Gradle with Integrated SQL Security - sql-server

Question

I'm currently working on converting one of our Maven projects to use Gradle.
Here is the issue I'm currently facing:
This project is using SQL Integrated security. Here is how Maven handles it (this took us a while to figure it out):
<dependency>
<groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
<artifactId>sqljdbc4</artifactId>
<version>4.0</version>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>${project.basedir}/libs/sqljdbc4.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>
after run gradle init --type pom
this specific dependency has been converted to something like this:
system group: 'com.microsoft.jdbcdriver', name: 'sqljdbc', version:'4.0.1'
which is not right. Gradle can't build. More specifically, the system scope does not even exist in Gradle's API (neither I found it in any third party Gradle plugin).
Any help from whom had any experience with Gradle SQL integrated security would highly appreciated.

Answer 1

It is very easy to emulate scope system with Gradle by adding a configuration.
Create configuration system and set it as the compile classpath. Any dependencies added to system will now be available during compilation (though I doubt you need a specific JDBC driver for compilation), but the dependencies in system will not be added to the published dependencies of the module:
configurations {
system.extendsFrom compile
}
sourceSets {
main {
compileClasspath = configurations.system
}
}
Now you can easily add the JAR of the JDBC driver to the system configuration. This assumes you still want to refer to a local file just like with Maven:
dependencies {
system files('libs/sqljdbc-4.0.1.jar')
}
But if you have the JAR in a (local) repository, it is better to use the repository:
dependencies {
system 'com.microsoft.jdbcdriver:sqljdbc:4.0.1'
}