Build Automation

Copying files in Gradle is very intuitive. It’s easy enough to filter out unwanted files using the exclude pattern. Example (see documentation): task copyTaskWithPatterns(type: Copy) { from ‘src/main/webapp’ into ‘build/explodedWar’ include ‘**/*.html’ include ‘**/*.jsp’ exclude { details -> details.file.name.endsWith(‘.html’) && details.file.text.contains(‘staging’) } } The problem occurs, when you only want to copy specific files and…

Gradle is smart enough to skip running tasks if there haven’t been any changes compared to the previous build. This post shows how to override the default optimisation to ensure the given task is executed every single time. Let’s create a sample project: mkdir hello-gradle && cd $_ && gradle init –type java-library Build it:…

Building of a Gradle project yields the following warning: :compileJavawarning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 1.7 1 warning That happens whenever the project is compiled to be compatible with an older Java version compared to the installed JDK (Java 8 in my case). build.gradle apply plugin: ‘java’ sourceCompatibility = 1.7 … The warning…

There is a great article about the Buildship project providing “deep integration of Gradle into Eclipse”. True, the plugin is great and gives you all the means to run your project from within the IDE. The only downside is the build script editor, or rather the lack of it. The build script is treated as a plain text…