Can't configure eclipse wtp component resource source path to use eclipse project linked resource

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Hi,

I have added two linked resources to my eclipse project file and I want to configure my deployment assembly to point to these two linked resources.

The following code sets up the linkedResource to the absolute path of the folders :

eclipse.project {    
    linkedResource name: 'project-java', type: '2', location: "$rootDir/project/src/main/java"
    linkedResource name: 'project-resources', type: '2', location: "$rootDir/project/src/main/resources"
}

I’ve tried adding these as source paths for wb-resource, however exectuing “gradle eclipseWtp” does not add the wb-resources. I believe this is because the source path is not found and as per the documentation will not be added.

eclipse.wtp.component { 
        // Required to preserve web app resource                 
        resource deployPath: '/', sourcePath: project.webAppDirName        
        resource deployPath: '/WEB-INF/classes', sourcePath: "/project-java"
        resource deployPath: '/', sourcePath: "/project-resources"                            
}

If however I change the source path to use an absolute path, the wb-resources appear in my org.elicpse.wst.common.component file.

eclipse.wtp.component { 
        // Required to preserve web app resource                 
        resource deployPath: '/', sourcePath: project.webAppDirName        
        resource deployPath: '/WEB-INF/classes', sourcePath: "$rootDir/project/src/main/java"
        resource deployPath: '/', sourcePath: "$rootDir/project/src/main/resources"                            
}

The problem at this point is that I get a validation error when I open the deployment assembly saying :
‘Cannot find entry: “D:/checkouts/project/src/main/java”.’

I’ve searched through the suggested similar topics and only found one unanswered topic.

Does anyone have a suggestion how to get the plugin to add these linked resources as entries to the wb-resources?

Thanks,
Ferg

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I would also be very interested in an answer to this!

3

Hi,

Giving my own thread a bump to see if anyone could even point me in the right direction for an answer. Currently with the way my solution works, it requires a manual step after the cleanEclipse eclipse has run which isn’t very useful.

Thanks in advance,
Ferg

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I’ve worked around this same issue with the following… using the XML hook to manually add it in…

eclipse {
	wtp {
		component {
			file {
				withXml {
					def node = it.asNode().children()[0]
					node.appendNode('wb-resource', ["deploy-path": '/', "source-path": '/core-webapp'])
				}
			}
		}
	}
}