Add files to conf directory from IntelliJ

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#1

I have some JasperReports I want to persist.

At the moment I have to save them in the \deploy\tomcat\conf\app-core\reports directory and access them with:

stream = resources.getResourceAsStream("/reports/myreport.jrxml")

Every time the app is started it obviously rebuilds the tomcat directories.

Is it possible to have them in a folder within intelliJ and have them created each time the app is deployed?

#2

You can add some action to the end of any Gradle task including deploy, for example:

task deploy(dependsOn: [assemble, cleanConf], type: CubaDeployment) {
    appName = 'app-core'
    appJars('app-global', 'app-core')
}

deploy.doLast {
    copy {
        from "$rootProject.rootDir/etc/foo.txt"
        into "$cuba.tomcat.dir/conf/app-core"
    }
}

Also notice that deploy task depends on clearConf, so the whole content of conf is cleared except the files listed in the task’s exclude parameter.

#3

Awesome, thanks Konstantin that works perfectly.
I noticed that if I create a folder in my project folder, e.g. E:/Cuba/MyProject/MyFolder it will copy all contents to the conf/app-core directory upon build which works better for me (so I don’t have to do it for every file, but instead copy all files from the folder).

deploy.doLast { 
    copy { 
        from "E:/Cuba/MyProject/MyFolder" 
        into "$cuba.tomcat.dir/conf/app-core" 
    } 
}

Thanks again!

#4

Sure, you can find a lot of options in Gradle docs: CopySpec (Gradle API 3.4)