Gradle plugin to generate pom.xml

Question

I've used gradle plugin to generate pom.xml.

following correspond documentation I've added to may project into build.gradle file next changes:

task writePom {
    doLast {
        pom {
            project {
                inceptionYear '2008'
                licenses {
                    license {
                        name 'The Apache Software License, Version 2.0'
                        url 'http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt'
                        distribution 'repo'
                    }
                }
            }
        }.writeTo("pom.xml")
    }
}

after that I used gradle writePom and as result I've got generated pom.xml in my project root directory.

The issue is I can not build project using the pom.xml because of:

> maven clean install

[ERROR] /Users/XXX/Documents/projects/workspace/THE_PROJECT/src/main/java/CLASS_PACKAGE/THE_CLASS.java:[45,38] diamond operator is not supported in -source 1.5

(use -source 7 or higher to enable diamond operator)

The issue reason is completely clear. My pom.xml should use valid java version but the java version isn't generated in it.

How should I configure the plugin (for gradle) to generate pom.xml with specified java version?

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build.gradle

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath group: 'pl.allegro.tech.build', name: 'axion-release-plugin', version: '1.7.1'
        classpath 'org.hidetake:gradle-ssh-plugin:1.1.3'
    }
}

plugins {
    id "nebula.provided-base" version "3.0.3"
}

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'java-library'
apply plugin: 'groovy'
apply plugin: 'osgi'
apply plugin: 'maven'
apply plugin: 'maven-publish'
apply plugin: 'jacoco'
apply plugin: 'signing'
apply plugin: 'pl.allegro.tech.build.axion-release'
apply plugin: 'nebula.optional-base'
apply from: 'gradle/dist.gradle'

group = 'org.mnode.ical4j'
description = '''
A Java library for reading and writing iCalendar (*.ics) files
'''

sourceCompatibility = 1.7
targetCompatibility = 1.7
ext {
    slf4jVersion = '1.7.10'
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    api "org.slf4j:slf4j-api:$slf4jVersion",
        'commons-codec:commons-codec:1.9',
        'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.3.2',
        'org.apache.commons:commons-collections4:4.0',
        'org.threeten:threetenbp:1.3.3'

    compile 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all:2.3.2', optional

    compileOnly 'biz.aQute.bnd:bndlib:2.3.0'

    testImplementation 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all:2.3.2',
        'org.spockframework:spock-core:0.7-groovy-2.0',
        'commons-io:commons-io:2.4',
        'org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup:tagsoup:1.2.1',
        "org.slf4j:slf4j-log4j12:$slf4jVersion"
}

jacocoTestReport {
    reports {
        xml.enabled true
        html.enabled false
    }
}

javadoc {
    if (JavaVersion.current().isJava8Compatible()) {
        options.addStringOption('Xdoclint:none', '-quiet')
    }
}

task javadocJar(type: Jar, dependsOn: javadoc) {
    classifier = 'javadoc'
    from 'build/docs/javadoc'
}

task sourcesJar(type: Jar) {
    from sourceSets.main.allSource
    classifier = 'sources'
}

jar {
    manifest {
        instruction 'Import-Package', 'groovy.*;resolution:=optional, org.codehaus.groovy*;resolution:=optional, *'
    }
}

artifacts {
    archives jar
    archives javadocJar
    archives sourcesJar
}

signing {
    required { isReleaseVersion && gradle.taskGraph.hasTask("uploadArchives") }
    sign configurations.archives
}

scmVersion {
    tag {
        prefix = 'ical4j'
    }
    versionCreator 'versionWithBranch'
    branchVersionCreator = [
        'master': 'simple'
    ]
}
version = scmVersion.version

ext {
    isReleaseVersion = !version.endsWith("SNAPSHOT")
}

task writePom {
    doLast {
        pom {
            project {
                inceptionYear '2008'
                licenses {
                    license {
                        name 'The Apache Software License, Version 2.0'
                        url 'http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt'
                        distribution 'repo'
                    }
                }
            }
        }.writeTo("pom.xml")
    }
}

Answer 1

You can specify the Java version with the target command:

targetCompatibility = '1.7'

Try with this code:

apply plugin: 'java'
compileJava {
  sourceCompatibility = '1.7'
}

For more info visit this post:

how specify the required java version in a gradle build?