Vendored Gradle exits 0 with no warning on a classifier dependency of the patched module, then the build fails with "Could not find …-tests.jar" and IDE sources silently disappear

[mikolalysenko]

[agent] Found by the scheduled Gradle bug-hunt routine (ledger #319).

Summary

The generated Gradle script claims the patched coordinates with exclusiveContent { … includeVersion(g, a, v) } (crates/socket-patch-core/src/vendor/jvm/socket-patch.settings.gradle:51). That claim covers every artifact of g:a:v, including classifier variants (tests, sources, javadoc, …), but the vendored repo only holds the main jar and pom. So once a project is vendored:

• A declared classifier dependency (testImplementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-text:1.10.0:tests', or Kotlin classifier = "tests") can't be resolved, and the build fails with Could not find commons-text-1.10.0-tests.jar … Searched in .socket/vendor/gradle/….
• IDE-style sources resolution (ArtifactResolutionQuery … SourcesArtifact, which is what IntelliJ / Eclipse sync use) silently returns no sources for the patched module. Before vendoring it returned commons-text-1.10.0-sources.jar.

vendor still exits 0 with status: success and no warning. vendor --check returns vendor_check_ok, and vex attests not_affected / inline_mitigations_already_exist.

The Maven backend already handles this: maven_reactor.rs:983 warns classifier_declared ("a classifier variant of … bypasses the pin"), and docs/design/maven-vendoring.md lists classifier artifacts as unsupported scope. The Gradle planner has no equivalent check. gradle.rs only runs check_android and check_exclusive_content on build files (gradle.rs:119-120, 157-158), so the unsupported declaration goes through without a warning or a refusal.

Impact

A repo that uses a tests-classifier artifact of a patched library stops building once the vendored commit lands, even though vendor, check and VEX all report success. Every IDE user also silently loses source attachment for the patched module.

Repro (Linux, Gradle 8.14.3 and 9.8.0, main 61cfb9b)

mkdir c1 && cd c1 && git init -q
echo "rootProject.name = 'c1'" > settings.gradle
cat > build.gradle <<'EOF'
plugins { id 'java' }
repositories { mavenCentral() }
dependencies {
  implementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-text:1.10.0'
  testImplementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-text:1.10.0:tests'
}
tasks.register('cp') { doLast { configurations.testRuntimeClasspath.files.each { println "CP " + it } } }
EOF
gradle -q cp            # OK: commons-text-1.10.0.jar, commons-text-1.10.0-tests.jar, commons-lang3
git add -A && git commit -qm init
# stage .socket/manifest.json + blob for a pkg:maven/org.apache.commons/commons-text@1.10.0 patch
socket-patch vendor --json   # exit 0, status success, no warnings
git add -A && git commit -qm vendored && git clone -q . ../fresh
gradle -q -p ../fresh cp
# > Could not find commons-text-1.10.0-tests.jar (org.apache.commons:commons-text:1.10.0).
#   Searched in the following locations:
#     file:/…/.socket/vendor/gradle/org/apache/commons/commons-text/1.10.0/commons-text-1.10.0-tests.jar
socket-patch vendor --check --json   # vendor_check_ok, exit 0

Sources check (add to build.gradle, then run gradle -q src):

tasks.register('src') { doLast {
  def ids = configurations.runtimeClasspath.incoming.resolutionResult.allComponents.collect { it.id }.findAll { it instanceof ModuleComponentIdentifier }
  def r = dependencies.createArtifactResolutionQuery().forComponents(ids).withArtifacts(JvmLibrary, SourcesArtifact).execute()
  r.resolvedComponents.each { c -> c.getArtifacts(SourcesArtifact).each { a -> println "SRC ${c.id} -> ${a instanceof ResolvedArtifactResult ? a.file.name : a.failure}" } }
} }

Before vendoring it prints SRC org.apache.commons:commons-text:1.10.0 -> commons-text-1.10.0-sources.jar. After vendoring it prints nothing.

The patch data came from the repo's own fixture path (prebuilt_common::prepare_command plus a staged manifest and blob for a META-INF/NOTICE.txt marker patch, the same as e2e_vendor_jvm_build.rs).

Expected vs actual

• Expected: docs/design/maven-vendoring.md says classifier artifacts are not enabled in this release, and that for unsupported declarations "the backend does not silently claim those unsupported declarations are patched." So vendor should warn or refuse (like Maven's classifier_declared) when a build file declares a classifier of the patched GAV. Alternatively, the exclusive filter or the vendored repo should still let classifier artifacts resolve upstream.
• Actual: exit 0, no warning, a broken build, lost IDE sources, vendor_check_ok, and VEX not_affected.

Matrix

OS	Gradle	DSL	Result
Linux	8.14.3 (JDK 21)	Groovy :tests	fail (×2: original tree and fresh clone)
Linux	9.8.0 (JDK 21)	Groovy :tests	fail (fresh clone)
Linux	9.8.0 (JDK 21)	Kotlin classifier = "tests"	fail, VEX not_affected
Linux	8.14.3	sources via ArtifactResolutionQuery	fail (silently empty)
macOS / Windows	—	—	untested. The behaviour comes from the OS-independent script and Gradle resolution

The Gradle backend is new in v5 (2463257), so there's no earlier good release.

Suspect code

• crates/socket-patch-core/src/vendor/jvm/socket-patch.settings.gradle:49-52: exclusiveContent with includeVersion claims every classifier of the GAV.
• crates/socket-patch-core/src/vendor/jvm/gradle.rs:119-120 / 157-158: no classifier-declaration warning to match maven_reactor.rs:983-988.

[mikolalysenko]

[agent] Triaged as priority:p3 (Gradle). Not a duplicate, and no PR fixes it yet.

The Maven reactor planner already warns classifier_declared (vendor/jvm/maven_reactor.rs:983). The Gradle vendored path has no equivalent check, nor does it vendor the classifier artifacts.

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[mikolalysenko]

[agent] Claiming this issue as part of the full Gradle support campaign (agent / hosted / vendored modes, tested on Gradle 6.9/7.6/8.x/9.x on Linux, macOS and Windows). Branch: feat/gradle-support. Claim-ID: 2026-10-02T13:56:32Z-gradle21

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