Remove default Jar artifact

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1

Hi all,

I’m bit confused about behaviour of my gradle build. I’m trying to create simple build file which would do following (as experiment): 1, take configuration folder 2, package it into Zip format 3, upload Zip to nexus

However, I got stuck on default Jar artifact which gets uploaded together with my Zip. Is there a way how to tell gradle, that all I really want to do, is simply upload Zip and nothing else? (I have no Jar task defined in my build, only Zip)

apply plugin: 'java'
  defaultTasks 'createZip'
  def resultZipName = 'myzip'
def resultZipDir = '/zip'
  repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}
  dependencies {
    // for testing transitive dependencies
    compile 'org.hibernate:hibernate-core:4.1.7.Final'
}
  task createZip(type: Zip) {
    from '/'
    include 'conf/**'
    include 'build.gradle'
    setBaseName(resultZipName)
    destinationDir = file(resultZipDir)
}
  artifacts {
    archives createZip
}
  task cleanZip(type: Delete) {
    delete resultZipDir
}
  uploadArchives {
    repositories {
        maven {
            credentials {
                username 'admin'
                password 'admin123'
            }
            name = 'nexus-local'
            url = 'http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/'
        }
   }
}
  Results in following:
:createZip
:compileJava UP-TO-DATE
:processResources UP-TO-DATE
:classes UP-TO-DATE
:jar UP-TO-DATE
:uploadArchives
Upload to http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots//gradle/unspecified/Gradle-unspecified.jar
Upload to http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots//gradle/unspecified/Gradle-unspecified.jar.sha1
Upload to http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots//gradle/unspecified/gradle-zip-unspecified.zip
Upload to http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots//gradle/unspecified/gradle-zip-unspecified.zip.sha1
Upload to http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots//gradle/unspecified/ivy-unspecified.xml
Upload to http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots//gradle/unspecified/ivy-unspecified.xml.sha1
2

Well if you apply the java plugin, Gradle assumes you have some java source files that you would like to compile, package and upload as a jar archive. If you only need to package some configuration files, then you could apply just the base plugin to get the ‘archives’ configuration and ‘uploadArchives’ task.

3

Many thanks for quick answer Detelin. I managed to bypass applying java plugin, and therefore I was able to specify only ZIP archive as build artifact. Following build.gradle file uploads only single Zip archive specified for archives configuration.

apply plugin: 'maven'
  def resultZipName = 'myGradleModule'
def resultZipDir = '/myZipDir'
  group = 'gradle.test'
version = '1.0'
  uploadArchives {
    repositories {
        maven {
            credentials {
                username 'admin'
                password 'admin123'
            }
            name = 'nexus-local'
            url = 'http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/'
        }
    }
}
  task createZip(type: Zip) {
    from '/'
    include 'conf/**'
    include 'build.gradle'
    include 'settings.gradle'
    setBaseName(resultZipName)
    destinationDir = file(resultZipDir)
}
  artifacts {
    archives createZip
}

Please note, you also need to specify settings.gradle file in your build directory, if you wish to name your artifact differently from directory name, your build file is in. settings.gradle:

rootProject.name = "zipArtifact"