Specify war in gradle's tomcatRunWar - gradle

Question

I'm playing with the tomcat plugin for gradle and in my build/tmp/tomcatRun/work/Tomcat/localhost/myWebApp directory its empty. Is there a way for me to specify the location of my war to deploy?
I tried
[tomcatRun, tomcatRunWar]*.destinationDir= new File("$buildDir/libs").getAbsoluteFile().getPath()
and
[tomcatRun, tomcatRunWar]*.warDirectory= new File("$buildDir/libs").getAbsoluteFile().getPath()
Update
I've added the build scripts below. When I run my new tasks I've been running
gradle build integrationTest
Here is a snippet from the parent build.gradle:
buildscript {
repositories {
add(new org.apache.ivy.plugins.resolver.URLResolver()) {
name = 'GitHub'
addArtifactPattern 'http://cloud.github.com/downloads/[organisation]/[module]/[module]-[revision].[ext]'
}
}
dependencies {
classpath 'bmuschko:gradle-tomcat-plugin:0.9.2'
}
}
allprojects {
apply plugin: "java"
apply plugin: "eclipse"
apply plugin: "idea"
ext.springVersion = "3.1.1.RELEASE"
ext.hibernateVersion = "3.6.7.Final"
ext.mysqlVersion = "5.1.20"
ext.tomcatVersion = "7.0.26"
ext.junitVersion = "4.10"
ext.httpClientVersion = "4.2"
ext.pdfboxVersion = "1.7.1"
ext.resxWebserviceVersion = "10.4.2"
loadConfiguration()
}
and my webapps build.gradle:
apply plugin: "maven"
apply plugin: "war"
apply plugin: "tomcat"
def now = new Date()
def cssDir = new File("truexpense-web/src/main/webapp/css").getAbsoluteFile().getPath()
def minCssName = 'all-min.css'
def jsDir = new File("truexpense-web/src/main/webapp/js").getAbsoluteFile().getPath()
def minJsName = 'all-min.js'
ext.requestor = ''
ext.fromAddress = ''
ext.replyAddress = ''
ext.formattedDate = now.format('dd MMM yyy HH:mm')
ext.product = 'Truexpense'
configurations {
deployerJars
jasper
mail
}
dependencies {
//Compile time but not included dependencies
providedCompile "javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:3.0.1"
providedCompile "org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-jdbc:$tomcatVersion"
//Compile time dependencies
compile project(":truexpense-domain")
compile project(":truexpense-repository")
compile project(":truexpense-service")
compile "org.springframework:spring-core:$springVersion"
compile "org.springframework:spring-web:$springVersion"
compile "org.hibernate:hibernate-core:$hibernateVersion"
compile "org.hibernate:hibernate-envers:$hibernateVersion"
compile "org.hibernate:hibernate-ehcache:$hibernateVersion"
compile "org.hibernate:hibernate-validator:4.2.0.Final"
compile "commons-io:commons-io:2.3"
compile "commons-codec:commons-codec:1.6"
compile "org.springframework.security:spring-security-core:3.1.0.RELEASE"
compile "org.springframework.security:spring-security-config:3.1.0.RELEASE"
compile "org.springframework.security:spring-security-web:3.1.0.RELEASE"
compile "javax.mail:mail:1.4"
compile "mysql:mysql-connector-java:$mysqlVersion"
compile "com.google.visualization:visualization-datasource:1.0.2"
compile "org.ostermiller:utils:1.07.00"
compile "net.sf.ofx4j:ofx4j:1.4"
compile "org.jpedal:jbig2:1"
compile "org.apache.pdfbox:txp-fontbox:$pdfboxVersion"
compile "org.apache.pdfbox:txp-jempbox:$pdfboxVersion"
compile "org.apache.pdfbox:txp-pdfbox:$pdfboxVersion"
compile "taglibs:taglibs-unstandard:1"
compile "org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-mapper-asl:1.9.7"
compile "org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:$httpClientVersion"
//Runtime only dependencies
runtime "commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils-core:1.8.3"
runtime "joda-time:joda-time:2.1"
runtime "org.springframework.security:spring-security-taglibs:3.1.0.RELEASE"
runtime "org.springframework:spring-beans:$springVersion"
runtime "org.springframework:spring-context:$springVersion"
runtime "org.springframework:spring-core:$springVersion"
runtime "org.springframework:spring-expression:$springVersion"
