Using moditect to add module info to dependency without downloading the dependency

Question

I am trying to use moditect in order to allow creating runtime image while using automated named modules (ArcGIS). ArcGIS module requires openjfx 11 (which I have added as dependency as well, since it is an JavaFX project). However, when I am trying to build the runtime image, I am getting the following error

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: duplicate element: javafx.base

I think it is because maven is also adding the ArcGIS openjfx dependency to the project (this includes openjfx for every platform (win, mac, linux), which causes it to have duplicate javafxs.

How should I add module info without also adding the openjfx dependencies?

Here the part of pom.xml with moditect plugin if that helps

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.moditect</groupId>
                <artifactId>moditect-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>add-module-info-to-dependencies</id>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <configuration>
                            <overwriteExistingFiles>true</overwriteExistingFiles>
                            <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/modules</outputDirectory>
                            <modules>
                                ...
                                <module>
                                    <artifact>
                                        <groupId>com.esri.arcgisruntime</groupId>
                                        <artifactId>arcgis-java</artifactId>
                                        <version>${arcgis.version}</version>
                                    </artifact>
                                    <moduleInfo>
                                        <name>com.esri.arcgisruntime</name>
                                    </moduleInfo>
                                </module>
                            </modules>
                        </configuration>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>add-module-info</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>

Answer 1

In addition to the <artifact>, instead <moduleInfo> tags, you will need to override the source of the moduleinfo.java using moduleInfoSource:

<module>
    <artifact>...</artifact>    
    <moduleInfoSource>
        module com.esri.arcgisruntime {
            requires ...;
            exports ...;
            provides ...
                with ...;
        }
    </moduleInfoSource>
</module>

You'll have to go through the dependency structure of com.esri.arcgisruntime to do this, but moditect does provide a generate-module-info goal that will auto-generate that for you.

Then you would update requires javafx.base to requires transitive javafx.base (and potentially other javafx entries) to indicate the module depends on it, but should load it from elsewhere.