You can add changing as an annotation attribute or embedded in the
short-form version:
E.g. in the Groovy codebase, ExtensionModuleTest:
@Grab(value='module-test:module-test:1.4', changing='true')
E.g. STCExtensionMethodsTest:
@Grab('module-test:module-test:1.4;changing=true')
On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 7:37 AM Per Nyfelt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have tried to create a reproducible example but did not succeed, hence no
> JIRA tocket. The reason is that -SNAPSHOT often works but far from always.
> Maybe it's a time thing (short duration between published snapshots), maybe
> its something else but I find it unreliable and the only reliable way i found
> is to clear the cache after publishing the snapshot. That being said, i have
> not tried changing=true. Where do i add that? To @GrabConfig or in the @Grab
> statement itself?
>
>
> On 3/15/26 16:18, Milles, Eric (TR Technology) via dev wrote:
>
> > GrapeIvy does not detect new snapshot versions well so you end up having to
> > clear the cache after each publish for GrapeIvy to find the new one
>
> Is there a JIRA ticket for this issue? Ivy should be seeing
> "abc-1.0.0SNAPSHOT.jar" as a snapshot not release and so it checks the
> repository for new artifacts. However, if you are pushing a new
> "abc-1.0.0.jar" to your repo, that is not automatically checked if cached.
> You can add "changing=true" attribute to your dependency or there are other
> config options to make this happen. Gradle behaves this same way unless you
> use "--refresh-dependencies" command-line argument.
