MarkLogic Data Hub welcomes new contributors. This document will guide you through the process.
If you find a bug in the source code or a mistake in the documentation, you can help us by submitting an issue to our GitHub Issue Tracker. Even better you can submit a Pull Request with a fix for the issue you filed.
You can request a new feature by submitting an issue to our GitHub Issue Tracker. If you would like to implement a new feature then first create a new issue and discuss it with one of our project maintainers. #####Note: as of DHF 2.0.3, pull requests will only be accepted for MarkLogic 9. Only critical bug fixes will be accepted for MarkLogic 8 on the legacy 2.0.2 or earlier branches.
Looking to build the code from source? Look no further.
You need these to get started
- MarkLogic 9+
- Java 8 JDK
- Gradle (3.4 or greater)
- A decent IDE. IntelliJ is nice.
First, a warning. The DHF has a ton of tests and they take a very long time to run. Considering you might not want to invest 30 minutes to wait for tests these instructions will show you how to skip the tests.
Do you need to do this? - only if you are wanting to build the entire DHF final products (marklogic-data-hub.jar, quickstart.war, and ml-data-hub-plugin for gradle)
Simply run this command:
cd /path/to/data-hub-project/
./gradlew build -x test
This is for when you really want to use a local copy of the Gradle Plugin in your Data Hub Framework Project. Perhaps you are testing out a change to the ml-data-hub Gradle plugin or you have a cutting edge development version. There are very few valid reasons for you to do this.
Still here? Seems you really want to use a local copy of the Gradle Plugin in your Data Hub Framework Project. Here's how to tell Gradle to use your local copy instead of the one living up on the Cloud.
First you must publish your Data Hub Plugin to the local maven repository.
cd /path/to/data-hub-project/
./gradlew publishToMavenLocal
cd /path/to/data-hub-project/ml-data-hub-plugin
./gradlew publishToMavenLocal
Then in your DHF project's build.gradle file you will need to use the local version:
// this goes at the top above the plugins section
buildscript {
repositories {
mavenLocal()
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath "com.marklogic:ml-data-hub:(the version number you chose)"
}
}
plugins {
...
// comment out this line. It pulls the version from the cloud
// id 'com.marklogic.ml-data-hub' version '2.0.4'
}
// this tells gradle to apply the plugin you included above in the buildscript section
apply plugin: "com.marklogic.ml-data-hub"
To run the plugin's unit tests, cd to the ml-data-hub-plugin directory, then:
Run all unit tests
../gradlew test
Run one unit test
../gradlew -Dtest.single=CreateEntityTask test
Note: This change goes in a DHF project's build.gradle. Not the DHF source code's build.gradle.
Make sure you have the prerequisites installed.
You will need to open two terminal windows.
Terminal window 1 - This runs the webapp.
cd /path/to/data-hub-project
./gradlew bootrun
BE AWARE There will be a progress indicator that stops around 90%. This is normal. In gradle land, 100% means it finished running. This stays running indefinitely and thus shows 90%.
> Building 90% > :quick-start:bootRun
Terminal window 2 - This runs the Quickstart UI
cd /path/to/data-hub-project
./gradlew runui
Now open your browser to http://localhost:4200 to use the debug version of the Quickstart UI.
Did the gradle runui
command fail for you? Here's a quick checklist to troubleshoot.
Using straight up gradle:
gradle -v
or if you are using the wrapper:
./gradlew -v
If your gradle wrapper is older than 3.4
then do this:
gradle wrapper --gradle-version 3.4
hint: you should be
Check like so:
git branch
To switch to the develop branch:
git checkout develop
Better make sure...
git pull origin develop
Make sure you have the upstream set:
$ git remote add upstream git://github.com/marklogic-community/marklogic-data-hub.git
Then fetch the upstream:
git fetch upstream develop
Now merge it in:
git rebase upstream/develop
If you are seeing a bunch of javascript errors you might have a messed up node_modules directory. Try to remove it then run again.
rm -rf quick-start/node_modules
Before you submit your issue search the archive, maybe your question was already answered.
