Shading
This is the legacy RestClient. Please migrate to Rest5Client, a drop-in replacement with an up-to-date http library.
In order to avoid version conflicts, the dependencies can be shaded and packaged within the client in a single JAR file (sometimes called an "uber JAR" or "fat JAR"). Shading a dependency consists of taking its content (resources files and Java class files) and renaming some of its packages before putting them in the same JAR file as the low-level Java REST client. Shading a JAR can be accomplished by 3rd-party plugins for Gradle and Maven.
Be advised that shading a JAR also has implications. Shading the Commons Logging layer, for instance, means that 3rd-party logging backends need to be shaded as well.
Here is a configuration using the Maven Shade plugin. Add the following to your pom.xml file:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals><goal>shade</goal></goals>
<configuration>
<relocations>
<relocation>
<pattern>org.apache.http</pattern>
<shadedPattern>hidden.org.apache.http</shadedPattern>
</relocation>
<relocation>
<pattern>org.apache.logging</pattern>
<shadedPattern>hidden.org.apache.logging</shadedPattern>
</relocation>
<relocation>
<pattern>org.apache.commons.codec</pattern>
<shadedPattern>hidden.org.apache.commons.codec</shadedPattern>
</relocation>
<relocation>
<pattern>org.apache.commons.logging</pattern>
<shadedPattern>hidden.org.apache.commons.logging</shadedPattern>
</relocation>
</relocations>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Here is a configuration using the Gradle ShadowJar plugin. Add the following to your build.gradle file:
shadowJar {
relocate 'org.apache.http', 'hidden.org.apache.http'
relocate 'org.apache.logging', 'hidden.org.apache.logging'
relocate 'org.apache.commons.codec', 'hidden.org.apache.commons.codec'
relocate 'org.apache.commons.logging', 'hidden.org.apache.commons.logging'
}