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pbanfi
pbanfi

Reputation: 1885

Gradle - 'flatten' default resource directory

in my project I've the following directory setup:

My goal is to override the default resources elaboration and to "flatten" this directory tree in the final archive.

At the moment I found only this ugly solution:

resources {
  exclude 'release'
  exclude 'common'
  exclude 'local'
  srcDir 'src/main/resources/common'
  srcDir 'src/main/resources/local'
  srcDir 'src/main/resources/release'
}

With this solution I think that the files in src/main/resources will be copied in the final archive. Is there a way to exclude the resources default directory?

Is there any better way to solve my problem?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 464

Answers (2)

Raja Nagendra Kumar
Raja Nagendra Kumar

Reputation: 426

What if we don't wish to explicity give each directly..can flatten happen as in ant it is happens with flatten attribute as in

https://alvinalexander.com/blog/post/java/flatten-directories-during-copy-with-java-ant-task/

Upvotes: 0

Peter Niederwieser
Peter Niederwieser

Reputation: 123890

A better approach is to override the default locations:

sourceSets {
    main {
        resources {
            srcDirs = [
                'src/main/resources/common', 
                'src/main/resources/local',
                'src/main/resources/release'
            ]
        }
    }
}

It's a common idiom for Gradle APIs to offer a property (such as srcDirs) that allows to set a collection (thereby overriding any defaults), and a similarly named method (such as srcDir) that allows to add to the collection (thereby adding to the defaults).

My goal is to [...] "flatten" this directory tree in the final archive.

Not sure what you mean by that.

Upvotes: 1

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