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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+// Following Gradle best practices to keep build logic organized
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Installation subtasks, not used currently, we use "make install/fast"
+task installDist(type: Copy, group: 'Install') {
+    description = "Copy Thrift JAR and dependencies into $installPath location"
+
+    destinationDir = file(installPath)
+
+    from jar
+    from configurations.compile
+}
+
+task installJavadoc(type: Copy, group: 'Install', dependsOn: javadoc) {
+    description = "Install Thrift JavaDoc into $installJavadocPath location"
+
+    destinationDir = file(installJavadocPath)
+
+    from javadoc.destinationDir
+}
+
+// This is not needed by Gradle builds but the remaining Ant builds seem to
+// need access to the generated test classes for Thrift unit tests so we
+// assist them to use it this way.
+task copyDependencies(type: Copy, group: 'Build') {
+    description = 'Copy runtime dependencies in a common location for other Ant based projects'
+    project.assemble.dependsOn it
+
+    destinationDir = file("$buildDir/deps")
+    from configurations.testRuntime
+    // exclude some very specific unit test dependencies
+    exclude '**/junit*.jar', '**/mockito*.jar', '**/hamcrest*.jar'
+}
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Allow this configuration to be shared between install and uploadArchives tasks
+def configurePom(pom) {
+    pom.project {
+        name 'Apache Thrift'
+        description 'Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development.'
+        packaging 'jar'
+        url 'http://thrift.apache.org'
+
+        scm {
+            url 'https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=thrift.git'
+            connection 'scm:git:https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/thrift.git'
+            developerConnection 'scm:git:https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/thrift.git'
+        }
+
+        licenses {
+            license {
+                name 'The Apache Software License, Version 2.0'
+                url "${project.license}"
+                distribution 'repo'
+            }
+        }
+
+        developers {
+            developer {
+                id 'dev'
+                name 'Apache Thrift Developers'
+                email 'dev@thrift.apache.org'
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    pom.whenConfigured {
+        // Fixup the scope for servlet-api to be 'provided' instead of 'compile'
+        dependencies.find { dep -> dep.groupId == 'javax.servlet' && dep.artifactId == 'servlet-api' }.with {
+            // it.optional = true
+            it.scope = 'provided'
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+install {
+    repositories.mavenInstaller {
+        configurePom(pom)
+    }
+}
+
+uploadArchives {
+    dependsOn test // make sure we run unit tests when publishing
+    repositories.mavenDeployer {
+        // signPom will silently do nothing when no signing information is provided
+        beforeDeployment { MavenDeployment deployment -> signing.signPom(deployment) }
+        repository(url: project.mavenRepositoryUrl) {
+            if (project.hasProperty('mavenUser') && project.hasProperty('mavenPassword')) {
+                authentication(userName: mavenUser, password: mavenPassword)
+            }
+        }
+        configurePom(pom)
+    }
+}
+
+// Signing configuration, optional, only when release and uploadArchives is activated
+signing {
+    required { !version.endsWith("SNAPSHOT") && gradle.taskGraph.hasTask("uploadArchives") }
+    sign configurations.archives
+}