How to define where gwt compile`s result is put in war? about gwt-gradle-plugin HOT 3 CLOSED

The GwtCompile task could be changed to accept a relative path that specifies where the compiler output should be written in the out directory. But as the GWT compiler also generates stuff for WEB-INF (e.g. for GWT-RPC), this would lead to further issues I'd like to avoid.

The same applies for the second idea. If the path inside of the war is changed, the stuff to be written in WEB-INF ends up in the wrong location. So I think this is not something that can elegantly be solved by changing the GWT plugin.

So currently I only see a "special" solution for you:

1. The best would be to manipulate the CopySpec used in the war task to include the GWT compiler output. I'm currently not sure how to get this one from the war task... So this would need some research.
2. Moving the GWT compiler output by doing compileGwt.doLast {...} in your build script.

Solution 1. has the advantage that it causes zero performance overhead.
Solution 2. has the advantage that you can leave the WEB-INF folder where it is so that this wouldn't be broken. On the downside it needs some extra time to move the files. If you are one of the lucky guys who can use Java 7 functionality (at least in the build script), this won't be the big problem.

from gwt-gradle-plugin.

For the sake of archive here is what worked:

war {
def w = compileGwt.war
from(w) {
into('VAADIN/widgetsets')
excludes = ['WEB-INF']
}

eachFile {fileCopyDetails ->
    if (fileCopyDetails.path.startsWith(vaadinWidgetSet)) {
        fileCopyDetails.exclude()
    }
}

}

where vaadinWidgetSet is the package name (module) used by gwt task, also the dir under of which parts of compiled files are generated.

As always with gradle, there might be prettier solution though.

Thanks for pointing me the right direction!

from gwt-gradle-plugin.

If using GWT 2.7 and gwt-gradle-plugin 0.6 (not released yet), you can specify a path prefix:

gwt {
    gwtVersion='2.7.0'
    modules '<GWT-MODULE-NAME>'
    modulePathPrefix = "VAADIN"
}

from gwt-gradle-plugin.