Define which war to use about gradle-tomcat-plugin HOT 9 CLOSED

You should be able to set the WAR file via the following:

tasks.withType(TomcatRunWar) {
    webApp = <your-war-file>
}

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Adding the above throws the following error

A problem occurred evaluating root project 'iC'.
Could not find method withType() for arguments [task ':tomcatRunWar', build_8a9r4tsfqjq9meq9akmu6803e$_run_closure28@11e80ef] on task set of type org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.DefaultTaskContainer.

I have it written as so

tasks.withType(tomcatRunWar){
    dependsOn 'build_notest'
    webApp = 'build/dist/iC.war'
}

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So you can either configure all tasks of type TomcatRunWar (capital T):

tasks.withType(TomcatRunWar) {
    dependsOn 'build_notest'
    webApp = 'build/dist/iC.war'
}

Or you can configure just the task instance (if it does exist):

tomcatRunWar {
    dependsOn 'build_notest'
    webApp = 'build/dist/iC.war'
}

For more general information on configuring tasks, I'd suggest you ask on the Gradle forum. That's not really specific to this plugin.

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I'm sorry, I am a little confused with your answer. Above you said it would work and then you said it wouldn't? Could you please clarify? Thank you

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I think I misread your answer. You stated that it doesn't work for you because of error x. I thought you had said that it did work. Sorry, no coffee yet.

I removed the first sentence in my answer. It should make more sense now.

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I am with you on that. Changing the code to

tomcatRunWar {
    dependsOn 'build_notest'
    webApp = 'build/dist/iC.war'
}

Throws the following error

A problem occurred evaluating root project 'iC'.
Cannot cast object 'build/dist/iC.war' with class 'java.lang.String' to class 'java.io.File'

The other method throws the previous error I listed.

Thanks for the help

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The field webApp is of type java.io.File so you'll have to assign the right type (see the Javadocs of the task type).

It would have to look as such:

tomcatRunWar {
    dependsOn 'build_notest'
    webApp = file('build/dist/iC.war')
}

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That did the trick. Thank you for your help

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Sure thing.

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