[Fiware-middleware] Links and template-project to start with gradle

[Dmitri Rubinstein]

On 11/12/14 09:03, Marti Christof (mach) wrote:
> Hi Dmitri
>
> This operator was introduced with Java 7 (javac 1.7), as many other nice enhancements.
> (Before you had to type Map<String,String> m = new HashMap<String,String>() )
> That is one of the reasons, I want to go to 1.7 or 1.8 asap.

I would like to use at least 1.7, 1.8 is still pretty new and for 
example not supported on Android.

>
> To fix this you must change the “sourceCompatibility" entry in build.gradle to 1.7 or higher.
> But then we start getting the problems with the antlr4 annotation processor.
> Another option would be to disable the annotation processor (?) or provide our own version of (4.4.1) which is on the antlr4 master tree.

I am not familiar with antlr4 annotations, do we need this feature ?

Best,

Dmitri

>
> BR,
> Christof
>
>> On 12.11.2014, at 00:38, Dmitri Rubinstein <Dmitri.Rubinstein at dfki.de> wrote:
>>
>> I created gradle project with your project file, but diamond operator
>> does not work:
>>
>> Map<String, String> m = new HashMap<>();
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Dmitri
>>
>> On 11/11/14 20:32, Marti Christof (mach) wrote:
>>> Hi everybody
>>>
>>> I put together some starter links about gradle and created a template project for kiara, which adds some plugins and configuration to support and integrate with antlr4, maven, eclipse and IntelliJ Idea.
>>>
>>> Gradle-UserGuide & References: http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/userguide.html
>>> (you'll find almost everything there)
>>> Gradle-Plugins registry: http://plugins.gradle.org
>>> (e.g. the antlr4 plugin entry is here: http://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/me.champeau.gradle.antlr4)
>>>
>>> Good-Intro about why and how (compared to Ant/Maven) from the creator Hans Dockter (if you have time: 85’):
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a91dBLX8Qc
>>>
>>> Here you’ll find the kiara-gradle-template project:
>>> https://github.com/christofmarti/kiara-gradle-template
>>> (it does not contain any KIARA specific files yet; only a typical project hierarchy and configuration for the plugins)
>>>
>>> If you clone it, you can use "./gradlew” (resp. gradlew.bat) to call the correct version of gradle, without preinstalling gradle. (e.g. change to project dir and execute "./gradlew tasks" to list all available tasks)
>>> The main advantage of the wrapper is, that always the correct version of the tool is used. If not available it will be downloaded and installed locally from the path defined in ./gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties.
>>>
>>> To create eclipse project files type "./gradlew eclipse"
>>> To create IntelliJ IDEA project files type "./gradlew idea"
>>> "./gradlew build" builds and assembles the whole project (incl. processing antlr4 files)
>>> “./gradlew clean” removes all generated files (but not eclipse or idea configs; use cleanEclipse or cleanIdea for this).
>>>
>>> I included a community plugin for antlr4. Sources have to be in src/main/antlr4/ (configureable).
>>> I had to add some Java version fixes, because the annotation processor of antlr only supports Java 7&8 from version 4.4.1 which is not yet in the repositories (see: https://github.com/antlr/antlr4/issues/487)
>>>
>>>
>>> @Dmitry:
>>> If you have a maven (pom) project, you can create an initial gradle configuration using:
>>> "gradle init --type pom”
>>> This needs a full gradle installation, not the wrapper
>>> (see http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/build_init_plugin.html#N14BBA for details)
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Christof
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