runtime "org.springframework:spring-instrument:$springVersion"
runtime "org.springframework:spring-instrument-tomcat:$springVersion"
runtime "org.springframework:spring-jdbc:$springVersion"
runtime "org.springframework:spring-jms:$springVersion"
runtime "org.springframework:spring-orm:$springVersion"
runtime "org.springframework:spring-oxm:$springVersion"
runtime "org.springframework:spring-tx:$springVersion"
runtime "org.springframework:spring-web:$springVersion"
runtime "org.springframework:spring-webmvc:$springVersion"
runtime ("commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload:1.2.2") {
exclude group: "javax.servlet", module: "javax.servlet-api"
exclude group: "portlet-api"
}
runtime ("javax.servlet:jstl:1.2") {
exclude group: "javax.servlet", module: "javax.servlet-api"
exclude group: "javax.servlet", module: "jsp-api"
}
//Test only dependencies
tomcat "org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-dbcp:${tomcatVersion}"
tomcat "org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core:${tomcatVersion}",
"org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-logging-juli:${tomcatVersion}"
tomcat("org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-jasper:${tomcatVersion}") {
exclude group: 'org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler', module: 'ecj'
}
//Deployments
deployerJars "org.apache.maven.wagon:wagon-http:1.0-beta-2"
[tomcatRun, tomcatRunWar]*.httpPort = 8090
[tomcatRun, tomcatStop]*.stopPort = 8081
[tomcatRun, tomcatStop]*.stopKey = 'stopKey'
task integrationTest(type: Test) {
include '**/*IntegrationTest.*'
doFirst {
tomcatRun.daemon = true
tomcatRun.execute()
}
doLast {
tomcatStop.execute()
}
}
test {
exclude '**/*IntegrationTest.*'
}
}
war {
baseName='truexpense'
eachFile {
if (it.name == 'login_css_include.jsp') {
it.expand(loginCSS: "login-min.css?t=${now.getTime()}")
}
else if (it.name == 'all_css_include.jsp') {
it.expand(allCSS: "all-min.css?t=${now.getTime()}")
}
else if (it.name == 'all_js_include.jsp') {
it.expand(allJS: "all-min.js?t=${now.getTime()}")
}
}
}
task deploy << { deploy() }
task minifyCSS << {
def files = fileTree(dir: "${cssDir}", includes: [
"analysis.css",
"header.css",
"footer.css",
"blocks.css",
"chosen.css",
"grids.css",
"space.css",
"dataTables.css",
"newCore.css",
"core.css",
"skin_clean.css",
"plugins.css",
"css3.css",
"jquery-ui.css",
"jquery.lightbox-0.5.css",
"jqueryFileTree.css",
"jquery.qtip.css",
"expense.css",
"report.css",
"zentab.css"
]).getFiles().sort({it.name})
concatenate("${cssDir}/all.css", files)
yuiCompressor("${cssDir}/all.css", "${cssDir}/${minCssName}")
yuiCompressor("${cssDir}/login.css", "${cssDir}/login-min.css")
}
task minifyJS << {
def files = fileTree(dir: "${jsDir}", excludes:[
'all*.js',
'jqtouch*.js'
]).getFiles().sort({it.name})
concatenate("${jsDir}/all.js", files)
yuiCompressor("${jsDir}/all.js", "${jsDir}/${minJsName}")
}
def yuiCompressor(from, to) {
ant.java(jar:"tools/yuicompressor-2.4.7.jar", fork: true, failonerror: true) {
arg(value: from)
arg(value: "-o")
arg(value: to)
}
}
def concatenate(filePath, files) {
File file = new File(filePath)
if (file.exists()) {
file.write("")
}
files.each { File f ->
file.append(f.getText() + '\n')
}
}
def deploy() {
println "Deleting ${tomcatHome}/webapps/${war.baseName}"
delete "${tomcatHome}/webapps/${war.baseName}"
println "Deleting ${tomcatHome}/work/Catalina/localhost/${war.baseName}"
delete "${tomcatHome}/work/Catalina/localhost/${war.baseName}"
println "Copying ${war.archiveName} to ${tomcatHome}/webapps"
copy {
from war.archivePath
into "${tomcatHome}/webapps"
}
}

Answer 1

How do you reference your applicationContext.xml in your web.xml? If you use the full path (/WEB-INF/classes/applicationContext.xml) then I'd probably change it to search for it on the classpath:
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>classpath:applicationContext.xml</param-value>
</context-param>