war plugin: Manipulate web.xml on the fly?

[Björn Harmen Gerth]

Hello,

my script defines

war {
webXml = file("$rootDir/templates/web.xml")
}

Is it possible to directly manipulate the target web.xml of this copy
process? In my case, I'd like to exchange some placeholders with the
project name. I have tried

eachFile {
...
}

but that does not include web.xml.

Thanks,
Björn

[razu]

Hi Björn,

I'm sure you've already resolved your problem, but I had the similar
requirement and I've resolved it in that way:


def webXmlTemplateName = 'WEB-INF/web.xml.template'
def webXmlTemplate = file("$webAppDir/$webXmlTemplateName")
def generatedWebXmlFile = file("$buildDir/web.xml")

processResources << {
def engine = new groovy.text.SimpleTemplateEngine()
generatedWebXmlFile.withWriter { w ->
w <<
engine.createTemplate(webXmlTemplate).make(System.getProperties()).toString()
}
}

war {
excludes = [webXmlTemplateName]
webXml = generatedWebXmlFile
}


in this case properties to resolve are provided from JVM properties.


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