Hi all, I've been working on a Gradle plugin to make it easier to write integration tests for applications that use Apache Geode, and would like to discuss where it should reside.
To give some background, we have a JUnit Rule called GfshRule that lets you write tests that execute gfsh commands. The rule is exported in geode-junit, so developers of Geode applications can use the rule to start up a transient cluster for their own integration testing, among other things. However, the rule relies on having the GEODE_HOME environment variable set to an existing installation of Geode, which can be problematic for CI environments or tests running inside of containers. The Gradle plugin will add a task that downloads a distribution of Geode via Maven, unzips it into build/install/apache-geode, and sets the proper environment variable for any tests that are run through Gradle. It would be nice to avoid having the releases of Geode and the plugin tied together, so I thought I would suggest having a separate repository for the plugin (similar to geode-examples). Does anyone have thoughts on whether that's the correct place for the plugin to live, or on what it should be called? geode-integration-gradle-plugin? Any feedback is appreciated, - Jared P.S. If you want to take a look at the work in progress, it's been pushed here for now: https://github.com/jaredjstewart/geode-integration-plugin <https://github.com/jaredjstewart/geode-integration-plugin>
