Cloud Native is a style of application development that encourages easy adoption of best practices in the areas of continuous delivery and value-driven development. A related discipline is that of building 12-factor Applications, in which development practices are aligned with delivery and operations goalsโโโfor instance, by using declarative programming and management and monitoring. Spring Cloud facilitates these styles of development in a number of specific ways. The starting point is a set of features to which all components in a distributed system need easy access.
Many of those features are covered by Spring Boot, on which Spring Cloud builds. Some more features are delivered by Spring Cloud as two libraries: Spring Cloud Context and Spring Cloud Commons.
Spring Cloud Context provides utilities and special services for the ApplicationContext
of a Spring Cloud application (bootstrap context, encryption, refresh scope, and environment endpoints). Spring Cloud Commons is a set of abstractions and common classes used in different Spring Cloud implementations (such as Spring Cloud Netflix and Spring Cloud Consul).
If you get an exception due to "Illegal key size" and you use Sunโs JDK, you need to install the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files. See the following links for more information:
Extract the files into the JDK/jre/lib/security folder for whichever version of JRE/JDK x64/x86 you use.
Building
Basic Compile and Test
To build the source you will need to install JDK 17.
Spring Cloud uses Maven for most build-related activities, and you should be able to get off the ground quite quickly by cloning the project you are interested in and typing
$ ./mvnw install
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You can also install Maven (>=3.3.3) yourself and run the mvn command
in place of ./mvnw in the examples below. If you do that you also
might need to add -P spring if your local Maven settings do not
contain repository declarations for spring pre-release artifacts.
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Be aware that you might need to increase the amount of memory
available to Maven by setting a MAVEN_OPTS environment variable with
a value like -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m . We try to cover this in
the .mvn configuration, so if you find you have to do it to make a
build succeed, please raise a ticket to get the settings added to
source control.
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The projects that require middleware (i.e. Redis) for testing generally require that a local instance of [Docker](https://www.docker.com/get-started) is installed and running.
Documentation
The spring-cloud-build module has a "docs" profile, and if you switch
that on it will try to build asciidoc sources from
src/main/asciidoc
. As part of that process it will look for a
README.adoc
and process it by loading all the includes, but not
parsing or rendering it, just copying it to ${main.basedir}
(defaults to ${basedir}
, i.e. the root of the project). If there are
any changes in the README it will then show up after a Maven build as
a modified file in the correct place. Just commit it and push the change.
Working with the code
If you donโt have an IDE preference we would recommend that you use Spring Tools Suite or Eclipse when working with the code. We use the m2eclipse eclipse plugin for maven support. Other IDEs and tools should also work without issue as long as they use Maven 3.3.3 or better.
Activate the Spring Maven profile
Spring Cloud projects require the 'spring' Maven profile to be activated to resolve the spring milestone and snapshot repositories. Use your preferred IDE to set this profile to be active, or you may experience build errors.
Importing into eclipse with m2eclipse
We recommend the m2eclipse eclipse plugin when working with eclipse. If you donโt already have m2eclipse installed it is available from the "eclipse marketplace".
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Older versions of m2e do not support Maven 3.3, so once the
projects are imported into Eclipse you will also need to tell
m2eclipse to use the right profile for the projects. If you
see many different errors related to the POMs in the projects, check
that you have an up to date installation. If you canโt upgrade m2e,
add the "spring" profile to your settings.xml . Alternatively you can
copy the repository settings from the "spring" profile of the parent
pom into your settings.xml .
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Importing into eclipse without m2eclipse
If you prefer not to use m2eclipse you can generate eclipse project metadata using the following command:
$ ./mvnw eclipse:eclipse
The generated eclipse projects can be imported by selecting import existing projects
from the file
menu.
Contributing
Spring Cloud is released under the non-restrictive Apache 2.0 license, and follows a very standard Github development process, using Github tracker for issues and merging pull requests into master. If you want to contribute even something trivial please do not hesitate, but follow the guidelines below.
