How to add a local jar dependency to another dependency in gradle?

Question

The jar amazon-kinesis-connectors is using amazon-kinesis-client. I want to change this dependency to a local custom jar:

dependencies {
    compile ('com.amazonaws:amazon-kinesis-connectors:1.2.0'){
        exclude group: "com.amazonaws", module: "amazon-kinesis-client"
    }
    compile files('libs/amazon-kinesis-client-1.6.3.jar')
//...
}

It compiles ok, but when I'm running the code I get java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/amazonaws/services/kinesis/clientlibrary/interfaces/IRecordProcessorFactory. Is there a way to do this dependency management in gradle?

As environment I'm using:

gradle 2.13
intellij idea CE 2006.1
java 1.8

Edit:

dependency graph in intellij:

Running using a gradle task:

task run_app(type:JavaExec) {
    main = 'org.main.RunApp'
    classpath = sourceSets.main.runtimeClasspath
}

This means, the jar is not included in the runtime package. Can you tell be if it is war or jar some other packaging and how the packaging is done. Also tell me how are you executing/running — Sangram Jadhav
@SangramJadhav: I'm creating a jar using gradle build. I've edited the other details in the answer. — djWann

Sangram Jadhav Sangram Jadhav · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-30T11:09:46

try below gradle configuration

dependencies {
    compile ('com.amazonaws:amazon-kinesis-connectors:1.2.0'){
        exclude group: "com.amazonaws", module: "amazon-kinesis-client"
    }
    compile files('libs/amazon-kinesis-client-1.6.3.jar')
    runtime files('libs/amazon-kinesis-client-1.6.3.jar')
    //...
}

or you can use application plugin to create executable jar

https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/userguide_single.html#application_plugin

How to add a local jar dependency to another dependency in gradle?

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