[Hawkular-dev] What should -Pdev do?

[mike thompson]

> On 28 May 2015, at 10:31, Peter Palaga <ppalaga at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi *,
> 
> sorry, for bringing this up so late on this list. I discussed this on 
> #hawkular but probably outside US office hours and I totally 
> underestimated the amount of emotions some of us are tied by to -Pdev.
> 
> There was a change by me recently that changed a little bit how -Pdev 
> behaves.
> 
> Originally, a -Pdev just produced a bundle in which the default 
> configuration was changed to suit the dev use case: esp. one had jdoe 
> loaded by invoking simply standalone.sh.
> 
> As I worked on fixing the end to end tests in Hawkular, Lucas was fixing 
> the REST tests in alerts. We both had the problem that the hawkular 
> bundle that maven has downloaded from JBoss Nexus was build without 
> -Pdev and as a consequence of that we could not run our integration 
> tests by simply taking the bundle. We had to unzip the bundle, do what 
> -Pdev does and only after that we could start it.
> 
> Hence, as a solution, I have prepared
> 
>   https://github.com/hawkular/hawkular/pull/134
> 
> which caused that the stuff originally present only in bundles built 
> with -Pdev became available by default, but to use that dev stuff, 
> wildfly needs to be started with
> 
>   standalone.sh -c standalone-itest.xml
> 
> because standalone-itest.xml is the place where the dev configuration is 
> activated.
> 
> With this change, there is only one way to build a hk bundle, hence 
> there is only one bundle to distribute and download but you can do both 
> dev and prod things with it. Not having jdoe/password by running the 
> default config is a good thing from the security PoV.
> 
> The bottom line is that -Pdev in the present master has one small issue 
> that I fixed in https://github.com/hawkular/hawkular/pull/148
> 
> Please comment.

To make it easy/consistent on us devs  and our community the only thing that I really care about is that to start up that we use ‘standalone.sh’ (without any special options). I think this is what developers expect without having to impart special knowledge about ‘our build’.

My two cents

— Mike


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter
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