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How do I copy configuration files as part of a package for use in a deployment?

I am using sbt 0.13.5 to create a project with multiple config files intended for human editing after deployment.

Using the sbt-native-packager stage

command creates a basic output directory structure for deployment. This creates a folder bin

with the start of the script and all my jars in the folder lib

. Fine.

This just leaves the text config files to be copied to the folder conf

verbatim in folders bin/

and lib/

(not included in any jar).

How can I copy these config files to an output directory on the filesystem (not any jars) using sbt?

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The default universal convention is to copy files / directories to src / univeral /. So, to include the conf / directory in the distribution, just add the src / universal / conf files and copy configuration files. Credit: this link



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I'm not sure if there is out-of-the-box support for a directory src/main/conf

or similar, and if you don't find one, use the following as a workaround:

packageArchetype.java_application

mappings in Universal ++= {
  ((sourceDirectory in Compile).value / "conf" * "*").get.map { f => 
    f -> s"conf/${f.name}"
  }
}


It displays files in a directory src/main/conf

in conf

a package.

NB: I'm pretty sure I maintained the code for the directory somewhere conf

.

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This seems to be the best answer as I am using sbt along with the sbt-native-packager plugin:

mappings in Universal ++= contentOf(  baseDirectory.value / "conf" )

This takes all the files in the specified "conf" folder and dumps them into the root folder of the package.

Which is what the MappingsHelper uses , which I came across a very short documentation for it in sbt-native-packager,

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