Hello Mike, I'm in a similar situation in that our project started (and still is) an ant-based java web project originally created with NB 8.2, but needed it to work with gradle as well, (not because of CI, but because a coworker prefers to use another editor that only supports Maven/Gradle).
We created a build.gradle on the root of the project for his convenience. When NB 11 came all we had to do was rename the build.gradle to something that NB doesn't recognize as a gradle project, say, "build.gradle.rename.me", and now the only thing our coworker has to do to get it working in his editor is rename the file back to build.gradle in his local working copy. You don't even need to delete the .gradle folder or change anything in the nbproject folder, as long as netbeans doesn't detect a gradle build file it will open your project as an ant project. Now, in your case I see two alternatives: 1.- Keep the build.gradle and rename it on your local copy. 2.- Rename the build.gradle and somehow make your CI work with the renamed file. Now regarding whether there's an option in NB11 to fix this without renaming anything, there's an option to prefer Maven over Gradle, but unfortunately not one to prefer Ant over Gradle. I don't recommend converting the project to gradle, since currently NB11 doesn't support web projects, please see this issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-2249 and more importantly Laszlo's comment regarding the status of this feature. By the way, Laszlo mentioned a plugin, but not sure if he's referring to this one http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/55529/gradle-javaee-support, I tried it and couldn't get it to work ¿Anyone else had any luck? On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 12:14 PM Mike Ryan <mr...@cornell.edu> wrote: > > I started a Java Web App back in NB 8.2 which by default used Ant. > > Once I started using GitLab CI for the project, I created a build.gradle > file, which just fires off the ant build: > > ant.importBuild('build.xml') { antTargetName -> > 'a-' + antTargetName > } > > and then defines my dependencies, war file info, etc. > > Now that I'm using NB11, NB detects the build.gradle file and assumes > this is a Gradle project. I'm fine with that, but obviously there are > things I'm going to need to do to the structure of my > project/build.gradle file to actually work with the project. > > Specifically, my "Web Pages" directory no longer appears in the Project > view. I presume this is because I need to adhere to Gradle's assumed > location of the web or webapp directory or tell Gradle what that path is > in my build.gradle, but I have been unable to figure out the settings to > do this. > > I've tried to use the info in Gradle docs, but I haven't been successful: > > https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/war_plugin.html > > I did notice that if you were to create a new project, "Java with > Gradle" does not include "Web Application" as a project like "Java with > Maven" and "Java with Ant -> Java Web" do. > > I'm assuming that in NetBeans, I should be able to manually convert an > existing Web App project to a Gradle Web App project? > > If so, do I need to convert all the Ant stuff to Gradle? Or, at least in > the short run is there a way to tell NB to ignore the existence of > build.gradle and just let me open it up as an Ant Java Web App? > > I have been Googling around and I haven't found anything obvious yet. If > anyone knows of existing resources for figuring this out, please let me > know. > > Thanks! > > -Mike -- Juan Roberto Algaba Meave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
