Is it possible to define

resource

target using a directory which has multiple directories inside it? In general, whatever examples I see in docs are using single or multiple files, but hardly with directories.

That’s because recursive patterns are discouraged in favour of having

BUILD

files at all levels. But

**

is a recursive wildcard pattern, so you can use things like

sources=["conf/**/*.cfg"]

when the alternative is not viable.

I have a directory with bunch of csv files which I need to package with the python distribution. According to

pants

, I should put a BUILD file inside this directory?

I think it is legitimate to have a single

resources

target for the whole csv tree, if they always go together as a bundle.

# BUILD
resources(
  name="csv_resources",
  sources=["csv-files/**/*.csv"]
)

See https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.9/docs/resources regarding

resources

vs

files

in case the latter is more appropriate for your use case.