Gradle replaces SLF4J-API 1.7.36 with 2.0.7, causing warning about no providers in wiremock-standalone

[tpearsonbray]

Proposal

WireMock depends on slf4j-api:1.7.36 and WireMock standalone depends on slf4j-noop:1.7.36

As WireMock dependencies use other versions ofslf4j-api, Gradle resolves the versions to the latest:
Partial output of gradlew dependencies

It does not change the version of slf4j-noop, resulting in a mismatch and a warning that there are no providers since SLF4J 2+ expects providers to be loaded via SPI.

The warning can be resolved specifying the provider wiremock.org.slf4j.helpers.NOP_FallbackServiceProvider in META-INF/services/wiremock.org.slf4j.spi.SLF4JServiceProvider.

Reproduction steps

1. Create a project with wiremock-standalone as a test dependency
2. Start a WireMock server in the test
3. Observe the SLF4J warning

References

#1964

A portion of wiremock.org.slf4j.LoggerFactory in wiremock-standalone 3.2.0 showing the URL constant for the ignoredBindings warning:

[oleg-nenashev]

Thanks for reporting!

[Xabibax]

I did it in #2449