How to use ./gradlew getResource for Overlay Customization with CAS 6.1

[Daudt, Carl]

I am attempting to upgrade from CAS 5.x to CAS 6.1 and am new to using gradle for my overlays (have used maven in the past).  I am able to build, configure, and run CAS in my test environment, and am now interested in customizing my messages.properties, templates, etc.  Instructions provided in https://apereo.github.io/2019/01/07/cas61-gettingstarted-overlay/ instruct me to use the following to pull the resources I wish to modify into src/main/resources via the ./gradlew wrapper using the ‘getResource’ procedure.  For the messages.properties resource, I am instructed to do the following:

 

./gradlew getResource -PresourceName=messages.properties

 

However, when I run this, I receive the following:

 

---- BEGIN OUTPUT ----

$ ./gradlew getResource -PresourceName=messages.properties

 

> Task :getResource

No resources could be found matching messages.properties

 

Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 6.0.

Use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings.

See https://docs.gradle.org/5.6.3/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings

 

BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 2s

5 actionable tasks: 1 executed, 4 up-to-date

$

---- END OUTPUT ----

 

Since “No resources could be found matching messages.properties”, nothing was pulled into src/main/resources .

 

Are there some other gradlew procedures I need to run first (I tried ./gradlew explodeWar to no avail)?

 

 

Carl R. Daudt

Enterprise Applications Systems Analyst, Information Technology

Taylor University

 

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[Andy Ng]

Hi Carl,

The tutorial from https://apereo.github.io/2019/01/07/cas61-gettingstarted-overlay/ seems to be a bit off from the actual implementation.

See the actual implementation here https://github.com/apereo/cas-overlay-template/blob/6.1/gradle/tasks.gradle, it seems suffix cannot be added for the resources to be acquired.

I tried and actually succeed with the following command:

> ./gradlew getResource -PresourceName=messages

Can you try and see if it would work?

Cheers!

- Andy

[crdaudt]

Indeed, removing the suffix works for me as well.  Likewise, to get one of the template files, for example, templates/layout.html, I find that the following works:

./gradlew getResource -PresourceName=layout

(i.e., without the .html suffix for layout.html).

Thanks Andy!

Carl

[Andy Ng]

glad it helps, also FYI I have submitted a pull request to make suffix also work in the future.
https://github.com/apereo/cas-overlay-template/pull/40

if you want suffix to work as well in your current download project, you can add those logic yourself as well.

cheers!
Andy