Play 2.4.x - Assets duplication

Miguel Peixoto

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Jun 2, 2016, 1:34:39 PM6/2/16

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In a Play 2.4.6 app I'm working on the assets are being duplicated in stage/dist tasks.

Basically it is a app with 3 submodules, with all the assets present in the main public folder. I don't have sbt-web enabled and have no webjars dependencies (but from the jar contents Play may be using them somewhere).

If I use PlayKeys.externalizeResources := false I end up with two jar files in the lib folder:

* myapp-server.myapp-server-0.9.6-assets.jar
* myapp-server.myapp-server-0.9.6.jar

The first one contains the assets, as it should. The 2nd should contain my main project class files, but it has also a META-INF/resources/webjars/myapp-server/0.9.6 folder containing every asset from the public folder!

If I use PlayKeys.externalizeResources := true I get the exact same behavior, but the extra META-INF/resources folder is present in myapp-server.myapp-server-0.9.6-externalized-resources.jar instead.

So how can I get rid of that extra assets folder? I have a lot of assets so that extra folder adds a lot to the package size...

StackOverflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37598479/play-2-4-x-assets-duplication

Miguel Peixoto

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Jun 9, 2016, 11:53:39 AM6/9/16

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Anyone?

Fong Huang Yee

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Jul 21, 2016, 6:58:09 AM7/21/16

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Hi Miguel,

I have the same issue as yours, so far do you found any solution?

Miguel Peixoto

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Aug 1, 2016, 7:57:50 AM8/1/16

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Hi. Take a look here and see if it solves your problem. If you still have the same problem, there is an issue in Github you can comment on.

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