gcloud app deploy command error INVALID_ARGUMENT: WEB-INF/appengine-web.xml is required for this runtime

Question

I try to convert work from appengine-web.xml file to work with app.yaml file in google app engine project, so I created app.yaml file and put it in main folder of project. when I try to deploy my project with "gcloud app deploy" command I get error INVALID_ARGUMENT: WEB-INF/appengine-web.xml is required for this runtime if I run "gcloud app deploy path/appengine-web.xml" command the deploy is work fine what i need to to convert to work with app.yaml file? additions info my project write in java8 my project write in eclipse

thank you

Answer 1

One Java Application that will be deployed in App Engine must have a file named appengine-web.xml in its WAR, in the directory WEB-INF/.

I verified the gcloud app deploy command documentation and it seems that for Java 8 you need to run :

gcloud app deploy ~/my_app/WEB-INF/appengine-web.xml

That is the one that you are running.

On the other hand, I found this documentation ( for Flexible ) that mentions how to organize your files in case that you want to use the app.yaml for java 8

Answer 2

As the documetnatyion indicated that, for Java8 Standard apps, you must add the path to the appengine-web.xml file inside the WEB-INF directory. gcloud app deploy skips files specified in the .gcloudignore file see gcloud topic gcloudignore for more information .