Creating distribution with repackaged spring boot jar using gradle application plugin

Question

Is there any way to configure gradle's application plugin to include only repackaged spring boot jar (by boot gradle plugin) and other resources (e.g. startup scripts) without other dependencies jars (as they already repackaged by boot gradle plugin)?

Answer 1

With spring-boot-gradle-plugin,here is a build.gradle example:

ext {
    mainClassName = 'com.x.x'
}

springBoot {
    mainClass = 'com.x.x'
    layout = 'ZIP'
}

task generateExecutableJar(type: Jar) {
    appendix = 'boot'
    from sourceSets.main.output
}

task repackage(type: BootRepackage, dependsOn: generateExecutableJar) {
    executable = true
    customConfiguration = 'customDependencies'
    withJarTask = generateExecutableJar
}

configurations {
    customDependencies
}