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user3466395
user3466395

Reputation: 100

How to add a war build to a distribution

We have a gradle project that does a distTar to create a tar distribution file. Each dependency project builds good placing all the dependencies and project jar files into the distribution libs folder.

We need to add a project that builds a war file. By adding the project as a dependency it adds all the war dependencies ... we need just the war file from the project war task. Also the war project war task is not being executed. Instead the jar task is being executed from distTar of the distribution project.

How do we execute the project war task and add just the war file to a "gui" folder in the tar distribution?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2401

Answers (3)

Tono Wiedermann
Tono Wiedermann

Reputation: 608

I believe the proper approach is to include desired task outputs to the distribution. Here is sample script that adds jar built by the project to the main distribution (for war use war outputs instead of jar outputs).

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'distribution'

distributions {
    main {
        contents {
            from jar.outputs
        }
    }
}

Running the distribution task then correctly resolves dependencies for both zip and tar.

> gradlew distTar
:clean
:compileJava
:processResources NO-SOURCE
:classes
:jar
:distTar

Upvotes: 1

user3466395
user3466395

Reputation: 100

To get the built war file into the distribution add a task which the distTar depends. Have the depends on task depend on the other project war task. Take the output files and put them in the distribution. The key is to do the into/from in a doLast so the depends on other project war completes before the into/from for the distribution.

// create a task depends on other project war
// put into the distribution gui folder the war.output.files
// the doLast gives visibility to the war.outputs.files
// after the depends on is complete
task otherProjectWar(dependsOn: ':OtherProject:war') {
  doLast {
    applicationDistribution.into("gui") {
      from( project(':OtherProject').war.outputs.files )
    }
  }
}

// add depends on for distTar
distTar {
  dependsOn otherProjectWar
  ...
}

Upvotes: 1

Mark Vieira
Mark Vieira

Reputation: 13466

You'll need to add a dependency to the output of the war task. By default, ProjectDependency simply adds a dependency to the default configuration of that project.

dependencies {
    compile project(':myproject').war.outputs.files
}

Edit: To clarify, compile probably isn't the best configuration to add this dependency to, this is just an example. If indeed all this project is doing is aggregating dependencies into a single distribution archive then the configuration is likely irrelevant.

Upvotes: 0

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