Using a custom gradle dependency configuration

[bjorndarri]

I have a gradle configuration in a project of mine:

configurations { serverRuntime { extendsFrom compile } }

I can then use this configuration, for example:

task runServer(type: ModularJavaExec) { classpath = configurations.serverRuntime }

and

startScripts { classpath = configurations.serverRuntime }

but I have not found a way to use this specific configuration in jlink, which seems to use the default runtime configuration.

Is there a way to specify a configuration for jlink?

[bjorndarri]

I've been looking at the code and found a reference to

project.configurations['runtimeClasspath']

in the DependencyManager constructor. I played around with adding a Configuration parameter to the constructor but got quickly bogged down by all the places I had to change, I got as far as adding a Configuration variable to JLinkTaskData and a Property<Configuration> to JLinkPluginExtension (with default value as project.configurations['runtimeClasspath']) but stopped there since I don't have any experience in groovy or gradle plugin development.

At least this looks possible, by adding a org.gradle.api.artifacts.Configuration parameter to the task.

[siordache]

The next release will support custom configurations.

[siordache]

Implemented in release 2.15.0.
Usage:

jlink {
    configuration = 'serverRuntime'
    ...
}

[bjorndarri]

Fantastic, thank you!