Test Runtime Behavior

This section explains how the various configuration pieces come together to run tests.

See also:

Shared Resources

This module has a number of folders that are used by all tests:

  • compose: A collection of Docker Compose scripts that define the basics of the cluster. Each test “inherits” the bits that it needs.
  • compose/environment-configs: Files which define, as environment variables, the runtime properties for each service in the cluster. (See below for details.)
  • assets: The log4j2.xml file used by images for logging.

Container Runtime Structure

The container itself is a bit of a hybrid. The Druid distribution, along with some test-specific extensions, is reused. The container also contains libraries for Kafka, MySQL and MariaDB.

Druid configuration is passed into the container as environment variables, and then converted to a runtime.properties file by the container launch script. Though a bit of a Rube Goldberg mechanism, it does have one important advantage over the usual Druid configs: we can support inheritance and overrides. The various <service>.env files provide the standard configurations. Test-specific Docker Compose files can modify any setting.

The container mounts a shared volume, defined in the target/shared directory of each test module. This volume can provide extra libraries and class path items. The one made available by default is log4j2.xml, but tests can add more as needed.

Container “output” also goes into the shared folder: logs, “cold storage” and so on.

Each container exposes the Java debugger on port 8000, mapped to a different host port for each container.

Each container exposes the usual Druid ports so you can work with the container as you would a local cluster. Two handy tools are the Druid console and the scriptable Python client.

Test Execution

Tests run using the Maven failsafe plugin which is designed for integration tests. The Maven phases are:

  • pre-integration-test: Starts the test cluster with cluster.sh up using Docker Compose.
  • integration-test: Runs tests that start or end with IT.
  • post-integration-test: Stops the test cluster using cluster.sh down
  • verify: Checks the result of the integration tests.

See this example for JUnit setup with failsafe.

The basic process for running a test group (sub-module) is:

  • Cluser startup builds a target/shared directory with items to be mounted into the containers, such as the log4j2.xml file, sample data, etc. The shared directory also holds log files, Druid persistent storage, the metastore (MySQL) DB, etc. See test-image/README.md for details.
  • The test is configured via a druid-cluster/compose.yaml file. This file defines the services to run and their configuration.
  • The cluster.sh up script builds the shared directory, loads the env vars defined when the image was created and starts the cluster.
  • Tests run on the local host within JUnit.
  • The Initialization class loads the cluster configuration (see below), optionally populates the Druid metadata storage, and is used to inject instances into the test.
  • The individual tests run.
  • The cluster.sh down script shuts down the cluster.

cluster.sh uses the generated test-image/target/env.sh for versions and and other environment variables. This ensures that tests run with the same versions used to build the image. It also simplifies the Maven boilerplate to be copy/pasted into each test sub-project.