Export War file from Eclipse Web Project with Gradle -- hope it saves some time for gradle newbies like me

build.gradle

//Export War file from Eclipse Web Project with Gradle

// we need to use war plugin
apply plugin: 'war'

//default webAppDirName in gradle is not "WebContent" but 
// it is default in eclise so change it according to eclipse layout
// it encapsulates all files under webAppDirName
webAppDirName = 'WebContent'

// build directory of gradle, it is default "build" and
// we don't need to change it. I changed because I dont want eclipse
// and gradle build to be mixed. 
buildDir = 'gradle_build'

// src is not default java source dir in gradle 
// so change srcDir and resources srcDir 
//according to eclipse project layout  
sourceSets {
  main {
     java {
	      srcDir 'src'
     }
     resources {
       srcDir 'src'
     }
  } 
}

//I have just realized that we did not need repositories definiton below
//But it should be tested again after removing below lines
repositories {
   flatDir { dirs "WebContent/WEB-INF/lib","libs"}
}

// In eclipse project, we generally add all dependecies under
//WEB-INF/lib for runtime.
// I also used libs directory for only compile time,
// we added two directory below to make gradle build successfully.
//It is defined as "providedCompile" which says gradle that do not 
//add these libraries to
//war file explicitly because it will be available in runtime.
//btw, we already let gradle add all files to war under WebContent 
dependencies {
  providedCompile fileTree(dir:'WebContent/WEB-INF/lib', include:'*.jar')
  providedCompile fileTree(dir:'libs', include:'*.jar')
}

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