>I ended up having to use ant.copy instead of the copy task as the copyTask doesn't support includeFile.
Interesting - why cannot you use include / exclude of the copy spec? Cheers! On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:14 PM, phil swenson <[email protected]> wrote: > I had to use this syntax instead: > compileJava.dependsOn("copySources") > > but works, thanks! > > I ended up having to use ant.copy instead of the copy task as the > copyTask doesn't support includeFile. Here is what I ended up with: > > task copySources << { > ant.copy(todir: "build/tmp/mapiToCompile") { > fileset(dir: "/Users/phil/dev/sag/optimize/trunk/src/java/core") { > includesfile(name: > "/Users/phil/dev/sag/optimize/trunk/build/dependencies/compile/mapi.txt") > excludesfile(name: > > "/Users/phil/dev/sag/optimize/trunk/build/dependencies/compile/mapi-exclude.txt") > } > } > } > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Adam Murdoch > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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' > > > > -- > > Adam Murdoch > > Gradle Co-founder > > http://www.gradle.org > > VP of Engineering, Gradleware Inc. - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting > > http://www.gradleware.com > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > > -- Szczepan Faber Principal engineer@gradleware Lead@mockito
