Method Detail

• public Manifest attributes(Map<String, ?> attributes)

  Adds content to the main attributes of the manifest.

  throws:

  ManifestException If a key is invalid according to the manifest spec or if a key or value is null.

  Returns:

  this

  Parameters:

  attributes - The values to add to the main attributes. The values can be any object. For evaluating the value objects their Object.toString method is used. This is done lazily either before writing or when getEffectiveManifest() is called.

• public Manifest attributes(Map<String, ?> attributes, String sectionName)

  Adds content to the given section of the manifest.

  throws:

  ManifestException If a key is invalid according to the manifest spec or if a key or value is null.

  Returns:

  this

  Parameters:

  attributes - The values to add to the section. The values can be any object. For evaluating the value objects their Object.toString method is used. This is done lazily either before writing or when getEffectiveManifest() is called.

  sectionName - The name of the section

• public Manifest from(Object... mergePath)

  Specifies other manifests to be merged into this manifest. A merge path can either be another instance of Manifest or a file path as interpreted by Project.files. The merge is not happening instantaneously. It happens either before writing or when getEffectiveManifest() is called.

  Returns:

  this

  Parameters:

  mergePath

• public Manifest from(Object mergePath, Closure<?> closure)

  Specifies other manifests to be merged into this manifest. A merge path is interpreted as described in from(Object...). The merge is not happening instantaneously. It happens either before writing or when getEffectiveManifest() is called. The closure configures the underlying ManifestMergeSpec.

  Returns:

  this

  Parameters:

  mergePath

  closure

• public Attributes getAttributes()

  Returns the main attributes of the manifest.

• public Manifest getEffectiveManifest()

  Returns a new manifest instance where all the attribute values are expanded (e.g. their toString method is called). The returned manifest also contains all the attributes of the to be merged manifests specified in from(Object...).

• public Map<String, Attributes> getSections()

  Returns the sections of the manifest (excluding the main section).

  Returns:

  A map with the sections, where the key represents the section name and value the section attributes.

• public Manifest writeTo(Writer writer)

  Writes the manifest into a writer.

  Returns:

  this

  Parameters:

  writer - The writer to write the manifest to

• public Manifest writeTo(Object path)

  Writes the manifest into a file. The path's are resolved as defined by Project.files

  Returns:

  this

  Parameters:

  path - The path of the file to write the manifest into.