Gradle task does not take sourceSet configuration

Question

There is snippet from template

sourceSets {
    main {
        java {
            srcDir 'src'
        }
        resources {
            srcDir 'src'
        }
    }
}
task initSourceFolders { // add << before { to prevent executing during configuration phase
   sourceSets*.java.srcDirs*.each { it.mkdirs() }
   sourceSets*.resources.srcDirs*.each { it.mkdirs() }
}

Problem: folders are created as src/main/java , not as just src

Answer 1

Your code is adding additional source directories, rather than overriding the defaults. To do the latter, use:

sourceSets {
    main {
        java {
            srcDirs = ['src']
        }
        resources {
            srcDirs = ['src']
        }
    }
}

For more information, see SourceSet in the Gradle Build Language Reference .