This is an alternate potential fix for JENKINS-66988.

It reverts the current fix and updates the war task configuration to the jpi task configuration. jenkinsci/gradle-jpi-plugin@4f4495a (first released in v0.39.0 of the jpi plugin) stopped applying the war plugin in favor of defining a jpi task that was of type War. This was not previously included in the migration guide for v0.39.0 (jenkinsci/gradle-jpi-plugin#139), but I will add it there now with a reference to this change.

I believe this is working as expected. Here is what I did to verify the api-viewer files were included in the generated plugin archive:

$ ./gradlew jpi
$ zipinfo -1 ./job-dsl-plugin/build/libs/job-dsl.hpi
META-INF/
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
WEB-INF/
WEB-INF/lib/
WEB-INF/lib/job-dsl-1.79-SNAPSHOT.jar
WEB-INF/lib/job-dsl-core-1.79-SNAPSHOT.jar
WEB-INF/lib/groovy-all-2.4.12.jar
WEB-INF/lib/xmlunit-1.4.jar
WEB-INF/licenses.xml
api-viewer/
api-viewer/config.json
images/
images/48x48/
images/48x48/directory.png
api-viewer/index.html
api-viewer/build/
api-viewer/build/dist/
api-viewer/build/dist/fonts/
api-viewer/build/dist/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf
api-viewer/build/dist/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.eot
api-viewer/build/dist/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff2
api-viewer/build/dist/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.svg
api-viewer/build/dist/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff
api-viewer/build/dist/css/
api-viewer/build/dist/css/app.css
api-viewer/build/dist/js/
api-viewer/build/dist/js/app.js

Related:

• Allow tweaking WAR generation from consumers gradle-jpi-plugin#193

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