From 7a19e25fe3d8e0c878f02a2b42cae533eec7966a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Michael Vorburger.ch" <vorburger@google.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2026 00:57:19 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix: Make Apache HTTP Components an optional Maven dependency
 in GenAI.

This is a first step towards eventually fully removing Apache HTTP Client.

See https://github.com/googleapis/java-genai/issues/741.

FUTURE_COPYBARA_INTEGRATE_REVIEW=https://github.com/googleapis/java-genai/pull/799 from googleapis:release-please--branches--main 1daac4e2b82c2fb92b86184cfc7fa81fce347e3e
PiperOrigin-RevId: 864741595
---
 pom.xml | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 66873e6fb6a..ff2709ae7c4 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
       <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
       <version>${apache.httpcomponents.httpclient.version}</version>
+      <!-- TODO(vorburger): Fully remove this later; see https://github.com/googleapis/java-genai/issues/741. -->
+      <optional>true</optional>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.auto.value</groupId>