java - Building an uberjar with Gradle

Question

I want to build an uberjar (AKA fatjar) that includes all the transitive dependencies of the project. What lines do I need to add to build.gradle?

This is what I currently have:

task uberjar(type: Jar) {
    from files(sourceSets.main.output.classesDir)

    manifest {
        attributes 'Implementation-Title': 'Foobar',
                'Implementation-Version': version,
                'Built-By': System.getProperty('user.name'),
                'Built-Date': new Date(),
                'Built-JDK': System.getProperty('java.version'),
                'Main-Class': mainClassName
    }
}

Answer 1

I replaced the task uberjar(.. with the following:

jar {
    from(configurations.compile.collect { it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it) }) {
        exclude "META-INF/*.SF"
        exclude "META-INF/*.DSA"
        exclude "META-INF/*.RSA"
    }

    manifest {
        attributes 'Implementation-Title': 'Foobar',
                'Implementation-Version': version,
                'Built-By': System.getProperty('user.name'),
                'Built-Date': new Date(),
                'Built-JDK': System.getProperty('java.version'),
                'Main-Class': mainClassName
    }
}

The exclusions are needed because in their absence you will hit this issue.