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.
Currently we use gradle 8 to build the Thrift Java source. The usual way to setup gradle project is to include the gradle-wrapper.jar in the project and then run the gradle wrapper to bootstrap setting up gradle binaries. However to avoid putting binary files into the source tree we have ignored the gradle wrapper files. You are expected to install it manually, as described in the gradle documentation, or following this step (which is also done in the travis CI docker images):
export GRADLE_VERSION="8.4"
# install dependencies
apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends openjdk-17-jdk-headless wget unzip
# download gradle distribution
wget https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-$GRADLE_VERSION-bin.zip -q -O /tmp/gradle-$GRADLE_VERSION-bin.zip
# check binary integrity
echo "3e1af3ae886920c3ac87f7a91f816c0c7c436f276a6eefdb3da152100fef72ae /tmp/gradle-$GRADLE_VERSION-bin.zip" | sha256sum -c -
# unzip and install
unzip -d /tmp /tmp/gradle-$GRADLE_VERSION-bin.zip
mv /tmp/gradle-$GRADLE_VERSION /usr/local/gradle
ln -s /usr/local/gradle/bin/gradle /usr/local/bin
After the above step, gradle
binary will be available in /usr/local/bin/
. You can further choose
to locally create the gradle wrapper (even if they are ignored) using:
gradle wrapper --gradle-version $GRADLE_VERSION
To compile the Java Thrift libraries, simply do the following:
gradle
Yep, that's easy. Look for libthrift-<version>.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.
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Build the Thrift executable from source at the default location in the source tree. The project is configured to look for it there.
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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.
gradle assemble
To install the library in the local Maven repository location where other Maven or Gradle builds can reference it simply do this.
gradle publishToMavenLocal
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:
gradle -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:
gradle -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 publish
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
NOTE: If you do not have a secring.gpg file, see the gradle signing docs for instructions on how to generate it.
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.
gradle -Prelease=true publish
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:
gradle -Pmaven-repository-url=https://my.company.com/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2 -Prelease=true -Pthrift.version=0.11.0 publish
Gradle http://gradle.org/
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The signature of the 'process' method in TAsyncProcessor and TProcessor has changed to remove the boolean return type and instead rely on Exceptions.
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Per THRIFT-4805, TSaslTransportException has been removed. The same condition is now covered by TTansportException, where
TTransportException.getType() == END_OF_FILE
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The access modifier of the AutoExpandingBuffer class has been changed from public to default (package) and will no longer be accessible by third-party libraries.
The access modifier of the ShortStack class has been changed from public to default (package) and will no longer be accessible by third-party libraries.