Renovate bot does not update gradle dependencies declared in an array

[jreij]

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I think I found a bug

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We have a gradle array where we declare all our dependencies. Within this array we have multiple dependencies defined as a key-value structure and some others that are in an array form with values only (no keys). It seems that renovate is not updating those dependencies.

ext {
    leak_canary_version = "2.13"
    appcompat_version = "1.6.1"
    // this is outdated
    coroutines_version = "1.6.4" 
    // this is also outdated
    lifecycle_version = "2.5.1"

    libraries = [
        leakCanary      : "com.squareup.leakcanary:leakcanary-android:$leak_canary_version",
        kotlinCoroutines: [
            // these dependencies do not get updated
            // they are grouped together in one array because we always need to import them together
            // we cannot add keys to them because the command to import them fails (check the last "implementation" line below)
            "org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-core:$coroutines_version",
            "org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-android:$coroutines_version"
        ],
        androidx        : [
            appcompat       : "androidx.appcompat:appcompat:$appcompat_version",
            lifecycle       : [
                // these dependencies do not get updated
                "androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-runtime-ktx:$lifecycle_version",
                "androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-viewmodel-ktx:$lifecycle_version"
            ]
        ],
    ]
}


dependencies {
    implementation libraries.leakCanary
    implementation libraries.androidx.appcompat
    // this line imports the whole array directly
    implementation libraries.kotlinCoroutines
    // this line imports the whole array directly
    implementation libraries.androidx.lifecycle
}

I checked the logs of Mend renovate and I could not find any of these dependencies there, while I found the rest of the dependencies.

Logs (if relevant)

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[rarkins]

Renovate doesn't support this custom approach to dependency definitions in Gradle

[rarkins]

@Churro do you need a reproduction repo?

[Churro]

Not necessarily but if @jreij provides one, I could use it in a PR for demonstration 👍

[Churro]

-> see PR #28517

[jreij]

I can verify that this is now fixed in 37.307.0. Thanks @Churro!