Custom plugin task to create a zip of the source code in gradle

Question

I am writing the below code to get the zip of my android project source code.

 project.task("myTask", type:Zip){
        baseName = "outputs"
        from (project.rootDir){
            include ('*')
            from ('gradle/wrapper/'){ include ('*') }
            exclude 'build/','.gradle/','.idea/','*.iml'
            from (project.projectDir)
            {
                include ('libs/')
                include ('*')
                exclude ('build/','*.iml')
                include ('src/**/*')
            }
            from ('gradle/')
            { include('*') }
        }
        destinationDir project.rootProject.buildDir
    }

This produces a source zip containing all the files. However, there is one correction that is required here. I want the subproject to include all the files in it inside my zip as in the directory structure should remain intact. But right now I get the empty project folder and its content outside that folder which changes its directory structure. Can anyone tel how to get that. Thanks in advace!!

Why zip and not jar? The jar task with very little modification can already produce a `sources` jar that contains all your project source and resource files. see here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11474729/how-to-build-sources-jar-with-gradle — RaGe, Feb 11 '16 at 00:52
I want a zip of the sourcecode. There is another link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4822521/how-do-i-produce-a-zip-of-my-source-using-gradle?rq=1 . I tried this but the only difference Is I am using a custom plugin project and not directly using this my build.gradle. In my case, if I use the solution given in this link, it gives me error that it cannot recognize the property classifier. — sver, Feb 11 '16 at 03:58
Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4822521/how-do-i-produce-a-zip-of-my-source-using-gradle — Balaji Katika, Feb 11 '16 at 06:17
No, This is the same link I have shared above. I have tried this, doesn't work for me. Mostly because I am calling the custom plugin task from a different project. — sver, Feb 11 '16 at 06:23
I get an error : Could not find property 'sourceSets' on task ':network:makeSourceZipPlugin' — sver, Feb 12 '16 at 05:11

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 04 '16 at 10:43

I found no help in case of custom plugin. There were few solutions I found but nothing worked in my case .Finally, this worked for me :

Task taskSourceZip = project.task("makeSourceZip", type:Zip){
        baseName = "source"
        from (project.rootDir){
            exclude ('*/*.iml')
            exclude 'sourceZip.zip'
        }
        destinationDir project.rootDir
    }

Custom plugin task to create a zip of the source code in gradle

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