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acs-community-packaging/dev/README.md
Alan Davis a04a90d721 ACS-1611 Add AGS to acs-community-packagingFeature/ags reorg (#1358)
[release] 7.1.0-A4

Co-authored-by: Cezar.Leahu <cezar.leahu@ness.com>
2021-06-01 13:14:14 +01:00

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Development Tomcat Environment

It is possible to use Docker containers to test your code, but it is normally more convenient to simply run the repository webapp (alfresco.war) in a tomcat instance.

Build -repo projects

Build the alfresco-community-repo (if you have not done so already), so that your changes are in the community alfresco.war file.

$ # The `comR` alias includes the following commands:
$ cd alfresco-community-repo
$ mvn clean install -Pbuild-docker-images  -DskipTests=true -Dversion.edition=Community
$ cd ..

Docker test environment

The repository code will need to talk to other ACS components, such as a databases, message queue and transformers. The simplest way to create these, is to use the docker-compose.yml file in the dev directory.

$ # The `envUp` alias is the same as the following commands:
$ cd acs-community-packaging
$ docker-compose -f dev/docker-compose.yml up -d
Creating dev_transform-core-aio_1 ... done
Creating dev_postgres_1           ... done
Creating dev_solr6_1              ... done
Creating dev_activemq_1           ... done
$ cd ..

Alfresco Global Properties and Log4j

Set any alfresco-global.properties or log4j properties you may need in the following files. They will be copied to the dev/dev-acs-amps-overlay/target directory. Other customisations may also be placed in the extension directory.

dev/dev-tomcat/src/main/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/custom-log4j.properties
dev/dev-tomcat/src/main/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties

Tomcat

Create the development tomcat environment, apply AMPs on top of the repository code, and run tomcat. The run profile is what starts tomcat. The withShare applies the Share services AMP and adds the share.war to tomcat. Once started, you will be able to access Share on http://localhost:8080/share and various repository endpoints via http://localhost:8080/alfresco/. entT is an alias for the following command and entTDebug will allow a debugger to be attached.

$ # The alias comT is the same as the following commands. comTDebug may also be used.
$ cd acs-community-packaging
$ mvn clean install -Prun -rf dev
$ cd ..
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Development Tomcat Environment                                     [pom]
[INFO] Tomcat Configuration                                               [pom]
[INFO] Repo WAR with amps                                                 [war]
[INFO] Share WAR with amps                                                [war]
[INFO] Tomcat                                                             [war]
...
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
$ cd ..

If you kill the tomcat instance (^C) and wish to restart it, use the following command or the comO alias, or comODebug to attach a debuger.

$ mvn install -Prun,withShare -rf dev-acs-amps-overlay

Clean up

When finished, kill the tomcat instance and stop the Docker instances. You will normally also remove the Docker containers, as you will need a clean database if you are going to issue another mvn clean install command.

$ ^C
... Stopped 'sysAdmin' subsystem, ID: [sysAdmin, default]

$ docker-compose -f dev/docker-compose.yml stop
Stopping dev_transform-core-aio_1 ... done
Stopping dev_transform-router_1   ... done
Stopping dev_solr6_1              ... done
Stopping dev_postgres_1           ... done
Stopping dev_activemq_1           ... done
Stopping dev_shared-file-store_1  ... done

$ docker-compose -f dev/docker-compose.yml rm
Going to remove dev_transform-core-aio_1, dev_transform-router_1, dev_solr6_1, dev_postgres_1, dev_activemq_1, dev_shared-file-store_1
Are you sure? [yN] y
Removing dev_transform-core-aio_1 ... done
Removing dev_transform-router_1   ... done
Removing dev_solr6_1              ... done
Removing dev_postgres_1           ... done
Removing dev_activemq_1           ... done
Removing dev_shared-file-store_1  ... done

If you have not removed the containers, it is possible to restart the tomcat instance with a mvn install (no clean), but this may result in failures if there are incompatibilities between the code, database and content in dev/dev-acs-amps-overlay/target/dev-instance/runtime/alf_data. Any changes made to alfresco-global properties or log4j will not be picked up, unless you directly edit dev/dev-acs-amps-overlay/target/dev-instance/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/custom-log4j.properties and dev/dev-acs-amps-overlay/target/dev-instance/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties, but they will be thrown away on the next mvn clean.

Aliases

You may also find the aliases specified in the following file useful, as they will help you only build selected parts of the code base and will save you lots of typing.

Aliases ending in D provide Maven commands for building local Docker images. The AMPS environment variable will be of interest, if you wish to build AMPs included in the repo and share projects.

The aliases file includes a more detailed description.

$ source acs-community-packaging/dev/aliases