upgrade to gradle 4.1 and gradle plugin updates

build.gradle

@@ -1,19 +1,11 @@
-buildscript {
-    repositories {
-        mavenCentral()
-    }
-    dependencies {
-        classpath "io.codearte.gradle.nexus:gradle-nexus-staging-plugin:0.5.3"
-    }
-}
-
 plugins {
     id 'java'
     id 'idea'
-    id 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow' version '1.2.4'
+    id 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow' version '2.0.1'
     id "org.asciidoctor.convert" version "1.5.3"
     id "com.bmuschko.nexus" version "2.3.1"
-    id "me.champeau.gradle.jmh" version "0.3.1"
+    id "me.champeau.gradle.jmh" version "0.4.4"
+    id "io.codearte.nexus-staging" version "0.9.0"
 }
 asciidoctorj {
     version = '1.5.5'
@@ -48,9 +40,9 @@ ext {
 }
 
 repositories {
-     mavenLocal()
-     maven { url "https://m2.neo4j.org/content/repositories/snapshots" }
+     //mavenLocal() // please don't add mavenLocal here - it causes the build to be dependent on local existence of jar files
      mavenCentral()
+     maven { url "https://m2.neo4j.org/content/repositories/snapshots" }
      maven { url "http://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/" }
 //     maven { url "https://m2.neo4j.org/content/groups/everything/" }
 }
@@ -116,20 +108,6 @@ javadoc {
     options.addStringOption('Xdoclint:none', '-quiet')
 }
 
-shadowJar {
-    dependencies {
-        include(dependency('commons-codec:commons-codec'))
-        include(dependency('org.hdrhistogram:HdrHistogram'))
-        include(dependency('com.jayway.jsonpath:json-path'))
-        include(dependency('net.minidev:asm'))
-        include(dependency('net.minidev:json-smart'))
-        include(dependency('org.slf4j:slf4j-api'))
-        include(dependency('net.minidev:accessors-smart'))
-        include(dependency('com.github.javafaker:javafaker'))
-    }
-}
-
-
 /**************
 * ASCIIDOCTOR *
 **************/

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-#Tue Aug 16 14:27:26 CEST 2016
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.0-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.1-bin.zip

gradlew

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
 
 ##############################################################################
 ##
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS=""
 # Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
 MAX_FD="maximum"
 
-warn ( ) {
+warn () {
     echo "$*"
 }
 
-die ( ) {
+die () {
     echo
     echo "$*"
     echo
@@ -154,16 +154,19 @@ if $cygwin ; then
     esac
 fi
 
-# Split up the JVM_OPTS And GRADLE_OPTS values into an array, following the shell quoting and substitution rules
-function splitJvmOpts() {
-    JVM_OPTS=("$@")
+# Escape application args
+save () {
+    for i do printf %s\\n "$i" | sed "s/'/'\\\\''/g;1s/^/'/;\$s/\$/' \\\\/" ; done
+    echo " "
 }
-eval splitJvmOpts $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS $JAVA_OPTS $GRADLE_OPTS
-JVM_OPTS[${#JVM_OPTS[*]}]="-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME"
+APP_ARGS=$(save "$@")
+
+# Collect all arguments for the java command, following the shell quoting and substitution rules
+eval set -- $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS $JAVA_OPTS $GRADLE_OPTS "\"-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME\"" -classpath "\"$CLASSPATH\"" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain "$APP_ARGS"
 
 # by default we should be in the correct project dir, but when run from Finder on Mac, the cwd is wrong
-if [[ "$(uname)" == "Darwin" ]] && [[ "$HOME" == "$PWD" ]]; then
+if [ "$(uname)" = "Darwin" ] && [ "$HOME" = "$PWD" ]; then
   cd "$(dirname "$0")"
 fi
 
-exec "$JAVACMD" "${JVM_OPTS[@]}" -classpath "$CLASSPATH" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain "$@"
+exec "$JAVACMD" "$@"