Make a simple JAR in gradle

Question

I am new to gradle builds. I wrote a custom service for cloudera manager which needs to build a JAR file with few directories. It is a simple archive file with few directories(descriptor, images and scripts). I created it with below jar command manually.

jar -cf CSDNAME.jar descriptor images scripts

Now I want to include this as part of gradle build for which I need to write a task. I searched online where I found java related stuff which is not required in my case. Can someone help with this?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 03 '19 at 16:32

That's a code snippet using the kotlin dsl. It's based on the JAR task of the java plugin.

plugins {
    java
}    

tasks.jar {
  doFirst {
    archiveBaseName.set("CSDNAME") // By default the JAR will have the project name
    from("content") // source folder where you have your content
  }
}

N.B: If you already have a build file, you will need to change its extension to .kts, else you'll need of course to create one.

Make a simple JAR in gradle

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