From 2ba2cfe23db4fb289f79b364ce24da846a54c2c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Wilkinson <awilkinson@pivotal.io>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 16:25:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Document build-time property expansion using Gradle

Closes gh-1540
---
 .../asciidoc/production-ready-features.adoc   | 40 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/production-ready-features.adoc b/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/production-ready-features.adoc
index 8772c345a06..f1594a5e530 100644
--- a/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/production-ready-features.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/production-ready-features.adoc
@@ -195,9 +195,20 @@ exposed. For example, you could add the following to your `application.propertie
 	info.app.version=1.0.0
 ----
 
-If you are using Maven, you can automatically expand info properties from the Maven
-project using resource filtering. In your `pom.xml` you have (inside the `<build/>`
-element):
+
+
+[[production-ready-application-info-automatic-expansion]]
+==== Automatically expand info properties at build time
+Rather than hardcoding some properties that are also specified in your project's
+build configuration, you can automatically expand info properties using the
+existing build configuration instead. This is possible in both Maven and Gradle.
+
+
+
+[[production-ready-application-info-automatic-expansion-maven]]
+===== Automatic property expansion using Maven
+You can automatically expand info properties from the Maven project using resource
+filtering. In your `pom.xml` you have (inside the `<build/>` element):
 
 [source,xml,indent=0]
 ----
@@ -228,6 +239,29 @@ fallbacks if the Maven resource filtering has not been switched on for some reas
 
 
 
+[[production-ready-application-info-automatic-expansion-gradle]]
+===== Automatic property expansion using Gradle
+You can automatically expand info properties from the Gradle project by configuring
+the Java plugin's `processResources` task to do so:
+
+[source,groovy,indent=0]
+----
+processResources {
+	expand(project.properties)
+}
+----
+
+You can then refer to your Gradle project's properties via placeholders, e.g.
+
+[source,properties,indent=0]
+----
+	info.build.name=${name}
+	info.build.description=${description}
+	info.build.version=${version}
+----
+
+
+
 [[production-ready-git-commit-information]]
 ==== Git commit information
 Another useful feature of the `info` endpoint is its ability to publish information