On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 8:16 PM Tatu Saloranta <t...@fasterxml.com> wrote: > > Ok, so. Jackson-databind works on Android, requiring a certain minimum > Android SDK version. But we: > > 1. Don't necessarily know exactly which SDK version for given Jackson version > 2. Cannot guarantee that there are no changes that change (increase) > minimum needed for patches > 3. Do not properly plan on increasing minimum SDK requirement (unlike > with JDK itself) > > But I think that it should be possible to build something with Github > CI actions that could test (1) so we could do (2) and (3). > This could be something like Retrofit (http client) does with: > > https://github.com/square/retrofit/tree/master/retrofit/android-test > > which is, I think, to have a simple Android test project specifically > meant for quick testing that things work against specific Jackson > version with defined Android SDK level(s). > > Unfortunately I do not develop on Android platform and don't quite > know how to do this. > > But I am guessing someone on this mailing lists might have more > experience and could perhaps help? It would be great to better support > Android developers and avoid issues like: > > https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/3412 > https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/3658 > > wherein basic SDK was unintentionally increased. > > -+ Tatu +-
I was able to add CI-integrated Android SDK compatibility test for `jackson-databind` so we have that covered. But I will also need to port same thing to `jackson-core`, as well as update READMEs with observed compatibility information. You can see compatibility checking as a new Github Action stage "Verify Android SDK Compatibility" in default build job (main.yaml), if interested, f.ex: https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/actions/runs/3485040925/jobs/5830206486 -+ Tatu +- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jackson-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jackson-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jackson-dev/CAL4a10gGPVw_nLo4_dW1XFyxzKJnVj4bRG6t92%3D70nbAmwkQqg%40mail.gmail.com.
