I figured it out. It seems that Gradle completely ignores
the sourceCompatibility & targetCompatibility properties as it relates to
compiling Scala code.
I was able to get Kafka's Scala code to compile to Java 8 bytecode by
adding the following to the build.gradle:
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tasks.withType(ScalaCompile) {
scalaCompileOptions.useAnt = false
scalaCompileOptions.additionalParameters = [
"-Ybackend:GenBCode",
"-Ydelambdafy:method",
"-target:jvm-1.8"
]
sourceCompatibility = 1.8
targetCompatibility = 1.8
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According to
https://github.com/scala/make-release-notes/blob/2.11.x/experimental-backend.md
:
"-target:jvm-1.8 instructs the Scala compiler to generate classfiles of
version 52 (the default is jvm-1.6, generating classfiles of version 50).
This option is one of the requirements to enable emitting lambdas in Java 8
style."
So unless you specify the above settings, it will by default compile all
Scala code to Java 6 compatible bytecode.
-Kyle
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Kyle B <kbi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to build Kafka 0.9.0.1 using JDK8, so that it generates JDK8
> compatible class files. However, no matter what I try, it seems the class
> files generated are for JDK6. I've tried setting sourceCompatibility
> and targetCompatibility to 1.8 to no avail.
>
> ------------------------
> $ pwd
> kafka-0.9.0.1-src
> $ javac -version
> javac 1.8.0_77
> $ diff build.gradle
> 90c90,91
> < sourceCompatibility = 1.7
> ---
> > sourceCompatibility = "1.8"
> > targetCompatibility = "1.8"
> 184a186,187
> > sourceCompatibility = "1.8"
> > targetCompatibility = "1.8"
> 254a258,259
> > sourceCompatibility = "1.8"
> > targetCompatibility = "1.8"
> $ ./gradlew -PscalaVersion=2.11.7 clean releaseTarGz -x signArchives
> ...
> $ file ./core/build/classes/main/kafka/common/TopicAndPartition.class
> ./core/build/classes/main/kafka/common/TopicAndPartition.class: compiled
> Java class data, version 50.0 (Java 1.6)
> ------------------------
>
> Is compiling Kafka to JDK8 compatible class files supported? Has anyone
> done this successfully, and can tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> -Kyle
>
