# DependencyArtifactSelector

interface DependencyArtifactSelector

Details about an artifact selection in the context of a dependency substitution. Artifact selections are handy as a migration path from the Maven or Ivy ecosystem, where different "variants" are actually represented as different artifacts, with specific (type, extension, classifier) sub-coordinates, in addition to the GAV (group, artifact, version) coordinates. It is preferable to use component metadata rules to properly describe the variants of a module, so this variant selector should only be used when defining such rules is not possible or too complex for the use case.

#### Since

6.6

## Functions

getClassifier
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@Nullable
abstract fun getClassifier(): @Nullable String
Returns the classifier of the artifact to select.
getExtension
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@Nullable
abstract fun getExtension(): @Nullable String
Returns the extension of the artifact to select.
getType
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abstract fun getType(): String
Returns the type of the artifact to select