Self containing jar

Hey,

I have just migrated my page from pebble to jte and I love it. Thank you very much for this great project!

When trying to compile a self containing a jar, I tried your approach, which did not properly work for some reason, and also fcked up my project since the build/ directory got added to the srcSet. So what I did instead, is quite simple, and seems to work very well:

I used the other approach, but kept the precompiled-loading from the other approach (TemplateEngine.createPrecompiled(ContentType.Html)). I then added this snippet to my gradle jar task:

from fileTree("jte-classes") {
    include "**/*.class"
}

Which copies the compile output to the jar. (I also had to add dependsOn precompileJte at the beginning of my jar task). Just wanted to let you know, maybe it is of some use to you or fellow users of this library.

[gringofe]

@gringofe thank you, that’s amazing to hear!

Thanks for sharing your setup, that indeed sounds very good.

Do you think it makes sense to add this to the documentation, as a third way to setup gradle?

I think it would make sense, even if it’s just a “fallback” option btw, when using binary output mode, you also need to add include "**/*.bin"

[edward3h]

I only have a small experimental project, but the documented approach is working fine for me https://github.com/edward3h/fcgi-with-graal/blob/main/test-javalin/build.gradle