Hello, I have a simple question. I have a plugin that transforms some resources before the

processResources

step. It places the transformed resources in a

generated/resources

folder and adds that folder to the

resources

srcDirs. The original resources that have been transformed are then excluded. The task is run before the

processResources

step takes place. However, when I start the build task in

--continuous

mode it doesn't trigger on changes in the resource anymore. Is there a way to exclude files from the resources but still have the

--continuous

flag working when changing the underlying resources (and effectively retriggering the transformation task)?

I don't know what your transformation does, but can't you simply transform them as part of the

processResources

task? If you for example just replace some placeholders, you can for example use

expand

or you can use an other

Transformer

or

FilterReader

, ...

O wow. I didn’t even know these existed. Transformer seems to be the one I need… Gradle always surprised me with how complete it is.

Keep in mind that you should always set the filtering charset if you do any filter, expand, or similar. And that you should restrict the actions with

filesMatching

and friends in most cases to not hit expected files, especially binary ones.

Yes I did the filesmatching one already. I’ll do the charset as well