withSourcesJar

Enables generating a sources artifact for the main feature of this project. If no components with a main feature are defined for this project, this has no effect.

Adds a task sourcesJar that will package the Java sources of the main SourceSet in a JAR with classifier sources.

The produced artifact is registered as a documentation variant on the java component and added as a dependency on the assemble task. This means that if maven-publish or ivy-publish is also applied, the sources JAR will be published.

If the project already has a task named sourcesJar then no task is created.

The publishing of the sources variant can be disabled using skip through withVariantsFromConfiguration, if it should only be built locally by calling or wiring the ':sourcesJar' task.