Why the gradle war task is skipped?

Question

I am a new convert to gradle. Most of the tasks work fine. However I see that the war task is always skipped. When I run in the debug mode, I see the following logs -

09:12:34.889 [LIFECYCLE] [class org.gradle.internal.buildevents.TaskExecutionLogger] :war 09:12:34.889 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter] Starting to execute task ':war' 09:12:34.889 [INFO] [org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipOnlyIfTaskExecuter] Skipping task ':war' as task onlyIf is false. 09:12:34.889 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter] Finished executing task ':war' 09:12:34.889 [LIFECYCLE] [class org.gradle.internal.buildevents.TaskExecutionLogger] :war SKIPPED

I am not sure why onlyIf is false. I did search on internet. But I did not find anything related.

Here is my gradle file -

buildscript {     ext {         springBootVersion = '2.0.0.M2'     }     repositories {         mavenCentral()         maven { url "https://repo.spring.io/snapshot" }         maven { url "https://repo.spring.io/milestone" }     }     dependencies {         classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:${springBootVersion}")     } }  // Apply the java-library plugin to add support for Java Library apply plugin: 'java-library' apply plugin: 'eclipse' apply plugin: 'org.springframework.boot' apply plugin: 'io.spring.dependency-management' apply plugin: 'war' apply plugin: 'checkstyle' apply plugin: 'pmd' apply plugin: 'findbugs' apply plugin: 'jacoco'  version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT' sourceCompatibility = 1.8  repositories {     jcenter()     mavenCentral()     maven { url "https://repo.spring.io/snapshot" }     maven { url "https://repo.spring.io/milestone" } }  dependencies {      compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter')     compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web")     compile("org.springframework.retry:spring-retry:1.2.1.RELEASE")      compile("org.springframework.data:spring-data-cassandra:2.0.0.M4")      compile("io.reactivex.rxjava2:rxjava:2.1.1")      //compile("javax.persistence:persistence-api:1.0.2")     //compile("org.hibernate.javax.persistence:hibernate-jpa-2.0-api:1.0.1.Final")     compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa")     compile("com.zaxxer:HikariCP:2.6.0")      // Test Dependencies     testCompile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test")     testCompile("org.powermock:powermock-mockito-release-full:1.6.4")     testCompile("org.mockito:mockito-core:2.0.3-beta")     testCompile("org.cassandraunit:cassandra-unit:3.1.3.2")     testCompile("org.cassandraunit:cassandra-unit-spring:2.2.2.1")     testCompile("com.h2database:h2:1.4.196")      // This dependency is exported to consumers, that is to say found on their compile classpath.     api 'org.apache.commons:commons-math3:3.6.1'      // This dependency is used internally, and not exposed to consumers on their own compile classpath.     implementation 'com.google.guava:guava:21.0'      testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12' } 

Here is the image of my project structure -

If you could help me with generating the war file that would be great.

Answer 1

try it

war {     enabled = true } 

Answer 2

I have also faced same issue with jar task, it is skipping the jar generation as it is taking the default value for enabled=false if you dont specify any external value. Same solution works for jar as well based on @Alexander Servetnik
Enrironment: SpringBoot 2.x and gradle 4.4

jar {     baseName = <your-jar name>     enabled=true }