Unable to configure logging in dropwizard. Could not resolve type id 'console' - gradle

Question

I am trying to configure console appender in my project. It works fine when I launch my app in debug locally. However, when I build it my jar in Gradle and launch it as a standalone app I get following error:
[0]; Could not resolve type id 'console' into a subtype of [simple type, class io.dropwizard.logging.AppenderFactory]: known type ids = [AppenderFactory]
Here is the snippet of my .yml file:
logging:
appenders:
- type: console
timeZone: UTC
logFormat: '%-5level [%date{ISO8601}] [%X{requestId}] %c: %msg%n%rootException'
I was able to find posts about similar issues. For instance, this thread here suggests to check if file META-INF/services/io.dropwizard.logging.AppenderFactory is in the application jar and if it contents is as following:
io.dropwizard.logging.ConsoleAppenderFactory
io.dropwizard.logging.FileAppenderFactory
io.dropwizard.logging.SyslogAppenderFactory
I have verified it. In my case file is where it supposed to be and it has exactly the same contents.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Dropwizard version 0.9.2

Answer 1

Does the Gradle produce a Uber/Fat Jar (A jar with all it's dependencies inside itself) or a simple jar with only your Dropwizard app?
It's advisable to build an Fat-jar for Dropwizard deployments, so do switch over to this style if you're not doing so.
Now while building a Fat-Jar, you need to do the following to solve your problem (this was mentioned in the discussion you linked)
If you use maven-shade plugin for building a fat jar, don't forget about SPI resource transformer for collecting SPI resources into the jar.
<transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer"/>
To do the same in Gradle, check this discussion.
HTH.