The Distribution Plugin facilitates building archives that serve as distributions of the project. Distribution archives typically contain the executable application and other supporting files, such as documentation.
Usage
To use the Distribution Plugin, include the following in your build script:
plugins {
id 'distribution'
}
plugins {
distribution
}
The plugin adds an extension named distributions of type DistributionContainer to the project. It also creates a single distribution in the distributions container extension named main. If your build only produces one distribution you only need to configure this distribution (or use the defaults).
You can run gradle distZip to package the main distribution as a ZIP, or gradle distTar to create a TAR file. To build both types of archives just run gradle assembleDist. The files will be created at $buildDir/distributions/${project.name}-${project.version}.«ext».
You can run gradle installDist to assemble the uncompressed distribution into $buildDir/install/${project.name}.
Tasks
The Distribution Plugin adds a number of tasks to your project, as shown below.
distZip— Zip-
Creates a ZIP archive of the distribution contents.
distTar— Task-
Creates a TAR archive of the distribution contents.
assembleDist— Task-
Depends on:
distTar,distZipCreates ZIP and TAR archives of the distribution contents.
installDist— Sync-
Assembles the distribution content and installs it on the current machine.
For each additional distribution you add to the project, the Distribution Plugin adds the following tasks, where distributionName comes from Distribution.getName():
distributionNameDistZip— Zip-
Creates a ZIP archive of the distribution contents.
distributionNameDistTar— Tar-
Creates a TAR archive of the distribution contents.
assembleDistributionNameDist— Task-
Depends on:
distributionNameDistTar,distributionNameDistZipCreates ZIP and TAR archives of the distribution contents.
installDistributionNameDist— Sync-
Assembles the distribution content and installs it on the current machine.
The following sample creates a custom distribution that will cause four additional tasks to be added to the project: customDistZip, customDistTar, assembleCustomDist, and installCustomDist:
distributions {
custom {
// configure custom distribution
}
}
distributions {
create("custom") {
// configure custom distribution
}
}
Given that the project name is myproject and version 1.2, running gradle customDistZip will produce a ZIP file named myproject-custom-1.2.zip.
Running gradle installCustomDist will install the distribution contents into $buildDir/install/custom.
Distribution contents
All of the files in the src/$distribution.name/dist directory will automatically be included in the distribution. You can add additional files by configuring the Distribution object that is part of the container.
distributions {
main {
distributionBaseName = 'someName'
contents {
from 'src/readme'
}
}
}
distributions {
main {
distributionBaseName.set("someName")
contents {
from("src/readme")
}
}
}
In the example above, the content of the src/readme directory will be included in the distribution (along with the files in the src/main/dist directory which are added by default).
The baseName property has also been changed. This will cause the distribution archives to be created with a different name.
Publishing
A distribution can be published using the Ivy Publish Plugin or Maven Publish Plugin, or via the original publishing mechanism using the uploadArchives task.
Using the Ivy/Maven Publish Plugins
To publish a distribution to an Ivy repository with the Ivy Publish Plugin, simply add one or both of its archive tasks to an IvyPublication. The following sample demonstrates how to add the ZIP archive of the main distribution and the TAR archive of the custom distribution to the myDistribution publication:
plugins {
id 'ivy-publish'
}
publishing {
publications {
myDistribution(IvyPublication) {
artifact distZip
artifact customDistTar
}
}
}
plugins {
`ivy-publish`
}
publishing {
publications {
create<IvyPublication>("myDistribution") {
artifact(tasks.distZip.get())
artifact(tasks["customDistTar"])
}
}
}
Similarly, to publish a distribution to a Maven repository using the Maven Publish Plugin, add one or both of its archive tasks to a MavenPublication as follows:
plugins {
id 'maven-publish'
}
publishing {
publications {
myDistribution(MavenPublication) {
artifact distZip
artifact customDistTar
}
}
}
plugins {
`maven-publish`
}
publishing {
publications {
create<MavenPublication>("myDistribution") {
artifact(tasks.distZip.get())
artifact(tasks["customDistTar"])
}
}
}
Using the uploadArchives task
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The Distribution Plugin adds the distribution archives as default publishing artifact candidates.
With the Maven Plugin applied, the distribution ZIP file will be published when running uploadArchives if no other default artifact is configured.
plugins {
id 'maven'
}
uploadArchives {
repositories {
mavenDeployer {
repository(url: "file://some/repo")
}
}
}
plugins {
maven
}
tasks.named<Upload>("uploadArchives") {
repositories.withGroovyBuilder {
"mavenDeployer" {
"repository"("url" to "file://some/repo")
}
}
}