How to publish a folder structure (NOT a file) to a maven repo using Gradle?

Question

We need to publish JavaDoc to our maven repository as a site, not an archive, so that it can be browsed directly from there. Our maven-based projects do this already but we are having trouble finding the way to do this with Gradle - I think using "site deploy".

It is incredibly complicated to search for this as "site" is such an overloaded term and other searches don't produce any results.

Answer 1

Based on this script, here is a simple one which upload a directory structure. I tested it with my Artifactory OSS and it's working.

#!/bin/bash

# Recursively deploys folder content. Attempt checksum deploy first to optimize upload time.

repo_url="http://ip:port/artifactory"
tgt_repo="simple/myrepo"
user=myuser
pass=mypass

dir="$1"

if [ -z "$dir" ]; then echo "Please specify a directory to recursively upload from!"; exit 1; fi

root=${dir#$(dirname "$dir")/}

find "$dir" -type f | sort | while read f; do
    rel="$(echo "$f" | sed -e "s#$dir##" -e "s# /#/#")";
    echo "Uploading $f"
    curl -k -u $user:$pass -T "$f" "${repo_url}/${tgt_repo}/${root}${rel}"
done

Now, you can turn this into Groovy code with a curl command.

Off course it's not as automatic as a simple Gradle task to execute but the job will be done.