Provide access to the CopySpec for BOOT-INF of BootJar as Gradle's War task does for WEB-INF

[wilkinsona]

Gradle's War task has methods for working with the WEB-INF CopySpec:

• getWebInf()
• webInf(Action<CopySpec>)
• webInf(Closure)

BootJar has no such methods for its CopySpec for BOOT-INF which is analogous to the War task's CopySpec for WEB-INF. When should add both getWebInf() and webInf(Action<CopySpec>). I don't think there's any need for webInf(Closure) as Groovy can happily use the Action variant.

[wilkinsona]

If there are no objections, I'd like to add the missing methods in 2.0.x as they, arguably, should have been there from the outset.

[philwebb]

@wilkinsona would these methods be named getBootInf?

[wilkinsona]

Yeah, I think they’d be:

• getBootInf()
• bootInf(Action<CopySpec>)

[philwebb]

+1 from me then

[wilkinsona]

And now I see why you asked. I used the wrong names in the opening description. Sorry for the confusion.

[wilkinsona]

I'm not sure this is possible without using internal API. Gradle's War task calls an internal addChild() method on its CopySpec. I've reached out to the Gradle team for some guidance. Moving back out to 2.0.x until we know what's possible.

[wilkinsona]

This isn't possible without using internal API so I don't think we should do it. I've opened gradle/gradle#5239 to see if the Gradle team can provide the necessary API. In the meantime, I'm going to decline this issue. We can re-open it if Gradle provides the necessary API at some point in the future.

[wilkinsona]

Turns out that this is possible after all.