In a project with the war plugin applied, tasks that take src/main/webapp as an input directory fail to correctly watch this directory when run as a dependency of the classes task. There’s probably a non-plugin-specific cause, but I can’t pinpoint it.
Gradle Version: 2.11 through 3.1
Last worked correctly in: 2.10
Operating System and JVM version: Arch Linux 64-bit, OpenJDK 1.8.0_102
Related to: GRADLE-3415
To reproduce:
- Clone https://github.com/delego-wlritchi/gradle-watch-bug
- Run
./gradlew classes -t - In a new terminal, modify a file under src/main/webapp. Observe that the build is not retriggered.
- Now modify the toplevel file. Observe that the build is retriggered as expected.
This bug appears to be related to GRADLE-3415, especially as it was introduced in the same version. However, the fix in 2.13 did not resolve this bug.