gradle snippet to modify pom contents

pom_modify.groovy

install.repositories.mavenInstaller.pom.whenConfigured { pom ->
    excludedJars = project.bnd.exclusions.tokenize(",").collect{ dep ->
        splitDep = dep.split(':')
        [splitDep[0],splitDep[1]]
    }
    deps = project.configurations['compile'].dependencies.collect {dep ->[dep.group,dep.name]}
    pom.dependencies.removeAll {dep -> !excludedJars.contains([dep.groupId,dep.artifactId])}
}