hello,
i'm a gradle newb. first of all i'd like to say thank you for gradle.
i'm trying to write a task that creates a set of zip files, one per
environment. something like this:
task packageEnvironments {
description = "Package environment-specific artifacts."
doLast {
['branch', 'stage', 'production', 'released'].each { envName ->
println "Packaging runtime environment: ${envName}"
zip {
appendix = envName
into "catalina/${envName}"
from "env/webapp/${envName}/catalina"
into('lib') {
from configurations.deploy2CatalinaLib
}
}
}
}
}
except that, unlike the project.copy() action, there's no
project.zip() action. i sure would like one.
further, i can't even figure out *how* to do this in gradle without
a zip action.
so far, i'm trying to coerce a task as an action like this:
task packageEnvironments {
description = "Package environment-specific artifacts."
doLast {
task zipIt(type: Zip)
['branch', 'stage', 'production', 'released'].each { envName ->
println "Packaging runtime environment: ${envName}"
zipIt.configure {
appendix = envName
into "catalina/${envName}"
from "env/webapp/${envName}/catalina"
into('lib') {
from configurations.deploy2CatalinaLib
}
}
zipIt.execute()
}
}
}
and it doesn't work. it produces the first zip file, but is a no-op
for the remainder
(perhaps because the inputs/outputs have already been set and perhaps are
immutable and so the next time around it figures the task is
perhaps up to date?).
my experience *so far* with gradle is wonderful, with this one exception.
the main disconnect i have is wanting to compose tasks,
wanting to invoke a task or think of a task as a function or something
one can parameterize. but can't. perhaps i shouldn't and that's fine.
but sometimes there are all these tasks that one just wants to execute
and can't because they're not executable like functions are.
perhaps what i'm asking for is action versions of the various tasks
that gradle exposes? i.e. a copy action (we have), a zip action (is
there such
a thing?), an exec action (?)..
often i find myself falling back to using an antbuilder task even when
a gradle equivalent exists because i can treat an ant task as an action,
something i can invoke with its configurations as arguments. i.e. i
often cannot
figure out how to use the gradle equivalent properly.
anyhow, thanks in advance for any help figuring out how to get this 'zip in
a for loop' task working.
/ eitan
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