Gradle does not include resource folder to jar

Question

I am having a little trouble building jar from gradle project. Namely gradle doesn't include my resource folder even though i have it specified in build.gradle as shown below:

plugins {
    id 'application'
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

application {
    mainClass = 'skorupinski.xmass.Main'
}

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

jar {  
    manifest {  
        attributes(  
                'Main-Class': 'skorupinski.xmass.Main'  
        )  
    }  

    baseName = 'hi'
}

There are images in the resource folder that I load into my java program. When I run the jar file it returns an error that it coudln't file the image file unless i put the jar in the same directory as src folder.

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Answer 1

May be you should try exclusively specifying the include in jar section of build.gradle

jar { 

// try adding this
    from('src/main/resources') {
       include '**/*.*'
    }

 
    manifest {  
        attributes(  
                'Main-Class': 'skorupinski.xmass.Main'  
        )  
    }  

    baseName = 'hi'
}