如何将Artifactory WAR添加为Gradle依赖项

Question

I'm working on a Spring MVC project (using Gradle) to produce a template to be integrated on different projects. The template project contains few HTML files and some classes to handle the properties. I've configured the artifactory-gradle-plugin to generate and publish a WAR containing my HTML files and classes. Everything works just fine and my WAR and POM files are now available under my Artifactory server. Here's a part of my build.gradle file

war {
    rootSpec.exclude('**/*.properties')
    [...]
    rootSpec.exclude('**/test/**')
    rootSpec.exclude('**/*.jar')
}

artifactory {
    publish {
        contextUrl = "myurl"  
        repository {
            repoKey = 'myrepo'
            username = "myuser"
            password = "mypasswd"
            maven = true
        }
        defaults {
            publications ('mavenJava')
        }
    }
}
publishing {
    publications {
        mavenJava(MavenPublication) {
            from components.web
        }
    }
 }    

Unfortunately when I try to add this artifact as dependency on an other project, Gradle successfully finds the WAR but nothing is integrated in the project. I can't find any HTML, classes or war files in the project.

dependencies {
    compile(group: 'test.spring', name: 'test-layout', version: '0.0.1', ext: 'war')
}

Is there something missing or am I completely of the track with this?

Answer 1

It does not make sense to add dependency to a war file since that is a packaging for an application server and not for other projects.

I suggest you also publish other artifacts from your original project, and instead import them as dependencies.

An alternative would be to unpack the war in a separate task but that is not needed when you have control over the source project.

Answer 2

OK, after asking the same question on the Gradle forum, it seems that there is no easy way to achieve this using one single artifact without loosing all dependencies (special thanks to Lance_Java). It sounds like I have to create a JAR and a ZIP artifact (see the zip references as described in the previous @Joachim Nilsson post)

https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-to-add-an-artifactory-war-as-a-gradle-dependency/19804/4

My final solution will be to simply deploy my templates under a "commons" web repository and deploy my configuration classes in a JAR artifact.