[GRADLE-2621] eclipse plugin puts source jars as classpath entries Created: 09/Jan/13  Updated: 10/Feb/17  Resolved: 10/Feb/17

Status: Resolved
Project: Gradle
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Bug
Reporter: Szczepan Faber Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Won't Fix Votes: 1


 Description   

Imagine a module declared this way in ivy.xml (skipping most of the ivy.xml):

<publications>
  <artifact name="jackson-core-asl" type="jar" ext="jar" conf="master"/>
  <artifact name="jackson-core-asl" type="source" ext="jar" conf="sources" m:classifier="sources"/>
</publications>

When gradle build declares dependency to jackson-core-asl and eclipse classpath is generated, the .classpath contains both, the sources jar and library jar:

<classpathentry sourcepath="/.../jackson-core-asl-1.8.5-sources.jar" kind="lib" path="/.../jackson-core-asl-1.8.5.jar" exported="true"/>
<classpathentry kind="lib" path="/.../jackson-core-asl-1.8.5-sources.jar" exported="true"/>

The correct content of .classpath should only have the library jar with source attachement (1st entry in, 2nd entry out).

Workaround

For most projects, this issue does not yield any wrong behavior (e.g. the project builds in eclipse). To avoid the source entries you can do something like:

allprojects {
  plugins.withType(EclipsePlugin) {
    project.plugins.withType(JavaBasePlugin) {
      eclipse.classpath.file.whenMerged { classpath ->
        classpath.entries.removeAll { it.path.endsWith('-sources.jar') }
      }
    }
  }
}


 Comments   
Comment by Benjamin Muschko [ 15/Nov/16 ]

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Comment by Benjamin Muschko [ 10/Feb/17 ]

Thanks again for reporting this issue. We haven't heard back from you after our inquiry from November 15th. We are closing this issue now. Please create an issue on GitHub if you still feel passionate about getting it resolved.

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