On 05/08/2011, at 9:08 AM, phil swenson wrote:
> I want to hook in a doFirst closure to compileJava to copy my sources
> in from an external directory.
>
> This is problematic as the configuration phase will look to see if the
> sources need to be compiled first, won't find a directory and will
> bypass compile so my copy task doesn't execute.
>
> So is there a way to accomplish this?
Generally, you should use a separate task to do this sort of thing, and attach
a dependency between the two tasks.
task prepareSource(type: Copy) {
from 'wherever-the-source-is'
into 'some-source-dir'
}
compileJava {
dependsOn prepareSource
}
Another option is to simply add the external directory as a source directory:
sourceSets.main.java.srcDir 'whereever-the-source-is'
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