Gradle task to create a zip archive of a directory

Question

I have a gradle task to create a zip archive of a directory. The gradle task is:

task archiveReports(type: Zip) {
   from '/projects/Reports/*'
   archiveName 'Reports.zip'
}

When I am running the command 'gradle archiveReports', its showing the build is successful. However, no zip file is getting created.

Am I missing something here?

Answer 1

I figured out a way for this: Its working for me now.

task myZip(type: Zip) {    from 'Reports/'    include '*'    include '*/*' //to include contents of a folder present inside Reports directory    archiveName 'Reports.zip'    destinationDir(file('/dir1/dir2/dir3/')) } 

Answer 2

With Gradle 6.7,

task packageDistribution(type: Zip) {
    archiveFileName = "my-distribution.zip"
    destinationDirectory = file("$buildDir/dist")

    from "$buildDir/toArchive"
}

Note : archiveName is deprected.

Answer 3

With Kotlin DSL

tasks.register<Zip>("packageDistribution") {
    archiveFileName.set("my-distribution.zip")
    destinationDirectory.set(layout.buildDirectory.dir("dist"))

    from(layout.buildDirectory.dir("toArchive"))
}

With Groovy

tasks.register('packageDistribution', Zip) {
    archiveFileName = "my-distribution.zip"
    destinationDirectory = layout.buildDirectory.dir('dist')

    from layout.buildDirectory.dir("toArchive")
}

Taken from the official docs