Developing the Aurora Scheduler

The Aurora scheduler is written in Java code and built with Gradle.

Prerequisite

When using Apache Aurora checked out from the source repository or the binary distribution, the Gradle wrapper and JavaScript dependencies are provided. However, you need to manually install them when using the source release downloads:

  1. Install Gradle following the instructions on the Gradle web site
  2. From the root directory of the Apache Aurora project generate the Gradle wrapper by running:

    gradle wrapper

Getting Started

You will need Java 8 installed and on your PATH or unzipped somewhere with JAVA_HOME set. Then

./gradlew tasks

will bootstrap the build system and show available tasks. This can take a while the first time you run it but subsequent runs will be much faster due to cached artifacts.

Running the Tests

Aurora has a comprehensive unit test suite. To run the tests use

./gradlew build

Gradle will only re-run tests when dependencies of them have changed. To force a re-run of all tests use

./gradlew clean build

Running the build with code quality checks

To speed up development iteration, the plain gradle commands will not run static analysis tools. However, you should run these before posting a review diff, and always run this before pushing a commit to origin/master.

./gradlew build -Pq

Running integration tests

To run the same tests that are run in the Apache Aurora continuous integration environment:

./build-support/jenkins/build.sh

In addition, there is an end-to-end test that runs a suite of aurora commands using a virtual cluster:

./src/test/sh/org/apache/aurora/e2e/test_end_to_end.sh

Creating a bundle for deployment

Gradle can create a zip file containing Aurora, all of its dependencies, and a launch script with

./gradlew distZip

or a tar file containing the same files with

./gradlew distTar

The output file will be written to dist/distributions/aurora-scheduler.zip or dist/distributions/aurora-scheduler.tar.

Developing Aurora Java code

Setting up an IDE

Gradle can generate project files for your IDE. To generate an IntelliJ IDEA project run

./gradlew idea

and import the generated aurora.ipr file.

Adding or Upgrading a Dependency

New dependencies can be added from Maven central by adding a compile dependency to build.gradle. For example, to add a dependency on com.example’s example-lib 1.0 add this block:

compile 'com.example:example-lib:1.0'

NOTE: Anyone thinking about adding a new dependency should first familiarize themselves with the Apache Foundation’s third-party licensing policy.

Developing the Aurora Build System

Bootstrapping Gradle

The following files were autogenerated by gradle wrapper using gradle’s Wrapper plugin and should not be modified directly:

./gradlew
./gradlew.bat
./gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
./gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

To upgrade Gradle unpack the new version somewhere, run /path/to/new/gradle wrapper in the repository root and commit the changed files.