gazelle

Gazelle Java extension

This provides an experimental Gazelle extension to generate build files for Java projects.

Usage

In the WORKSPACE file set up the rules_jvm correctly:

load("@contrib_rules_jvm//:repositories.bzl", "contrib_rules_jvm_deps", "contrib_rules_jvm_gazelle_deps")

contrib_rules_jvm_deps()

contrib_rules_jvm_gazelle_deps()

load("@contrib_rules_jvm//:setup.bzl", "contrib_rules_jvm_setup")

contrib_rules_jvm_setup()

load("@contrib_rules_jvm//:gazelle_setup.bzl", "contrib_rules_jvm_gazelle_setup")

contrib_rules_jvm_gazelle_setup()

In the top level BUILD.bazel file, setup Gazelle to use gazelle-languages binary:

load("@bazel_gazelle//:def.bzl", "DEFAULT_LANGUAGES", "gazelle", "gazelle_binary")

# gazelle:prefix github.com/your/project
gazelle(
    name = "gazelle",
    gazelle = ":gazelle_bin",
)

gazelle_binary(
    name = "gazelle_bin",
    languages = DEFAULT_LANGUAGES + [
        "@contrib_rules_jvm//java/gazelle",
    ],
)

Make sure you have everything setup properly by building the gazelle binary: bazel build //:gazelle_bin

To generate BUILD files:

# Run Gazelle with the java extension
bazel run //:gazelle

Requirements

This gazelle plugin requires Go 1.18 or above.

Configuration options

This Gazelle extension supports some configuration options, which are enabled by adding comments to your root BUILD.bazel file. For example, to set java_maven_install_file, you would add the following to your root BUILD.bazel file:

# gazelle:java_maven_install_file project/main_maven_install.json

See javaconfig/config.go for a list of configuration options and their documentation.

Additionally, some configuration can only be done by flag. See the RegisterFlags function in configure.go for a list of these options.

Troubleshooting

If one forgets to run bazel fetch @maven//..., the code will complain and tell you to run this command.

If one forgets to "Update the Maven mapping", they use out of date data for the rules resolution, and the hash check will fail. An error is printed and the resolution does not happen.

Contibutors documentation

The following are the targets of interest:

• //java/gazelle implements a Gazelle extension
• //java/gazelle/private/javaparser/cmd/javaparser-wrapper wraps the java parser with an activity tracker (to stop the parser) and an adapter to prevent self imports.
• //java/src/com/github/bazel_contrib/contrib_rules_jvm/javaparser/generators:Main is the java parser side process

The maven integration relies on using rules_jvm_external at least as new as https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_jvm_external/pull/716