How to delete an empty directory (or the directory with all contents recursively) in gradle? - gradle

Question

I can't figure out how to delete all contents of a directory.
For cleaning out a directory, I want to remove all files and directories inside it: I want to wipe everything there is inside (files and directories).
I tried this with the delete task, but I can't figure out to make it also remove directories and not just files. I've tried different ways to specify the directories, but nothing works.
task deleteGraphicsAssets(type:Delete) {
delete fileTree('src').include('**/*')
}
.
task deleteGraphicsAssets(type:Delete) {
delete fileTree('src').include('/')
}
.
task deleteGraphicsAssets(type:Delete) {
delete fileTree('src').include('*')
}
Any help appreciated!
Edit:
This works - yet it seems a bit like a hack.
task deleteGraphicsAssets(type: Delete) {
def dirName = "src"
delete dirName
doLast {
file(dirName).mkdirs()
}
}
I was looking for something like:
task deleteGraphicsAssets(type: Delete) {
deleteContentsOfDirectory "src"
}
or
task deleteGraphicsAssets(type: Delete) {
delete {dir : "src", keepRoot : true }
}

Answer 1

To delete the src directory and all its contents:
task deleteGraphicsAssets(type: Delete) {
delete "src"
}

Answer 2

At the risk of resurrecting an answered topic, there's a relatively easy way to do this.
This task will delete all files and directories under 'src' without traversing the file tree and without removing to 'src' dir
task deleteGraphicsAssets(type:Delete) {
delete file('src').listFiles()
}

Answer 3

Groovy enhances the File class with several methods. You can delete a directory with all it's subdirectories and files using deleteDir() method.
task deletebin << {
def binDir = new File('bin')
binDir.deleteDir()
}

Answer 4

Following will delete all content from the src folder but leaves the folder itself untouched:
task deleteGraphicsAssets(type: Delete) {
def dirName = "src"
file( dirName ).list().each{
f ->
delete "${dirName}/${f}"
}
}

Answer 5

clean {
delete += fileTree('src').include('**/*')
}
This 'clean' task's configuration seems to work.

Answer 6

Found using FileTree#visit worked.
ConfigurableFileTree ft = fileTree('someDir')
ft.include("xxx")
ft.exclude("yyy")
task delteFilesOnly() {
doLast {
//// for test
//ft.each { File file ->
// println "===== " + file.absolutePath
//}
delete ft
}
}
task deleteFilesAndDirs(){
doLast {
ft.visit { FileVisitDetails fvd ->
//// for test
//println "----- " + file.absolutePath
delete fvd.file
}
}
}