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Manuel Jordan
Manuel Jordan

Reputation: 16271

Gradle - War task: how include into the .war file a specific file from a specific path

I am working with a multi module project.

The following is mandatory

apply plugin: 'war'

project(':thymeleaf-02-web') {

    description 'Web (HTML, JS, CSS)'

    dependencies {

        exportedProjects.each{
            if("$it"!=":thymeleaf-02-web")
                compile project("$it")
        }

    }

    webAppDirName = 'src/main/resources'

    war {
        version=''
        baseName = warBaseName
    }

}

The value for webAppDirName with src/main/resources is totally mandatory, it is not the expected working about with the WEB-INF location, because I am working with Thymeleaf, otherwise many @Test methods fail, it about Testing @Controller about Spring.

Now I have the mandatory case that I need for the web app the web.xml file to configure the <error-page>. It is located as usual within the src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/ location, but when I create the .war file and it is deployed the web.xml never was taken in consideration and thus is not included.

I have tried the following addition:

dependencies {

    compile fileTree(dir: "src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/", include: 'web.xml')
    runtime fileTree(dir: "src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/", include: 'web.xml')


    exportedProjects.each{
        if("$it"!=":thymeleaf-02-web")
            compile project("$it")
    }

}

But nothing. For the moment I must copy/paste manually the web.xml file into the deployed .war file.

Thus what is the correct configuration?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2257

Answers (1)

schmolly159
schmolly159

Reputation: 3881

Try using the from() call in your war block:

war {
    from('src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml') {
        into('WEB-INF')
    }
}

Upvotes: 3

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