Datastore: duplicate classes in dependencies

Using the com.google.cloud:google-cloud-datastore jar version 0.3.0 as a dependency in my project resulted in a lot of transitive dependency jars. I ran the duplicate-finder plugin and it came up with duplicate classes in multiple of the datastore dependenies. Might be something you can do to exclude some of the dependencies?
duplicate-finder.txt

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@janbartel

Hi @janbartel, thanks for your interest in google-cloud-java.

Duplicated classes related to package com.google.cloud.datastore:datastore-v1-protos:1.0.1 were already discussed here and we should be able to resolve them soon.

For what concerns guava-related classes it seems that our dependency com.google.cloud.datastore:datastore-v1-proto-client is pulling guava-jdk5, which should be excluded instead (we do that elsewhere). @eddavisson would you consider excluding guava-jdk5? I believe google-http-client-protobuf is pulling it. The following updated dependency declaration should do the trick:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.google.http-client</groupId>
    <artifactId>google-http-client-protobuf</artifactId>
    <version>1.20.0</version>
    <exclusions>
      <exclusion>
        <artifactId>guava-jdk5</artifactId>
        <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
      </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
</dependency>

Also @eddavisson, I noticed that you still duplicate some common proto-related classes in datastore-v1-protos:1.2.0:

[WARNING]   com.google.api.AnnotationsProto
[WARNING]   com.google.api.CustomHttpPattern
[WARNING]   com.google.api.CustomHttpPatternOrBuilder
[WARNING]   com.google.api.Http
[WARNING]   com.google.api.HttpOrBuilder
[WARNING]   com.google.api.HttpProto
[WARNING]   com.google.api.HttpRule
[WARNING]   com.google.api.HttpRuleOrBuilder
[WARNING]   com.google.rpc.Code
[WARNING]   com.google.rpc.CodeProto
[WARNING]   com.google.rpc.Status
[WARNING]   com.google.rpc.StatusOrBuilder
[WARNING]   com.google.rpc.StatusProto
[WARNING]   com.google.type.LatLng
[WARNING]   com.google.type.LatLngOrBuilder
[WARNING]   com.google.type.LatLngProto

You should be able to pull those dependencies from com.google.api.grpc:grpc-google-common-protos:0.1.0.

Some of the code in google-http-client-protobuf has an actual dependency on guava (though not in a public interface). Would the exclusion break that (or should we shade it instead)? I'm still a bit of a novice when it comes to Maven.

That's great to know that the common proto classes are now available in a Maven artifact. I will work on making that update.

From the dependency tree I see:

[INFO] +- com.google.cloud.datastore:datastore-v1-proto-client:jar:1.1.0:compile
[INFO] |  +- com.google.http-client:google-http-client-protobuf:jar:1.20.0:compile
[INFO] |  \- com.google.api-client:google-api-client:jar:1.20.0:compile
[INFO] |     \- com.google.guava:guava-jdk5:jar:13.0:compile

guava-jdk5 is pulled by com.google.api-client:google-api-client. Something similar happens also in google-cloud-core where we already include a more recent version of guava (as you also do in datastore-v1-proto-client) and went ahead to exclude guava-jdk5. But don't trust my words, you better give it a try :)

@janbartel

@janbartel we just released google-cloud 0.4.0 which should have considerably removed duplicate classes. We still have some duplicates related to the following dependencies of ours:

datastore-v1-proto-client and grpc-google-common-protos: @eddavisson is taking care of this
protobuf-java and protobuf-lite: I need to investigate wether is safe to exclude protobuf-lite