SDN-R ODLUX and frontend-maven-plugin

SDN-R ODLUX does require compilation of Javascript and Typescript files as runnable code for the Web-Clients.

A specific compilation environment is created, that requires an extension of the actual version of "frontend-maven-plugin".

Dependency is like the code below. Example is in pom of odlux framework in ONAP gerrit: "ccsdk/features":"/sdnr/wt/odlux/framework/pom.xml"

<plugins>
     <plugin>
       <groupId>de.jacksitlab</groupId>
       <artifactId>frontend-maven-plugin</artifactId>
       <version>1.7.1</version>

       Some PLUGIN - CONFIGURATION       

     </plugin>
...

The extension for ONAP SDN-R is published in github repository https://github.com/jacksitlab/frontend-maven-plugin.

Usage in ODLUX pom files

In ONAP ODLUX the plugin is used as already pre-compiled plugin.

For getting it from public available repository, the follwong additonal repository was added to the related ODLUX pom files:

<pluginRepository> 
  <id>highstreet repo</id> 
  <url>https://cloud-highstreet-technologies.com/mvn/</url>
  <snapshots> 
     <enabled>true</enabled> 
     <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy> 
  </snapshots> 
</pluginRepository>

How to compile locally

A further option is to download the source code to a local server and compile to the local ".m2" maven repository.

For compiling the version 1.7.1 of the frontend plugin the environment is

java8 (not java11). For openjdk use "sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk"
mvn 3.6.0 setup for ONAP ( wget git.onap.org/oparent/plain/settings.xml -P ~/.m2)

Download repo

clone the jacksitlab/frontend-maven-plugin using the github link

Compile plugin

cd into frontend-maven-plugin
mvn clean install -DskipTests

After executing the compile the plugin should be in the local repository and can be used.

Example below with user herbert showing result in local ".m2" repository:

herbert@dev-herbert:~/.m2/repository/de/jacksitlab$ ls -l
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 3 herbert herbert 4096 May 15 12:06 frontend-maven-plugin
drwxr-xr-x 3 herbert herbert 4096 May 15 12:00 frontend-plugin-core
drwxr-xr-x 3 herbert herbert 4096 May 15 12:00 frontend-plugins
-rw-r--r-- 1 herbert herbert 240 May 15 12:06 maven-metadata-local.xml