How do I add another project's build artifacts into a .war using gradle?

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Related to How do I add a .properties file into my WAR using gradle? but not quite:

I've got one project, call it 'webclient' that produces:

build/out/WEB-INF/deploy/foo
build/out/client/bar.js
build/out/clientDebug/baz.js

and then I've got a war project, call it 'server' that I'm trying to include the above into the a few different directories by doing:

war {
    from files(project(':webclient').file('build/out/WEB-INF')) {
        into('xxx')
    }
    from files(project(':webclient').file('build/out/client')) {
        into('yyy')
    }
    from files(project(':webclient').file('build/out/clientDebug')) {
        into('zzz')
    }
}

...but that doesn't work. I end up with all the contents under zzz/ ! Am I doing something wrong? bug in gradle (1.0-m6, btw)?

try nesting `from`s inside the `into`s instead. – rodion Dec 07 '11 at 23:33 — rodion, Dec 07 '11 at 23:33

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 23 '15 at 08:57

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I didn't digged deeper in the details, but the files() method seems to cause the problems here. The following workaround should do the trick for you:

war{     
    from (project(':shared').file('build/out/WEB-INF')) {    
        into('xxx')
    }
    from (project(':shared').file('build/out/client')) {
        into('yyy')
    }
    from (project(':shared').file('build/out/clientDebug')) {
        into('zzz')
    }
}

edited Jul 23 '15 at 08:57

zellus

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answered Dec 08 '11 at 14:58

Rene Groeschke

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Yes, and thanks! And note that the parenthesis around the arg to 'from' matter, for some reason. Clearly my understanding of groovy is lacking. – pjz Dec 08 '11 at 15:48

How do I add another project's build artifacts into a .war using gradle?

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