Continuous Delivery pipeline - download from Artifactory - method war()

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1

I asked this question as a reply to the blog that introduced Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Gradle and Jenkins - https://discuss.gradle.org/t/building-a-continuous-delivery-pipeline-with-gradle-and-jenkins/9488 though with no reply I’m creating a separate topic for this.

At around 1:06 in this video is this gradle script to download from Artifactory:

configurations {
	war
}

dependencies {
	war "$project.group:$project.name:$project.version"
}

task downloadBinaryArchive(type: Copy) {
	from configurations.war
	into "$buildDir/download"
}

When I run this I get:

A problem occurred evaluating root project 'the_project'.
> Could not find method war() for arguments [the_group:the_project:1.0] on root project 'the_project'.

I have that code in my main build.gradle script that includes the war plugin.

What am I missing?

2

I get the impression that the example above (which I can find no issues with) is slightly different than how it is arranged in your actual build script. Are you perhaps trying to declare the configuration after the dependency?

3

No, the order I’ve written is what I have. If I remove the configuration part I still receive the same error - like the configuration isn’t being picked up.

Any other ideas?

4

I’ve gone back to basics. I created a new WEB Spring Starter project and inserted those same lines. There is NO LOCATION i can insert those lines that doesn’t give me that same error. Can you see what is wrong with this simple example?:

buildscript {
    ext {
        springBootVersion = '1.2.5.RELEASE'
    }
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:${springBootVersion}") 
        classpath("io.spring.gradle:dependency-management-plugin:0.5.2.RELEASE")
    }
}

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse-wtp'
apply plugin: 'idea'
apply plugin: 'spring-boot' 
apply plugin: 'io.spring.dependency-management' 
apply plugin: 'war'

version=1.0
group="tester"

war {
    baseName = 'demo'
    version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
}
sourceCompatibility = 1.8
targetCompatibility = 1.8


repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

configurations {
    providedRuntime
}

configurations {
 	war
}

dependencies {
	war "$project.group:$project.name:$project.version"
}

task downloadBinaryArchive(type: Copy) {
	from configurations.war
 	into "$buildDir/download"
}


dependencies {
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web")
    providedRuntime("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat")
    testCompile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test") 
}


eclipse {
    classpath {
         containers.remove('org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER')
         containers 'org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/JavaSE-1.8'
    }
}

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
    gradleVersion = '2.3'
}
5

Solved.

When I changed the configuration name from war to ANYTHING ELSE (except say resources and possibly other reserved words) it worked as expected. So this worked:

repositories {
    maven { url "${artifactory_contextUrl}/libs-release-local" }	
    mavenCentral()
}
configurations {
    downloadWar
}

dependencies {
	downloadWar(group: 'the_group', name: 'the_name', version: '1.0')
    // OR this of course
	downloadWar('the_group:the_name:1.0')
}

task downloadBinaryArchive(type: Copy) {
	from configurations.downloadWar
 	into "$buildDir/download"
}

NOTE that I needed to choose an artifact that exists in the artifactory repository or else I received an error about could not resolve all dependencies.

Now the question is, why does war configuration work for Peter N but not for I? I tried Gradle 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5.