Any ideas how to convert this Groovy snippet to Gr...

# gradle

[Darryl Miles]

Any ideas how to convert this Groovy snippet to Gradle 8.5 Kotlin DSL, for a WAR project ?

task explodedWar(type: Sync) {
    into "${buildDir}/libs/exploded/yourWar.war"
    with war
}

// my efforts get to
tasks.register<Sync>("explodedWar") {
    into("${layout.buildDirectory}/libs/exploded/yourWar.war")
    with(war)
    //   ^^^ --- red error markers
}

// can't find anything with the correct type on content assist

It wants a CopySpec which I assume needs to be all the standard outputs in the WAR tree format
There is an implicit configuration called archives that produces the non-exploded WAR file. So this must clear have configuration with all the data in some format necessary (input file -> output file, mappings)
Without the with() part, nothing appears to happen, I also don't get the default configuration action for archives anymore, when really I would like it to always emit the standard output artifacts, but in addition produce an exploded.

[Szymon Jeziorski]

This looks like a solution to your problem
https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-to-create-an-exploded-war-with-kotlin-dsl/35403

[Vampire]

The war you marked is in Groovy DSL simply a reference to the task called war that in itself is also a CopySpec. So what you are after should be with(tasks.war.get())

[Darryl Miles]

That is the one, all I could find in research are many-many versions using Groovy,
For anyone following I have it working as:

tasks.register<Copy>("explodedWar") {
    into(layout.buildDirectory.dir("libs/exploded"))
    with(tasks.war.get())
}

Thanks for the replies.

[Vampire]

-Copy
+`Sync`

[Vampire]

You seldomly want a Copy task you practically always want Sync

[Darryl Miles]

Ah thanks for that tip as well. Now I have the recipe to get output, just battling with the exact layout I am after in final EAR/WAR/etc.. for development deployment on the specific app-server from IDEA.
Was going to circle back (after it is working) to understand Copy/Sync better.
But currently reading up on 'configurations' and 'artifacts' as trying to exclude the exploded from the configuration="artifacts", and only have contents appear for configuration="exploded". In Ear using deploy(path=":war", configuration="exploded") and want to allow switching there as well. Expecting "artifacts" to be the standard single file *.war, while "exploded" to be the entire contents of the libs/exploded directory.
Then a toplevel gradle.properties to globally disable for CI.