Integration Test - Dependencies

wskdeploy supports dependencies where it allows you to declare other OpenWhisk packages that your application or project (manifest) is dependent on. With declaring dependent packages, wskdeploy supports automatic deployment of those dependent packages.

For example, our root-app application is dependent on child-app package located at https://github.com/apache/child-app. We can declare this dependency in manifest.yaml with:

packages:
  root-app:
    namespace: guest
    dependencies:
      child-app:
        location: github.com/apache/child-app
    triggers:
      trigger1:
    rules:
      rule1:
        trigger: trigger1
        action: child-app/hello

Note:

1. Package name of the dependent package child-app should match GitHub repo name github.com/apache/child-app.
2. wskdeploy creates a directory named Packages and clones GitHub repo of dependent package under Packages. Now the repo is cloned and renamed to <package>-<branch>. Here in our example, wskdeploy clones repo under Packages and renames it to child-app-master.
3. Dependent packages must have manifest.yml.