On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 3:33 PM Nick Couchman <[email protected]> wrote:
> After a question on the mailing list recently I decided to try to write an > extension that starts a Docker container upon login and sets up a > connection to the container automatically. I decided to use the > docker-java client: > > https://github.com/docker-java/docker-java > > I've run into an interesting issue with this. If I include the dependency > normally - without specifying a scope - it pulls in between 15 and 20 MB > (!) of dependencies - the overall size of the target file is between 18 and > 20 MB. Interestingly Guacamole fails to load this extension with an error > that the Authentication Provider class cannot be found. It's almost as if > there is a size limitation, either overall file size in bytes, or number of > entries within the JAR, that the load chokes on. I cannot find anywhere in > the Guacamole code where this is specified, so I'm not sure where the > limitation is, or if that's really the issue, but it seems that way. > Might the .jar be signed? Does the documentation for the docker-java client indicate that some other dependencies must be manually added? > Any ideas the best way to proceed with this, either any insight on the > limitation for the file size for a Guacamole extension, or how to correctly > generate a JAR for the Docker client that could be placed into a lib > directory (similar to a JDBC driver) that would contain the correct > dependencies? > There's definitely no size limit. - Mike
