Hey, Thanks for the answer, But my question was can't we write plugin by downloading the nutch jar and using it as a dependency, rather than adding the code in nutch source code?
On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 8:08 PM, Jorge Betancourt <betancourt.jo...@gmail.com > wrote: > Usually we tend to develop everything inside the Nutch file structure, > specially useful if you need to deploy to a Hadoop cluster later on > (because you need to bundle everything in a job file). > > But, if you really want to develop the plugin in isolation you only need to > create a new project in your preferred IDE/maven/ant/gradle and add the > dependencies that you need from the lib/ directory (or the global > dependencies with the same version). > > Then just compile everything to a jar and place it in the proper plugin > structure in the Nutch installation. Although this should work is not > really a smooth development experience. > You need to be careful and not bundle all libs inside your jar, etc. > > The path suggested by Sebastian is much better, in the end while developing > you want to have everything, perhaps just compile/test your plugin and > later on you can copy the final jar of your plugin to the desired Nutch > installation. > > Best Regards, > Jorge > > On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 4:02 PM narendra singh arya <nsary...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Can we have nutch plugin as a separate project? > > > > On Fri, 4 May 2018, 19:26 Sebastian Nagel, <wastl.na...@googlemail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > That's trivial. Just run ant in the plugin's source folder: > > > > > > cd src/plugin/urlnormalizer-basic/ > > > ant > > > > > > or to run also the tests > > > > > > cd src/plugin/urlnormalizer-basic/ > > > ant test > > > > > > Note: you have to compile the core test classes first by running > > > > > > ant compile-core-test > > > > > > in the Nutch "root" folder. > > > > > > A little bit slower but guarantees that everything is compiled: > > > > > > ant -Dplugin=urlnormalizer-basic test-plugin > > > > > > Or sometimes it's enough to skip some of the long running tests: > > > > > > ant -Dtest.exclude='TestSegmentMerger*' clean runtime test > > > > > > > > > Best, > > > Sebastian > > > > > > On 05/04/2018 01:13 PM, Yash Thenuan Thenuan wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I want to compile my plugins separately so that I need not compile > > > > the whole project again when I make a change in some plugin. How can > I > > > > achieve that? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > > > >
