Hi,
I am using the war plugin for a project, and I am trying to add some files to
the war file's WEB-INF/classes directory. The files I'm targeting exist within
the project, but outside the webAppDirName for the war. I do not want to add
the entire directory tree since there are subdirectories that should not be
included. My war task config looks like:
war {
classpath fileTree(dir: 'src/conf', include: '*')
}
The files in src/conf are .properties files (ie, not .zip or .jar). These files
end up in the WEB-INF/lib directory of the war file, not the WEB-INF/classes
dir. The docs for the war task say:
Any JAR or ZIP files in this classpath are included in the WEB-INF/lib
directory. Any directories in this classpath are included in the
WEB-INF/classes directory.
It doesn't say what happens to files that are not JAR or ZIP files. But it
appears *any* file added to the classpath ends up in the WEB-INF/lib directory.
I get the same results with any of the following two variations:
war {
classpath fileTree(dir: 'src/conf', include: '*').files
}
war {
fileTree(dir: 'src/conf', include: '*').each {
classpath it
}
}
The following variation works in that it puts the files under WEB-INF/classes,
but it includes the subdirectories as well.
war {
classpath 'src/conf'
}
The behavior is consistent in that whenever I specify the directory (without
restricting it from being recursive), the files (including subdirectories) end
up in WEB-INF/classes. In all cases when I restrict the file selection to just
the base directory (not rescursive), then they end up in WEB-INF/lib.
Am I correct in thinking this is a bug? I plan to create a JIRA issue for this,
but I wanted to run it by this group first for input.
Thanks,
Darren Evenson
Director of IT
ClickIQ, Inc.<http://www.clickiqinc.com/>