If your issue appears to be a bug, and hasn't been reported, open a new issue. Help us to maximize the effort we can spend fixing issues and adding new features, by not reporting duplicate issues. Please fill out the issue template so that your issue can be dealt with quickly.
Fork the project on GitHub and clone your copy.
$ git clone [email protected]:username/marklogic-data-hub.git
$ cd marklogic-data-hub
$ git remote add upstream git://github.com/marklogic-community/marklogic-data-hub.git
We ask that you open an issue in the issue tracker and get agreement from at least one of the project maintainers before you start coding.
Nothing is more frustrating than seeing your hard work go to waste because your vision does not align with that of a project maintainer.
Okay, so you have decided to fix something. Create a feature branch and start hacking. Note that we use git flow and thus our most recent changes live on the develop branch.
$ git checkout -b my-feature-branch -t origin/develop
We use .editorconfig to configure our editors for proper code formatting. If you don't use a tool that supports editorconfig be sure to configure your editor to use the settings equivalent to our .editorconfig file.
Make sure git knows your name and email address:
$ git config --global user.name "J. Random User"
$ git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
Writing good commit logs is important. A commit log should describe what changed and why. Follow these guidelines when writing one:
- The first line should be 50 characters or less and contain a short description of the change including the Issue number prefixed by a hash (#).
- Keep the second line blank.
- Wrap all other lines at 72 columns.
A good commit log looks like this:
Fixing Issue #123: make the whatchamajigger work in MarkLogic 8
Body of commit message is a few lines of text, explaining things
in more detail, possibly giving some background about the issue
being fixed, etc etc.
The body of the commit message can be several paragraphs, and
please do proper word-wrap and keep columns shorter than about
72 characters or so. That way `git log` will show things
nicely even when it is indented.
The header line should be meaningful; it is what other people see when they
run git shortlog
or git log --oneline
.
Use git rebase
(not git merge
) to sync your work from time to time.
$ git fetch upstream
$ git rebase upstream/develop
Make sure the JUnit tests pass.
$ ./gradlew test
If you want to run a single test:
$ ./gradlew -Dtest.single=TestName test
for best results don't include the final word Test. Example: Say you want to run FlowRunnerTest.
$ ./gradlew -Dtest.single=FlowRunner test
If you want to run just the Quick-Start UI End to End tests, you will need nodejs 8.9.1 or later installed:
gradlew bootrun
cd quick-start
npm install
npm install -g protractor
npm run webdriver-update
npm run e2e
Note for e2e tests, the datahub must be running and so must a MarkLogic instance with appservers for 8010-8014 free.
For those that want to run the E2E tests from Intellij or another IDE to fullstack debug you can have add a run/debug task that runs the script "e2e". Make sure to add a 'before launch' task as folows: npm run "webdriver-update".
Make sure that all tests pass. Please, do not submit patches that fail.
$ git push origin my-feature-branch
Before we can merge your changes, you need to sign a Contributor License Agreement. You only need to do this once.
Go to https://github.com/username/marklogic-data-hub and select your feature branch. Click the 'Pull Request' button and fill out the form.
Pull requests are usually reviewed within a few days. If you get comments that need to be to addressed, apply your changes in a separate commit and push that to your feature branch. Post a comment in the pull request afterwards; GitHub does not send out notifications when you add commits to existing pull requests.
That's it! Thank you for your contribution!
After your pull request is merged, you can safely delete your branch and pull the changes from the main (upstream) repository:
-
Delete the remote branch on GitHub either through the GitHub web UI or your local shell as follows:
git push origin --delete my-feature-branch
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Check out the develop branch:
git checkout develop -f
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Delete the local branch:
git branch -D my-feature-branch
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Update your develop with the latest upstream version:
git pull --ff upstream develop