Gradle not excluding specified file

Question

I have added exclude statement but still my exclude abc/object/MyTestConfig*.class are getting added in jar, any reason why ?

jar {
  zip64 true

  from((configurations.compile - configurations.jarDepends).collect { it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it) }) {
    exclude "META-INF/*.SF"
    exclude "META-INF/*.DSA"
    exclude "META-INF/*.RSA"
  }
  from ("$projectDir/src/main/java/") {
    include "**/*.hbm.xml", 
            "abc/tools/xml/XMLClasses.MF"
    exclude "abc/object/MyTestConfig*.class"
  }
}

task filterVersionConstants(type: Copy) {
  from "src/main/java/abc/"
  into "src/main/java/abc/"
  include "VersionConstants.tmpl"
  exclude "**/MyTestConfig*.class"
  rename { String fileName -> 
      fileName.replace('.tmpl', '.java')
}

Answer 1

After couple of trial and error, finally I'm able to exclude this file from my jar as below. Basically I need to pull exclude statement in jar task at first.

jar {
  zip64 true
  exclude "abc/object/MyTestConfig*.class"

  from((configurations.compile - configurations.jarDepends).collect { it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it) }) {
    exclude "META-INF/*.SF"
    exclude "META-INF/*.DSA"
    exclude "META-INF/*.RSA"
  }
  from ("$projectDir/src/main/java/") {
    include "**/*.hbm.xml", 
            "abc/tools/xml/XMLClasses.MF"
  }
}