The api sdk packages all dependencies in a fat jar which makes difficult to manage versions in the application side

[josebarrueta]

A SDK should not be packed as a fat jar, instead should declare in the pom what transitive dependencies are needed to run the library.

As an example I tried to upgrade the jackson serialization library in my application and that failed due to the classes loaded by the SDK were conflicting with the new version.

[josebarrueta]

Propose is to remove the following part from the the lib/build.gradle.

jar {
    enabled = true
    duplicatesStrategy = DuplicatesStrategy.EXCLUDE
    manifest {

    }

    from {
        configurations.runtimeClasspath.collect {
            it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it)
        }
    }
}

Dependencies are still brought transitively to an application:

[INFO] +- com.airbyte:api:jar:0.13.0:compile
[INFO] |  +- com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype:jackson-datatype-jdk8:jar:2.14.3:runtime
[INFO] |  +- org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:jar:4.4.16:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:jar:4.5.14:compile
[INFO] |  \- org.apache.httpcomponents:httpmime:jar:4.5.14:runtime