Support "*" entries in the Artifact Manifest for includeBuild depende…

…ncy substitution (#53)

This is needed to make NFRT use Gradle supplied dependencies even if the
version numbers mismatch (i.e. in includeBuild scenarios).

README.md

@@ -133,9 +133,11 @@ path for that artifact as the value. For example:
 
 `com.google.guava\:guava\:32.1.2-jre=C\:\\path\\to\\file.jar`
 
+If a specific version is not found in the manifest, NFRT will also check for an entry with the version `*` to support
+dependency replacement scenarios.
+
 To aid with detecting missing entries to fully cover all required artifacts, the `--warn-on-artifact-manifest-miss`
-option
-enables warnings when an artifact is being looked up, but not found in the manifest.
+option enables warnings when an artifact is being looked up, but not found in the manifest.
 NFRT will continue to download the artifact remotely in this case.
 
 ### Mojang Launcher Manifest

src/main/java/net/neoforged/neoform/runtime/artifacts/ArtifactManager.java

@@ -266,6 +266,14 @@ private Artifact getFromExternalManifest(MavenCoordinate artifactCoordinate) {
             return artifact;
         }
 
+        // Fall back to looking up a wildcard version for dependency replacement in includeBuild scenarios
+        if (!"*".equals(artifactCoordinate.version())) {
+            artifact = externallyProvided.get(artifactCoordinate.withVersion("*"));
+            if (artifact != null) {
+                return artifact;
+            }
+        }
+
         if (warnOnArtifactManifestMiss && !externallyProvided.isEmpty()) {
             LOG.println("  " + AnsiColor.YELLOW + "WARNING: " + AnsiColor.RESET + artifactCoordinate + " is not present in the artifact manifest");
         }

src/main/java/net/neoforged/neoform/runtime/utils/MavenCoordinate.java

@@ -128,4 +128,14 @@ public MavenCoordinate withClassifier(String classifier) {
                 version
         );
     }
+
+    public MavenCoordinate withVersion(String version) {
+        return new MavenCoordinate(
+                groupId,
+                artifactId,
+                extension,
+                classifier,
+                version
+        );
+    }
 }