Add resources config files to your jar using gradle

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How do I add config files or any other resources into my jar using gradle   My project structure      src main java com perseus    --- Java packages  source files       src main java config   xml --- Spring config files   Expected jar structure      com perseus    --- Java packages  class files        config   xml --- Spring config files

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I ran into the same problem  I had a PNG file in a Java package and it wasn t exported in the final JAR along with the sources  which caused the app to crash upon start  file not found    None of the answers above solved my problem but I found the solution on the Gradle forums  I added the following to my build gradle file    sourceSets main resources srcDirs      src     sourceSets main resources includes           png      It tells Gradle to look for resources in the src folder  and ask it to include only PNG files   EDIT  Beware that if you re using Eclipse  this will break your run configurations and you ll get a main class not found error when trying to run your program  To fix that  the only solution I ve found is to move the image s  to another directory  res  for example  and to set it as srcDirs instead of src

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Be aware that the path under src main resources must match the package path of your  class files wishing to access the resource   See my answer here

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By default any files you add to src main resources will be included in the jar   If you need to change that behavior for whatever reason  you can do so by configuring sourceSets   This part of the documentation has all the details

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I came across this post searching how to add an extra directory for resources  I found a solution that may be useful to someone  Here is my final configuration to get that   sourceSets       main           resources               srcDirs  src main resources    src main configs

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Move the config files from src main java to src main resources

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Thanks guys  I was migrating an existing project to Gradle and didn t like the idea of changing the project structure that much   I have figured it out  thought this information could be useful to beginners   Here is a sample task from my  build gradle    version    1 0 0   jar      baseName    analytics     from  src main java           include  config      xml           manifest          attributes  Implementation-Title    Analytics Library    Implementation-Version   version

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