Thrift Java Software Library
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When using a CMake build from the source distribution on Linux the easiest way to build and install is this simple command line:
make all && sudo make install/fast
It is important to use the install/fast option to eliminate the automatic rebuild by dependency that causes issues because the build tooling is designed to work with cached files in the user home directory during the build process. Instead this builds the code in the expected local build tree and then uses CMake install code to copy to the target destination.
The Thrift Java source is not build using the GNU tools, but rather uses the Gradle build system, which tends to be predominant amongst Java developers.
To compile the Java Thrift libraries, simply do the following:
./gradlew
Yep, that's easy. Look for libthrift-.jar in the build/libs directory.
The default build will run the unit tests which expect a usable Thrift compiler to exist on the system. You have two choices for that.
Build the Thrift executable from source at the default location in the source tree. The project is configured to look for it there.
Install the published binary distribution to have Thrift executable in a known location and add the path to the ~/.gradle/gradle.properties file using the property name “thrift.compiler”. For example this would set the path in a Windows box if Thrift was installed under C:\Thrift
thrift.compiler=C:/Thrift/thrift.exe
To just build the library without running unit tests you simply do this.
./gradlew assemble
To install the library in the local Maven repository location where other Maven or Gradle builds can reference it simply do this.
./gradlew install
The library will be placed in your home directory under .m2/repository
To include Thrift in your applications simply add libthrift.jar to your classpath, or install if in your default system classpath of choice.
Build Thrift behind a proxy:
./gradlew -Dhttp.proxyHost=myproxyhost -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080 -Dhttp.proxyUser=thriftuser -Dhttp.proxyPassword=topsecret
or via
./configure --with-java GRADLE_OPTS='-Dhttp.proxyHost=myproxyhost -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080 -Dhttp.proxyUser=thriftuser -Dhttp.proxyPassword=topsecret'
The build will automatically generate an HTML Unit Test report. This can be found under build/reports/tests/test/index.html. It can be viewed with a browser directly from that location.
The build will optionally generate Clover Code coverage if the Gradle property cloverEnabled=true is set in ~/.gradle/gradle.properties or on the command line via -PcloverEnabled=true. The generated report can be found under the location build/reports/clover/html/index.html. It can be viewed with a browser directly from that location. Additionally, a PDF report is generated and is found under the location build/reports/clover/clover.pdf.
The following command will build, unit test, and generate Clover reports:
./gradlew -PcloverEnabled=true
The Automake build generates a Makefile that provides the correct parameters when you run the build provided the configure.ac has been set with the correct version number. The Gradle build will receive the correct value for the build. The same applies to the CMake build, the value from the configure.ac file will be used if you execute these commands:
make maven-publish -- This is for an Automake Linux build make MavenPublish -- This is for a CMake generated build
The uploadArchives task in Gradle is preconfigured with all necessary details to sign and publish the artifacts from the build to the Apache Maven staging repository. The task requires the following externally provided properties to authenticate to the repository and sign the artifacts. The preferred approach is to create or edit the ~/.gradle/gradle.properties file and add the following properties to it.
# Signing key information for artifacts PGP signature (values are examples) signing.keyId=24875D73 signing.password=secret signing.secretKeyRingFile=/Users/me/.gnupg/secring.gpg # Apache Maven staging repository user credentials mavenUser=meMyselfAndI mavenPassword=MySuperAwesomeSecretPassword
It is also possible to manually publish using the Gradle build directly. With the key information and credentials in place the following will generate if needed the build artifacts and proceed to publish the results.
./gradlew -Prelease=true -Pthrift.version=0.11.0 uploadArchives
It is also possible to override the target repository for the Maven Publication by using a Gradle property, for example you can publish signed JAR files to your company internal server if you add this to the command line or in the ~/.gradle/gradle.properties file. The URL below assumes a Nexus Repository.
maven-repository-url=https://my.company.com/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2
Or the same on the command line:
./gradlew -Pmaven-repository-url=https://my.company.com/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2 -Prelease=true -Pthrift.version=0.11.0 uploadArchives
Gradle http://gradle.org/