groovy-xml is not needed by embedded-consul. Unless I missed something important in your case, please just add it to your project as your tests need that dependency.

See #102 for explanation.

Thanks for explaining!
I still don't see how Dubbo depends on GPathResult but I guess you are right!

I've figured it!
You use compile 'org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder:http-builder:0.7.1' as a dependency and it uses the XML related classes: https://github.com/jgritman/httpbuilder/blob/72fb50a94cbd85f7cde17be0ea6b8e8375bc573e/src/main/java/groovyx/net/http/ParserRegistry.java#L26-L27
So, Embedded Consul does depend on groovy-xml!

@szpak Do you agree with me that this PR should be reconsidered ?

I didn't expect that, but you seem to be right :-). groovy-xml was a part of groovy.jar in the past, so it is not a transitive dependency after we enforce groovy-2.5.

Btw, seeing:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
            <artifactId>groovy</artifactId>
            <version>1.8.8</version>

in the httpbuilder's pom.xml, I'm glad it still works with Groovy 2.5...

Thanks for your PR. And thanks for Apache Wicket ;-).

in the httpbuilder's pom.xml, I'm glad it still works with Groovy 2.5...

If you feel adventurous you may want to replace it with https://http-builder-ng.github.io/http-builder-ng/ ;-)

Thanks for your PR. And thanks for Apache Wicket ;-).

Hehe :-)
Thank you too!

If you feel adventurous you may want to replace it with https://http-builder-ng.github.io/http-builder-ng/ ;-)

Unfortunately:

Dormant - The HttpBuilder-NG project is going dormant. Neither of us use the project any longer nor do we have the extra time to properly maintain it.

okhttp is some alternative, however rather 3.x as 4.x migrated to Kotlin, which introduces extra dependency. Nevertheless, it would probably need to be done by some external contribution :-).