How to Exclude directory and its contents in gradle war

Question

I am using gradle war plugin, I am trying to exclude some directories inside WEB-INF directory while packing a war, but the excludes don\'t seem to

Answer 1

To exclude a folder named metadata contained in WEB-INF use the following code in your build.gradle file:

war.rootSpec.exclude("**/WEB-INF/metadata/")

or depending on your coding style you could also use:

war 
{ 
    rootSpec.exclude("**/WEB-INF/metadata/") 
}

This link on the gradle discussion forum may also be of help