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aacanakin
aacanakin

Reputation: 2913

Configuring the compile path of sbt-less plugin

I'm using play framework with this plugin. I have the following structure for public folder;

├───app
│   ├───css
│   ├───img
│   ├───js
│   │   ├───apis
│   │   ├───config
│   │   ├───controllers
│   │   ├───directives
│   │   ├───filters
│   │   ├───locale
│   │   └───services
│   └───views
└───test

In build.sbt, I have the following;

includeFilter in (Assets, LessKeys.less) := "*.less"

excludeFilter in (Assets, LessKeys.less) := "_*.less"

LessKeys.rootpath in Assets := "public/app/css"

In my main.scala.html, I have the following link tag;

<link rel="stylesheet" href='@routes.Assets.at("app/css/main.css")'>

And lastly, my routes has the following;

GET      /assets/*file             controllers.Assets.at(path="/public", file)

However, less configuration in build.sbt doesn't seem to work. I want to compile public/app/css/main.less. How can I achieve this ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 453

Answers (2)

Serhii Sokolenko
Serhii Sokolenko

Reputation: 6174

The default path to assets defined in the SbtWeb plugin is: app/assets:

sourceDirectory in Assets := (sourceDirectory in Compile).value / "assets"

so it can easily be overridden:

sourceDirectory in Assets := (sourceDirectory in Compile).value / "path" / "to" / "assets"

Upvotes: 0

Michael Zajac
Michael Zajac

Reputation: 55569

According to the Play documentation:

Compilable assets in Play must be defined in the app/assets directory.

And the sbt-less readme:

Set rootpath for url rewriting in relative imports and urls.

It seems like there is no way to do this, as Play needs a place where it can expect compilable assets and not Scala/Java code. The rootpath key appears to just be for re-writing imports/urls in LESS files.

What you need is:

├───app
│   ├───assets
│   │   ├───css
│   │   ├───img
│   │   └───js
│   │       ├───apis
│   │       ├───config
│   │       ├───controllers
│   │       ├───directives
│   │       ├───filters
│   │       ├───locale
│   │       └───services
│   └───views
└───test

Upvotes: 1

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