Hi TIm,

If you’re referring to MiniKuduCluster, it requires the Kudu binaries to start 
a MiniCluster which in turn uses the actual kudu-master and kudu-tserver 
binaries to set up a cluster, so it requires the Kudu binaries to be available 
and will use separate processes, but you don’t have to set up an actual cluster 
beforehand.

I agree that in unit tests Kudu should be mocked, but I don’t think Docker is 
necessary for the integration tests though, the MiniCluster should be used imho.

I’d be happy to look at the pull request, but I’m not a committer, so it would 
be nice to have someone else look at it as well.

Attila

> On 2018. Jun 5., at 12:11, Tim Robertson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm starting up development of a Java based connector to Kudu for Apache
> Beam - i.e. a source and sink to Kudu for beam pipelines.
> 
> For testing, the Beam project favours "mini integration tests" rather than
> mocking - e.g. spinning up an embedded HBase / Solr server. In addition the
> beam project also has a set of separate integration tests that make us use
> kubernetes.
> 
> My understanding is for Kudu the embedded Java server is a wrapper around a
> running kudu cluster. I don't believe there is an embeddable Kudu for
> testing right (even an API compliant / mock server)?
> 
> My current thinking is to mock Kudu in unit tests and provide an
> integration test using kudu running in Docker. Can anyone propose a better
> option or confirm this sounds reasonable please?
> 
> Once written would a kind Kudu dev be willing to take a look before I put
> it up for a pull request in Beam perhaps? It would mean a lot to get a nod
> from you folk that it looks correct.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim


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