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John M
John M

Reputation: 320

Gradle include outside resource including the containing folder

I am converting a project built with Ant to use Gradle. The project looks something like

root
|-RelevantProject
...
|-LotsOfOtherSubprojects
...
|-Resources
|--resources
|---subfolder
|----bunchOfProps.properties

The code references these as Resources/resources/subfolder/bunchOfProps.properties. This code and the folder structure cannot be changed as the ant scripts need to keep functioning

I have attempted to include this as

sourceSets {
    main {
        resources {
            srcDir '../Resources'
        }
    }
}

Which fails as the code top level folder is now cut off. The code would work if looking for resources/subfolder/bunchOfProps.properties.

I have also attempted compile files('../Resources') with the same problem. Hard to say as this one did not appear in the Build directory. compile fileTree(dir: '../', include: '**/*.properties'), which I hoped would just pick up the relevant files also did not show up in the build directory.

Simply using the root directory as a resource folder caused problems as it included other projects and even the .gradle directory. I haven't yet gotten it to compile this way. Not sure yet if I can exclude enough things to get this to work.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 933

Answers (2)

Bjørn Vester
Bjørn Vester

Reputation: 7590

PrasadU's answer is sort-of correct, but it breaks up-to-date checking as it introduces a task where the output overlaps with the one from processResources. It is better to just reconfigure the latter task instead:

processResources {
    from(projectDir) {
        include("Resources/**")
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

PrasadU
PrasadU

Reputation: 2438

if you just need to copy the files

ext.prjRoot = project.projectDir.toString()

task copyExtResources(type: Copy) {
    from prjRoot
    include "Resources/**"
    into "$buildDir/resources/main"
}

processResources.dependsOn copyExtResources

Upvotes: 0

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