Sign the Contributor License Agreement
Before we accept a non-trivial patch or pull request we will need you to sign the Contributor License Agreement. Signing the contributorโs agreement does not grant anyone commit rights to the main repository, but it does mean that we can accept your contributions, and you will get an author credit if we do. Active contributors might be asked to join the core team, and given the ability to merge pull requests.
Code of Conduct
This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior to [email protected].
Code Conventions and Housekeeping
None of these is essential for a pull request, but they will all help. They can also be added after the original pull request but before a merge.
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Use the Spring Framework code format conventions. If you use Eclipse you can import formatter settings using the
eclipse-code-formatter.xml
file from the Spring Cloud Build project. If using IntelliJ, you can use the Eclipse Code Formatter Plugin to import the same file. -
Make sure all new
.java
files to have a simple Javadoc class comment with at least an@author
tag identifying you, and preferably at least a paragraph on what the class is for. -
Add the ASF license header comment to all new
.java
files (copy from existing files in the project) -
Add yourself as an
@author
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Add some Javadocs and, if you change the namespace, some XSD doc elements.
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A few unit tests would help a lot as wellโโโsomeone has to do it.
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If no-one else is using your branch, please rebase it against the current master (or other target branch in the main project).
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When writing a commit message please follow these conventions, if you are fixing an existing issue please add
Fixes gh-XXXX
at the end of the commit message (where XXXX is the issue number).
Checkstyle
Spring Cloud Build comes with a set of checkstyle rules. You can find them in the spring-cloud-build-tools
module. The most notable files under the module are:
โโโ src ย ย โโโ checkstyle ย ย โย ย โโโ checkstyle-suppressions.xml (3) ย ย โโโ main ย ย โโโ resources ย ย โโโ checkstyle-header.txt (2) ย ย โโโ checkstyle.xml (1)
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Default Checkstyle rules
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File header setup
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Default suppression rules
Checkstyle configuration
Checkstyle rules are disabled by default. To add checkstyle to your project just define the following properties and plugins.
<properties> <maven-checkstyle-plugin.failsOnError>true</maven-checkstyle-plugin.failsOnError> (1) <maven-checkstyle-plugin.failsOnViolation>true </maven-checkstyle-plugin.failsOnViolation> (2) <maven-checkstyle-plugin.includeTestSourceDirectory>true </maven-checkstyle-plugin.includeTestSourceDirectory> (3) </properties> <build> <plugins> <plugin> (4) <groupId>io.spring.javaformat</groupId> <artifactId>spring-javaformat-maven-plugin</artifactId> </plugin> <plugin> (5) <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId> </plugin> </plugins> <reporting> <plugins> <plugin> (5) <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId> </plugin> </plugins> </reporting> </build>
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Fails the build upon Checkstyle errors
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Fails the build upon Checkstyle violations
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Checkstyle analyzes also the test sources
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Add the Spring Java Format plugin that will reformat your code to pass most of the Checkstyle formatting rules
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Add checkstyle plugin to your build and reporting phases
If you need to suppress some rules (e.g. line length needs to be longer), then itโs enough for you to define a file under ${project.root}/src/checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
with your suppressions. Example:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE suppressions PUBLIC "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Suppressions 1.1//EN" "https://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/suppressions_1_1.dtd"> <suppressions> <suppress files=".*ConfigServerApplication\.java" checks="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/> <suppress files=".*ConfigClientWatch\.java" checks="LineLengthCheck"/> </suppressions>
Itโs advisable to copy the ${spring-cloud-build.rootFolder}/.editorconfig
and ${spring-cloud-build.rootFolder}/.springformat
to your project. That way, some default formatting rules will be applied. You can do so by running this script:
$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-build/master/.editorconfig -o .editorconfig
$ touch .springformat
IDE setup
Intellij IDEA
In order to setup Intellij you should import our coding conventions, inspection profiles and set up the checkstyle plugin. The following files can be found in the Spring Cloud Build project.
