Gradle Copy task says no source
Your error is, that the Copy
task has a property called source
.
You give the toString()
representation of this property (which is file tree
) to the from
method.
There of course no WAR
files are found and thus the copy task has nothing to do.
Either rename your source
property to something different, or use project.source
to explicitly reference the source
property of the project instead of the one from the task.
Besides that into "${target}"
is identical to into target
but is more performant. source
and target
are already strings, but you use them as placeholders which means the placeholder needs to be evaluated first which doesn't make too much sense.
Consider this gradle.properties
:
srcDir=./dist
targetDir=./target
You can replace dist
and target
with your desired folders. Using srcDir
means that we won't collide with properties of the Copy
task.
Then, this build.gradle
:
task copyWar(type: Copy) {
from srcDir
into targetDir
include '*.war'
}
should work (it does for me).
Check very carefully that you do not have directory or file names misspelled. Gradle doesn't tell you what it didn't recognize, it just says
Task :xxx NO-SOURCE