将源添加到.jar以进行gradle构建

Question

I have a gradle project and I want to add a .jar and attach its source to the "Project and External Dependencies" folder when it builds. Adding the .jar bit is fine, I can do that. Added the line

compile files('lib/choco-solver-4.10.0.jar')

under the dependencies{} section and it does it just fine. No problems.

I have choco-solver-4.10.0-sources.jar as well, which is the source code for the choco-solver-4.10.0.jar . I want this source code so that i can dig into the code of it when debugging/coding.

I don't know how and can't find a way (after 45 minutes of googling searching) to attach the source code to this so that it ends up with the .jar in "Project and External Dependencies" attached to choco-solver-4.10.0.jar . If someone could point me to a previously answered question or google result that shows me to do this i'd be equally as grateful as if someone gave me an answer here.

I can add choco-solver-4.10.0.jar to the build path of the Eclipse project, but that doesn't seem to help in getting it to sort itself out with Gradle.

I'm genuinely at a loss at the moment. Thanks in advance for any help. Bear in mind that I am a Mathematics graduate who has been coding in java less than a year, and this sort of stuff is very new to me.

Answer 1

Have you tried to add it to your project's properties?

Go to Properties -> Java Build Path -> Libraries

Then select the library you want to attach the source for in the list, expand it, you should see something like that:

Source Attachment: (none)
Javadoc location: (none)
Native library location: (none)
Is not modular - non modifiable
Access rules: (No restrictions)

Click on Source attachment: (none) and then Edit... , from this window you should be able to select your source jar and attach it.

I do not know where you got this library, but there is a plugin in the Eclipse marketplace, named Java Source Attacher , which automatically search for the sources of your library in the popular Java repositories on Internet and attach it to your project.