Gradle file to publish library to maven repo using maven publish gradle plugin.

maven-publish.gradle

/**
 * create following variables in your project level build.gradle file's extended block
 *  ext {
 *      lib_repo_username = "repo user name"
 *      lib_repo_password = "repo password"
 *      lib_repo_url = "lib repo url"
 *      lib_group_id = "group id"
 *      lib_artifact_id = "artifact id"
 *      lib_version_name = "version name"
 *  }
 *
 *  then in your library level build.gradle file, write
 *  
 *  1. apply plugin: 'maven-publish' (at the top along with other plugins)
 *  2. apply from: 'link to this file/maven-publish.gradle' (after android block)
 */

task androidSourcesJar(type: Jar) {
    archiveClassifier.set("sources")
    from android.sourceSets.main.java.srcDirs
}

project.afterEvaluate {
    publishing {

        repositories {
            maven {
                credentials {
                    username = lib_repo_username
                    password = lib_repo_password
                }
                url lib_repo_url
            }
        }

        publications {
            maven(MavenPublication) {
                groupId lib_group_id
                artifactId lib_artifact_id
                version lib_version_name

                artifact bundleReleaseAar
                artifact androidSourcesJar

                pom.withXml {
                    final dependenciesNode = asNode().appendNode('dependencies')

                    ext.addDependency = { Dependency dep, String scope ->
                        if (dep.group == null || dep.version == null || dep.name == null || dep.name == "unspecified")
                            return // ignore invalid dependencies

                        final dependencyNode = dependenciesNode.appendNode('dependency')
                        dependencyNode.appendNode('groupId', dep.group)
                        dependencyNode.appendNode('artifactId', dep.name)
                        dependencyNode.appendNode('version', dep.version)
                        dependencyNode.appendNode('scope', scope)

                        if (!dep.transitive) {
                            // If this dependency is transitive, we should force exclude all its dependencies them from the POM
                            final exclusionNode = dependencyNode.appendNode('exclusions').appendNode('exclusion')
                            exclusionNode.appendNode('groupId', '*')
                            exclusionNode.appendNode('artifactId', '*')
                        } else if (!dep.properties.excludeRules.empty) {
                            // Otherwise add specified exclude rules
                            final exclusionNode = dependencyNode.appendNode('exclusions').appendNode('exclusion')
                            dep.properties.excludeRules.each { ExcludeRule rule ->
                                exclusionNode.appendNode('groupId', rule.group ?: '*')
                                exclusionNode.appendNode('artifactId', rule.module ?: '*')
                            }
                        }
                    }

                    // List all "compile" dependencies (for old Gradle)
                    configurations.compile.getDependencies().each { dep -> addDependency(dep, "compile") }
                    // List all "api" dependencies (for new Gradle) as "compile" dependencies
                    configurations.api.getDependencies().each { dep -> addDependency(dep, "compile") }
                    // List all "implementation" dependencies (for new Gradle) as "runtime" dependencies
                    configurations.implementation.getDependencies().each { dep -> addDependency(dep, "runtime") }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

How does this looks like with Gradle 7.2 ?

configurations.api.getDependencies().each { dep -> addDependency(dep, "compile") }

With this line I run into

Could not find method addDependency() for arguments [DefaultProjectDependency{dependencyProject='project ':libs:gvr'', configuration='default'}, compile] on object of type org.gradle.api.publish.maven.internal.publication.DefaultMavenPom.

Here https://github.com/hannesa2/virocoreCommunity/pull/13/checks?check_run_id=3552520913

Hello. Late try: did anyone overcome this error, by any chance? There's not a lot of info about this around. Thanks