Thank you for the quick and helpful reply! Everything works fine now. Gradle
is very powerful, but the documentation must be a never ending task (and the
documentation is good). For those of us new to dependencies, and not used
to Maven, it can be a little confusing.
Thanks again,
-midnec
Adam Murdoch-2 wrote:
>
>
>
> midnec wrote:
>> I love gradle, but I have hit a problem. I am trying to execute an ant
>> target in a build.xml file from gradle.
>> When I execute the task from ant, it works. From gradle it does not
>> work.
>>
>> The build.gradle just imports the ant script (it is a sub-project). The
>> ant
>> task uses an optional ant task (sshexec). The error is that ant can't
>> find
>> the jar for the optional component.
>>
>>
>
> There's no really nice solution to this problem. Here are some potential
> work-arounds:
>
> An easy fix for this is to drop ant-jsch.jar and jsch.jar into
> $GRADLE_HOME/lib. This has a few problems, the main one in your case
> that it won't work with gradlew.
>
> Another option is to inject the JARs into the appropriate classloader.
> Here's some code to do this. You only need to do this in one project per
> build - the root project would be a good option:
>
> configurations { antssh }
> dependencies { antssh group: 'org.apache.ant', name: 'ant-jsch',
> version: '1.7.0' }
>
> configurations.antssh.each { File jar ->
> ant.getClass().classLoader.addURL(jar.toURL()) }
>
> This should work fine with gradle or gradlew.
>
> We will make it easier to use ant optional tasks in a later Gradle
> release. See http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRADLE-574
>
>
> Adam
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe from this list, please visit:
>
> http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
>
>
>
>
--
View this message in context:
http://www.nabble.com/optional-task-in-ant-build.xml-tp24726793p24738564.html
Sent from the gradle-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe from this list, please visit:
http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