โโโ src ย ย โโโ checkstyle ย ย โย ย โโโ checkstyle-suppressions.xml (3) ย ย โโโ main ย ย โโโ resources ย ย โโโ checkstyle-header.txt (2) ย ย โโโ checkstyle.xml (1) ย ย โโโ intellij ย ย ย ย โโโ Intellij_Project_Defaults.xml (4) ย ย ย ย โโโ Intellij_Spring_Boot_Java_Conventions.xml (5)
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Default Checkstyle rules
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File header setup
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Default suppression rules
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Project defaults for Intellij that apply most of Checkstyle rules
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Project style conventions for Intellij that apply most of Checkstyle rules
Go to File
โ Settings
โ Editor
โ Code style
. There click on the icon next to the Scheme
section. There, click on the Import Scheme
value and pick the Intellij IDEA code style XML
option. Import the spring-cloud-build-tools/src/main/resources/intellij/Intellij_Spring_Boot_Java_Conventions.xml
file.
Go to File
โ Settings
โ Editor
โ Inspections
. There click on the icon next to the Profile
section. There, click on the Import Profile
and import the spring-cloud-build-tools/src/main/resources/intellij/Intellij_Project_Defaults.xml
file.
To have Intellij work with Checkstyle, you have to install the Checkstyle
plugin. Itโs advisable to also install the Assertions2Assertj
to automatically convert the JUnit assertions
Go to File
โ Settings
โ Other settings
โ Checkstyle
. There click on the +
icon in the Configuration file
section. There, youโll have to define where the checkstyle rules should be picked from. In the image above, weโve picked the rules from the cloned Spring Cloud Build repository. However, you can point to the Spring Cloud Buildโs GitHub repository (e.g. for the checkstyle.xml
: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-build/master/spring-cloud-build-tools/src/main/resources/checkstyle.xml
). We need to provide the following variables:
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checkstyle.header.file
- please point it to the Spring Cloud Buildโs,spring-cloud-build-tools/src/main/resources/checkstyle-header.txt
file either in your cloned repo or via thehttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-build/master/spring-cloud-build-tools/src/main/resources/checkstyle-header.txt
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checkstyle.suppressions.file
- default suppressions. Please point it to the Spring Cloud Buildโs,spring-cloud-build-tools/src/checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
file either in your cloned repo or via thehttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-build/master/spring-cloud-build-tools/src/checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
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checkstyle.additional.suppressions.file
- this variable corresponds to suppressions in your local project. E.g. youโre working onspring-cloud-contract
. Then point to theproject-root/src/checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
folder. Example forspring-cloud-contract
would be:/home/username/spring-cloud-contract/src/checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
.
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Remember to set the Scan Scope to All sources since we apply checkstyle rules for production and test sources.
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Duplicate Finder
Spring Cloud Build brings along the basepom:duplicate-finder-maven-plugin
, that enables flagging duplicate and conflicting classes and resources on the java classpath.
Duplicate Finder configuration
Duplicate finder is enabled by default and will run in the verify
phase of your Maven build, but it will only take effect in your project if you add the duplicate-finder-maven-plugin
to the build
section of the projecstโs pom.xml
.
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.basepom.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>duplicate-finder-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
For other properties, we have set defaults as listed in the plugin documentation.
You can easily override them but setting the value of the selected property prefixed with duplicate-finder-maven-plugin
. For example, set duplicate-finder-maven-plugin.skip
to true
in order to skip duplicates check in your build.
If you need to add ignoredClassPatterns
or ignoredResourcePatterns
to your setup, make sure to add them in the plugin configuration section of your project:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.basepom.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>duplicate-finder-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<ignoredClassPatterns>
<ignoredClassPattern>org.joda.time.base.BaseDateTime</ignoredClassPattern>
<ignoredClassPattern>.*module-info</ignoredClassPattern>
</ignoredClassPatterns>
<ignoredResourcePatterns>
<ignoredResourcePattern>changelog.txt</ignoredResourcePattern>
</ignoredResourcePatterns>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>