Can I use the application plugin to create environment specific distributions

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I’m using the application plugin to generate a standalone distributable for my java app - it’s almost perfect I just can’t figure out how to create environment specific distributions

Under my src/dist directory I have sub directories which separate config per environment, e.g.

src/dist/prod/config/… src/dist/test/config/…

When I execute gradle distZip I end up with all of these files in my distribution - as expected. I would like to be able to create environment specific distributions, so that when I execute something like: gradle prodDistZip I only get the files included under src/dist/prod (along with the rest of my application binaries)

After reading the documentation for the application plugin I can’t see any way this can be configured. Does anybody have any suggestions as to how it may be done?

Thanks Rob

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It’s probably worth mentioning I’m happy to move my configuration out of the dist folder, as the application plugin seems to just bundle this entire directory up by default

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Simplest way would probably be to use a project property. Adding additional tasks would likely just complicate your build script and still leave the default ‘dist*’ tasks which would create incorrect/incomplete distributions.

$ gradle -PbuildType=prod distZip

In build.gradle

applicationDistribution.exclude([‘prod’, ‘test’] - buildType)

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Thanks for the advice - worked great.