How to create the fat jar with gradle kotlin script

Question

As titled, I\'d like to know how to modify the gradle.build.kts in order to have a task to create a unique jar with all the dependencies (kotlin li

Answer 1

Here is a version that does not use a plugin, more like the Groovy version.

import org.gradle.jvm.tasks.Jar

val fatJar = task("fatJar", type = Jar::class) {
    baseName = "${project.name}-fat"
    manifest {
        attributes["Implementation-Title"] = "Gradle Jar File Example"
        attributes["Implementation-Version"] = version
        attributes["Main-Class"] = "com.mkyong.DateUtils"
    }
    from(configurations.runtime.map({ if (it.isDirectory) it else zipTree(it) }))
    with(tasks["jar"] as CopySpec)
}

tasks {
    "build" {
        dependsOn(fatJar)
    }
}

Also explained here

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Some commenters pointed out that this does not work anymore with newer Gradle versions. Update tested with Gradle 5.4.1:

import org.gradle.jvm.tasks.Jar

val fatJar = task("fatJar", type = Jar::class) {
    baseName = "${project.name}-fat"
    manifest {
        attributes["Implementation-Title"] = "Gradle Jar File Example"
        attributes["Implementation-Version"] = version
        attributes["Main-Class"] = "com.mkyong.DateUtils"
    }
    from(configurations.runtimeClasspath.get().map({ if (it.isDirectory) it else zipTree(it) }))
    with(tasks.jar.get() as CopySpec)
}

tasks {
    "build" {
        dependsOn(fatJar)
    }
}

Note the difference in configurations.runtimeClasspath.get() and with(tasks.jar.get() as CopySpec).

Answer 2

Here is how to do it as of Gradle 6.5.1, Kotlin/Kotlin-Multiplatform 1.3.72, utilizing a build.gradle.kts file and without using an extra plugin which does seem unnecessary and problematic with multiplatform;

Note: in reality, few plugins work well with the multiplatform plugin from what I can tell, which is why I suspect its design philosophy is so verbose itself. It's actually fairly elegant IMHO, but not flexible or documented enough so it takes a ton of trial and error to setup even WITHOUT additional plugins.

Hope this helps others.

kotlin {
    jvm {
        compilations {
            val main = getByName("main")
            tasks {
                register<Jar>("fatJar") {
                    group = "application"
                    manifest {
                        attributes["Implementation-Title"] = "Gradle Jar File Example"
                        attributes["Implementation-Version"] = archiveVersion
                        attributes["Main-Class"] = "[[mainClassPath]]"
                    }
                    archiveBaseName.set("${project.name}-fat")
                    from(main.output.classesDirs, main.compileDependencyFiles)
                    with(jar.get() as CopySpec)
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

You could use the ShadowJar plugin to build a fat jar:

import com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins.shadow.tasks.ShadowJar

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
        gradleScriptKotlin()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath(kotlinModule("gradle-plugin"))
        classpath("com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins:shadow:1.2.3")
    }
}

apply {
    plugin("kotlin")
    plugin("com.github.johnrengelman.shadow")
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

val shadowJar: ShadowJar by tasks
shadowJar.apply {
    manifest.attributes.apply {
        put("Implementation-Title", "Gradle Jar File Example")
        put("Implementation-Version" version)
        put("Main-Class", "com.mkyong.DateUtils")
    }

    baseName = project.name + "-all"
}

Simply run the task with 'shadowJar'.

NOTE: This assumes you're using GSK 0.7.0 (latest as of 02/13/2017).