Version overridden when also referencing asciidoctor-pdf

[mrotteveel]

When only using the html5 backend with asciidoctor-gradle-plugin 1.5.7, asciidoctorj 1.5.6 is used (the generated html has <meta name="generator" content="Asciidoctor 1.5.6.1">).

If I reference org.asciidoctor:asciidoctorj-pdf:1.5.0-alpha.16 because I also want to generate PDF, then this is overridden and 1.5.5 is used (<meta name="generator" content="Asciidoctor 1.5.5">), even when explicitly specifying the version in the asciidoctorj tag. This probably happens because asciidoctorj-pdf:1.5.0-alpha.16 explicitly depends on asciidoctorj 1.5.5.

I'd expect the version declared in the asciidoctorj task to take precedence.

build.gradle:

defaultTasks 'clean', 'asciidoctor'

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath 'org.asciidoctor:asciidoctor-gradle-plugin:1.5.7'
        //classpath 'org.asciidoctor:asciidoctorj:1.5.6'
        classpath 'org.asciidoctor:asciidoctorj-pdf:1.5.0-alpha.16'
    }
}

apply plugin: 'org.asciidoctor.convert'

repositories {
    jcenter()
}

asciidoctorj {
    // To override default version of asciidoctorj use: version = '1.x.y'
    version = '1.5.6'
}

asciidoctor {
    sourceDir 'src/docs'
    backends=['html5', 'pdf']
}

As a workaround, I need to explicitly add a dependency on org.asciidoctor:asciidoctorj:1.5.6 (uncomment it in the build.gradle above).

[ysb33r]

You can also do

classpath 'org.asciidoctor:asciidoctorj-pdf:1.5.0-alpha.16', {
    exclude module : 'asciidoctorj'
}

[ysb33r]

@mrotteveel Have you managed to resolve this issue?

[mrotteveel]

@ysb33r The workaround works, but I consider the behavior itself a bug.

[ysb33r]

This is resolved in the 2.0-alpha.3 release, where one can control the versions in a simplified way, but still with fine granularity.

You will definitely no longer need any of the buildscript ugliness of 1.5.x.

AAMOF you could just apply the org.asciidoctor.jvm.pdf plugin which will give you an asciidoctorPdf task.

[mrotteveel]

Ok, thanks!