Partial Cherry-pick of #886 and Additional Adjustments

build.gradle

@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ plugins {
     id 'nebula.ospackage' version "8.3.0" apply false
     id "com.diffplug.gradle.spotless" version "3.26.1"
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'org.gradle.test-retry' version '1.3.1'
+    // Gradle 7.6 support was added in test-retry 1.4.0.
+    id 'org.gradle.test-retry' version '1.4.1'
 }
 
 tasks.withType(JavaCompile) {
@@ -75,6 +76,14 @@ tasks.withType(Test) {
     systemProperty "file.encoding", "UTF-8"
     jvmArgs("--add-opens", "java.base/java.time=ALL-UNNAMED")
     jvmArgs("--add-opens", "java.base/java.util.stream=ALL-UNNAMED")
+
+    // PowerMock related tests like SearchFeatureDaoTests relies on modifying the bytecode of
+    // classes during runtime, which can conflict with the module system introduced in Java 9.
+    // To resolve this issue, we use the --add-opens option to explicitly open the java.util
+    // and java.lang package to PowerMock. This option allows PowerMock to access non-public
+    // members of the java.util and java.lang package.
+    jvmArgs('--add-opens', 'java.base/java.util=ALL-UNNAMED')
+    jvmArgs('--add-opens', 'java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED')
 }
 tasks.withType(Javadoc) {
     options.encoding = 'UTF-8'
@@ -134,7 +143,6 @@ configurations.all {
     if (it.state != Configuration.State.UNRESOLVED) return
     resolutionStrategy {
         force "joda-time:joda-time:${versions.joda}"
-        force "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.14.1"
         force "commons-logging:commons-logging:${versions.commonslogging}"
         force "org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:${versions.httpcore}"
         force "commons-codec:commons-codec:${versions.commonscodec}"
@@ -733,8 +741,8 @@ dependencies {
     compileOnly "org.opensearch:opensearch-job-scheduler-spi:${job_scheduler_version}"
     implementation "org.opensearch:common-utils:${common_utils_version}"
     implementation "org.opensearch.client:opensearch-rest-client:${opensearch_version}"
-    implementation group: 'com.google.guava', name: 'guava', version:'31.0.1-jre'
-    implementation group: 'com.google.guava', name: 'failureaccess', version:'1.0.1'
+    compileOnly group: 'com.google.guava', name: 'guava', version:'31.0.1-jre'
+    compileOnly group: 'com.google.guava', name: 'failureaccess', version:'1.0.1'
     implementation group: 'org.javassist', name: 'javassist', version:'3.28.0-GA'
     implementation group: 'org.apache.commons', name: 'commons-math3', version: '3.6.1'
     implementation group: 'com.google.code.gson', name: 'gson', version: '2.8.9'
@@ -747,7 +755,6 @@ dependencies {
     implementation 'software.amazon.randomcutforest:randomcutforest-core:3.0-rc3'
 
     // force Jackson version to avoid version conflict issue
-    implementation "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.14.1"
     implementation "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.14.1"
     implementation "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:2.14.1"
 

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.4.2-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.6.1-bin.zip
+networkTimeout=10000
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists