[gradle-user] Filtering Files in a Build

[Neil Chaudhuri]

I am an experienced Java developer and Maven user, and I am evaluating Gradle 
for a possible transition. So far I have my multi-module project building 
nicely and quite cleanly, and I have figured out how to get my configuration 
files to be filtered via the ReplaceTokens filter as follows:

task filter(type: Copy) {
  from 'src/main/resources'
  into 'build/classes/main'
  filter ReplaceTokens, tokens: [
          timestamp: new Date().dateTimeString,
          url: "http://localhost:8080/myapp ",
.
.
.
  ]
}

Things work just fine when I call filter directly, but calling build doesn't 
call filter. As a result, the project is built with the files unfiltered. Can 
you provide some insight on the configuration I need to add to make sure my 
filter task is called as part of the build task?

Thanks.