Gradle Cargo Plugin configuration example for isolated containers

build.gradle

def availablePortFinder = AvailablePortFinder.createPrivate()
def tomcatDownloadUrl = 'http://.../apache-tomcat-7.0.50.zip'
def cargoHome = "$buildDir/cargo"

// ...

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath 'org.gradle.api.plugins:gradle-cargo-plugin:1.4.5'
    }
}

apply plugin: 'cargo'

cargo {
	containerId = 'tomcat7x'
	deployable {
		// ...
	}
	local {
		homeDir 	= file(cargoHome)
		configHomeDir 	= file(cargoHome)
		installer {
			installUrl  = tomcatDownloadUrl
			downloadDir = file("$buildDir/download")
			extractDir  = file("$buildDir/extract")
		}
		containerProperties {
			property 'cargo.servlet.port', availablePortFinder.nextAvailable
			property 'cargo.tomcat.ajp.port', availablePortFinder.nextAvailable
			property 'cargo.rmi.port', availablePortFinder.nextAvailable
		}
	}
}

task createCargoHome() {
  doLast {
    if (!file(cargoHome).exists() && !file(cargoHome).mkdirs()) {
      println "Failed to create directory '${cargoHome}'"
    }
  }
}

cargoStartLocal.finalizedBy cargoStopLocal
cargoStartLocal.dependsOn createCargoHome

// ...

Thanks for the example. I tried to use it, but I couldn't get it to work.

I had to fill in a few things to get as far as I did:

def tomcatDownloadUrl = 'http://mirror.ventraip.net.au/apache/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.55/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.55.zip'

...
dependencies {
  def cargoVersion = '1.4.8'
  cargo "org.codehaus.cargo:cargo-core-uberjar:$cargoVersion",
      "org.codehaus.cargo:cargo-ant:$cargoVersion"
}

I also had to change the version of gradle-cargo-plugin to 1.4.1 or 1.5, because 1.4.5 could not be found.

But either way, I get this error:

Cannot get property 'canonicalPath' on null object