Gradle DeploymentDescriptor EAR Plugin

gradle-deployment-descriptor-ear-plugin.md

Gradle DeploymentDescriptor EAR Plugin

Use this Gradle plugin to directly access the DeploymentDescriptor class internal to the EAR plugin.

// custom Gradle task for creating EAR deployment descriptors (i.e. application.xml)
// author: cmcginty@akimeka.com
import org.gradle.api.*
import org.gradle.api.file.*
import org.gradle.api.tasks.*
import org.gradle.api.tasks.incremental.*
import org.gradle.util.*

import org.gradle.internal.reflect.Instantiator
import org.gradle.plugins.ear.descriptor.DeploymentDescriptor
import org.gradle.plugins.ear.descriptor.internal.DefaultDeploymentDescriptor

import javax.inject.Inject

class AkiDeploymentDescriptor extends DefaultTask {
  DeploymentDescriptor deploymentDescriptor

  @Input
  Collection properties = []

  @OutputDirectory
  File destDir = temporaryDir

  @Inject
  protected Instantiator getInstantiator() {
    throw new GradleException()
  }

  AkiDeploymentDescriptor deploymentDescriptor(Closure configureClosure) {
    if (!this.deploymentDescriptor) {
      this.deploymentDescriptor = instantiator.newInstance(
                                        DefaultDeploymentDescriptor.class,
                                        project.fileResolver,
                                        instantiator)
    }
    ConfigureUtil.configure(configureClosure, this.deploymentDescriptor)
    return this
  }

  @TaskAction
  def execute(IncrementalTaskInputs inputs) {
    deploymentDescriptor.writeTo( new File(this.destDir,deploymentDescriptor.fileName))
  }
}