How can I manipulate a ProcessResources task so that it honors excludes properly?

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Hi guys!

I have a project with several source sets, all containing resources. Within these resources are files with the suffix ‘.utf8’. What I want is to filter these files during resource processing and replace all non-ascii characters with the escaped unicode version (as in ant.native2ascii). I also want to rename these files after the process by cutting of the ‘.utf8’ suffix. I finally came up with this code:

project.sourceSets.each { s ->
    project.tasks.getByName(s.processResourcesTaskName) { task ->
        task.from(s.resources.srcDirs) {
            include '**/*.utf8'
            filter(EscapeUnicode)
            rename '(.*).utf8', '$1'
        }
        task.from(s.resources.srcDirs) {
            exclude '**/*.utf8'
        }
        task.doLast {
            FileTree tree = fileTree (dir: task.destinationDir);
            tree = tree.matching {
                include '**/*.utf8'
            }
            tree.each { File file ->
                delete(file)
            }
        }
    }
}

I would like to get rid of the doLast block. I though that my exclude block would be enough, but unfortunately that’s not true. If I remove the doLast block, I am ending up with the proper filtered file together with an unfiltered ‘.utf8’ version of the file side by side. The exclude block simply doesn’t work. I tried this solution declarative with one of my resource tasks and in this case, the exclude block is honored. So the problem is prolly that I am already in the execution phase?

So my question: What’s a better way to do this without declaring the same block of code for every of my resource tasks?

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The problem with your code is that it adds further copy actions on top of the existing ones. Instead try something like:

tasks.withType(ProcessResources) {
    filesMatching("**/*.utf8") {
        filter(EscapeUnicode)
        name = name[0..-6]
    }
}