Using Gradle to build a jar with dependencies

Question

I posted a solution in JIRA against Gradle:

// Include dependent libraries in archive.
mainClassName = "com.company.application.Main"

jar {
  manifest { 
    attributes "Main-Class": "$mainClassName"
  }  

  from {
    configurations.compile.collect { it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it) }
  }
}

Note that mainClassName must appear BEFORE jar {.

The answer by @felix almost brought me there. I had two issues:

1. With Gradle 1.5, the manifest tag was not recognised inside the fatJar task, so the Main-Class attribute could not directly be set
2. the jar had conflicting external META-INF files.

The following setup resolves this

jar {
  manifest {
    attributes(
      'Main-Class': 'my.project.main',
    )
  }
}

task fatJar(type: Jar) {
  manifest.from jar.manifest
  classifier = 'all'
  from {
    configurations.runtimeClasspath.collect { it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it) }
  } {
    exclude "META-INF/*.SF"
    exclude "META-INF/*.DSA"
    exclude "META-INF/*.RSA"
  }
  with jar
}

To add this to the standard assemble or build task, add:

artifacts {
    archives fatJar
}

Edit: thanks to @mjaggard: in recent versions of Gradle, change configurations.runtime to configurations.runtimeClasspath

If you want the jar task to behave normally and also have an additional fatJar task, use the following:

task fatJar(type: Jar) {
    classifier = 'all'
    from { configurations.compile.collect { it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it) } }
    with jar
}

The important part is with jar. Without it, the classes of this project are not included.

This works fine for me.

My Main class:

package com.curso.online.gradle;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(Main.class);
        logger.debug("Starting demo");

        String s = "Some Value";

        if (!StringUtils.isEmpty(s)) {
            System.out.println("Welcome ");
        }

        logger.debug("End of demo");
    }

}

And it is the content of my file build.gradle:

apply plugin: 'java'

apply plugin: 'eclipse'

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    compile group: 'commons-collections', name: 'commons-collections', version: '3.2'
    testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.+'
    compile  'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.0'
    compile  'log4j:log4j:1.2.16'
}

task fatJar(type: Jar) {
    manifest {
        attributes 'Main-Class': 'com.curso.online.gradle.Main'
    }
    baseName = project.name + '-all'
    from { configurations.compile.collect { it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it) } }
    with jar
}

And I write the following in my console:

java -jar ProyectoEclipseTest-all.jar

And the output is great:

log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (com.curso.online.gradle.Main)
.
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more in
fo.
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