particular case of multivariant build. So, imagine I want to redefine particular variant of dependency, for instance, I want to have a javascript module redefined. This approach works perfectly well:

substitute(module("org.shabunc.demo:lib-js")).using(project(":lib-js"))  

However it works because I know that for a common dependency "org.shabunc.demo" the "org.shabunc.demo-js" corresponds to the js variant of dependency.

I've decided to experiment with more advanced approach where I'm redefining the variant dependency, and I've tried to do something like this:

       val kotlinPlatformTypeAttr = Attribute.of("org.jetbrains.kotlin.platform.type", KotlinPlatformType::class.java)         ...         substitute(variant(module("org.shabunc.demo:lib")) {                  attributes {                      attribute(Usage.USAGE_ATTRIBUTE, objects.named(Usage::class.java, "kotlin-api"))                      attribute(kotlinPlatformTypeAttr, KotlinPlatformType.js)                  }                 }).using(variant(project(":lib-js")) {                  attributes {                      attribute(Usage.USAGE_ATTRIBUTE, objects.named(Usage::class.java, "kotlin-api"))                      attribute(kotlinPlatformTypeAttr, KotlinPlatformType.js)                  }                 })  

However this not working as expected, the compileKotlinMetadata is not resolving any entity defined in a common part of org.shabunc.demo:lib

My question is pretty straightforward: How can I redefine specific variant of Kotlin MPP dependency without relying on its name rather than on the name of common dependency?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66556610/how-to-substitute-dependency-for-a-specific-variant-of-kotlin-mpp-dependency-via March 10, 2021 at 08:17AM