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javagradleclasspathbuild.gradle
Omar Darwish
Omar Darwish

Reputation: 1655

Gradle - add directory to classpath

My application requires that a \config directory be available on the classpath when it looks for configurations files under the directory. I currently have dependencies configured like so, though this is probably not the correct way to make a directory available to my application:

dependencies {
    ... //runtime, compile dependencies pulled from repositories
    runtime files('config')
}

I am using the application plugin to create a standalone zip for my project. If my \config directory has \config\subdir, file1, file2, then the plugin produces a build\install directory with the following structure:

| build
| --|install
| ----|bin
| ------ projectName
| ------ projectName.bat
| ----|lib
| ------ dependency1.jar
| ------ dependency2.jar
| ------|subdir
| ------ file1
| ------ file2

This does not work for my application because it explicitly expects a \config directory

However, this is the directory structure that I need:

| build
| --|install
| ----|bin
| ------ projectName
| ------ projectName.bat
| ----|lib
| ------ dependency1.jar
| ------ dependency2.jar
| ----|config
| ------|subdir
| ------ file1
| ------ file2

How can I make gradle add another directory to the build and specify it as part of the classpath for the generated startup scripts?

Upvotes: 31

Views: 84067

Answers (3)

Pijush
Pijush

Reputation: 435

jar {
    manifest {
        attributes('Class-Path' : '<directory>' )
    }
}

The above worked for me

Upvotes: 1

Andy Malakov
Andy Malakov

Reputation: 857

You may try this:

project('project-name') {
   apply plugin: 'application'
   mainClassName = "your.main.Class"

   startScripts {
       classpath += files('src/dist/lib/conf')
   }

More information can be found here.

Upvotes: 7

RaGe
RaGe

Reputation: 23795

The application plugin documentation says:

Static files to be added to the distribution can be simply added to src/dist

I would try putting your config directory into src/dist/lib and continue adding it to your classpath with runtime files('src/dist/lib/config')

Note: working around this defect means that config has to go into /lib under src/dist

Upvotes: 10

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