Gradle file paths

Please see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-265203#focus=Comments-27-4795223.0-0 and https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/16748 .

You cannot rely on the current directory in Gradle builds since Gradle can reuse the existing daemon that is started for another project and will have a completely different working directory.

Build logic must never rely on CWD. Use Project.file, Project.projectDir, Project.buildDir, Project.rootDir etc instead. This applies to plugins as well. Plugins relying on CWD are broken and need to be fixed.

Thanks. I have converted most to something like this...

File mainFile = new File("$projectDir/src/main/webapp/views/code/main.css")

which is working almost everywhere. This is the only code that doesnt seem to replace the variable.

task uploadToDevServer {
doLast {
ssh.settings {
knownHosts = allowAnyHosts
}
ssh.run {
session(remotes.webDevServer) {
put from: '$buildDir/build/libs/ROOT.war', into: '/mnt/backup'
}
}
}
}

The error says cant find file "$buildDir/build/libs/ROOT.war". Any reason why the variable replace isnt working on this one call?

https://discuss.gradle.org/ would be a better place for this question.

Looks like this works...

put from: buildDir.toString()+'/libs/ROOT.war', into: '/mnt/backup'