Cassandra-Maven-Plugin

[Stephen Connolly <st...@gmail.com>]

OK,

I nearly have the Cassandra-Maven-Plugin ready.

It has the following goals:
  run: launches Cassandra in the foreground and blocks until you press
^C at which point Maven terminates. Use-case: Running integration
tests from your IDE. Live development from your IDE.

  start: launches Cassandra in the background. Cassandra will be torn
down when Maven ends or if the stop goal is called. Use-case: Running
integration tests from Maven. Live development from your IDE with e.g.
jetty

  clean: Clears out the Cassandra database directory in
${basedir}/target/cassandra. Use-case: Resetting the dataset.

  load: Runs the cassandra-cli with a file as input.  Use-case:
Creating Keyspaces & pre-populating the dataset

  stop: Shuts down the background Cassandra instance started by start.
Use-case: Running integration tests from Maven.

So for example, if you are developing a web application using Maven
you would use a command like:

mvn cassandra:clean cassandra:start cassandra:load jetty:run

which would start up cassandra with a clean dataset and then start up
jetty (which presumably connects via a client library to cassandra).

Similarly, you can use cassandra-maven-plugin, jetty-maven-plugin,
maven-failsafe-plugin and selenium-maven-plugin to run web integration
tests as part of your build.

So I have some questions:

1. Is there a standard file extension for the scripts that get passed
to cassandra-cli?

2. Is there any other obvious goal I have missed out on?

There is a small bit of tidy-up left and then I just have to add some
integration tests and the site documentation.  Once I have all that in
place I will raise a JIRA with the full source code against CASSANDRA
and hopefully a friendly committer will pick it up and commit it into
the tree. While waiting for a committer testers will be welcome.

If it gets accepted I will then see about getting it released and
published on central.

Expect to see the JIRA sometime Monday or Tuesday.

-Stephen

Re: Cassandra-Maven-Plugin

[Stephen Connolly <st...@gmail.com>]

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1997

On 16 January 2011 19:59, Stephen Connolly
<st...@gmail.com> wrote:
> it will be an attachment to an as yet un raised jira. look out for it
> tomorrow/tuesday
>
> - Stephen
>
> ---
> Sent from my Android phone, so random spelling mistakes, random nonsense
> words and other nonsense are a direct result of using swype to type on the
> screen
>
> On 16 Jan 2011 17:52, "Hellmut Adolphs" <ha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

Re: Cassandra-Maven-Plugin

[Stephen Connolly <st...@gmail.com>]

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1997

On 16 January 2011 19:59, Stephen Connolly
<st...@gmail.com> wrote:
> it will be an attachment to an as yet un raised jira. look out for it
> tomorrow/tuesday
>
> - Stephen
>
> ---
> Sent from my Android phone, so random spelling mistakes, random nonsense
> words and other nonsense are a direct result of using swype to type on the
> screen
>
> On 16 Jan 2011 17:52, "Hellmut Adolphs" <ha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

Re: Cassandra-Maven-Plugin

[Stephen Connolly <st...@gmail.com>]

it will be an attachment to an as yet un raised jira. look out for it
tomorrow/tuesday

- Stephen

---
Sent from my Android phone, so random spelling mistakes, random nonsense
words and other nonsense are a direct result of using swype to type on the
screen
On 16 Jan 2011 17:52, "Hellmut Adolphs" <ha...@gmail.com> wrote:

Re: Cassandra-Maven-Plugin

[Stephen Connolly <st...@gmail.com>]

it will be an attachment to an as yet un raised jira. look out for it
tomorrow/tuesday

- Stephen

---
Sent from my Android phone, so random spelling mistakes, random nonsense
words and other nonsense are a direct result of using swype to type on the
screen
On 16 Jan 2011 17:52, "Hellmut Adolphs" <ha...@gmail.com> wrote:

Re: Cassandra-Maven-Plugin

[Hellmut Adolphs <ha...@gmail.com>]

This is great, where is it available Stephen?

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Stephen Connolly <
stephen.alan.connolly@gmail.com> wrote:

> OK,
>
> I nearly have the Cassandra-Maven-Plugin ready.
>
> It has the following goals:
>  run: launches Cassandra in the foreground and blocks until you press
> ^C at which point Maven terminates. Use-case: Running integration
> tests from your IDE. Live development from your IDE.
>
>  start: launches Cassandra in the background. Cassandra will be torn
> down when Maven ends or if the stop goal is called. Use-case: Running
> integration tests from Maven. Live development from your IDE with e.g.
> jetty
>
>  clean: Clears out the Cassandra database directory in
> ${basedir}/target/cassandra. Use-case: Resetting the dataset.
>
>  load: Runs the cassandra-cli with a file as input.  Use-case:
> Creating Keyspaces & pre-populating the dataset
>
>  stop: Shuts down the background Cassandra instance started by start.
> Use-case: Running integration tests from Maven.
>
> So for example, if you are developing a web application using Maven
> you would use a command like:
>
> mvn cassandra:clean cassandra:start cassandra:load jetty:run
>
> which would start up cassandra with a clean dataset and then start up
> jetty (which presumably connects via a client library to cassandra).
>
> Similarly, you can use cassandra-maven-plugin, jetty-maven-plugin,
> maven-failsafe-plugin and selenium-maven-plugin to run web integration
> tests as part of your build.
>
> So I have some questions:
>
> 1. Is there a standard file extension for the scripts that get passed
> to cassandra-cli?
>
> 2. Is there any other obvious goal I have missed out on?
>
> There is a small bit of tidy-up left and then I just have to add some
> integration tests and the site documentation.  Once I have all that in
> place I will raise a JIRA with the full source code against CASSANDRA
> and hopefully a friendly committer will pick it up and commit it into
> the tree. While waiting for a committer testers will be welcome.
>
> If it gets accepted I will then see about getting it released and
> published on central.
>
> Expect to see the JIRA sometime Monday or Tuesday.
>
> -Stephen
>