All,
I've made few changes which allows for a standalone Marvin. We currently have Marvin in the CloudStack repository because of the 'cloudstackAPI' code generation that is done during build time. Marvin allows 'cloudstackAPI' to be generated at runtime if a URL end-point is provided. Some of the known build/test environments such as Travis, Trillian (upcoming) [1], bubble [2] etc. have Marvin dependency that is tied to the repository/branch. By splitting Marvin apart, build/test environments such as Trillian can simply get Marvin, generate cloudstackAPI against a running mgmt server and then run Marvin based tests. This is useful as Trillian, bubble etc perform tests on CloudStack packages (rpm/deb) instead of the maven. The only cons of this approach is that Marvin library (if split) will need to be backward compatible wrt tests and CloudStack versions, and looking at the core Marvin library history it seems Marvin from latest-master branch is backward compatible to at least 4.5.2 (tested today). (Note: integration tests may be still tied to branch/version). As an experiment, in the following PR the marvin library is not installed from the maven build but rather after CloudStack mgmt server runs, we use the Marvin codegenerator to generate `cloudstackAPI` from the API end-point (unauthenticated, on port 8096): https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1599 As an example, here is the marvin library with git history use-able as a separate repository: github.com/rhtyd/marvin Thoughts, comments? Regards. [1] https://github.com/shapeblue/Trillian [2] https://github.com/MissionCriticalCloud/bubble-toolkit [https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/16591787?v=3&s=400]<https://github.com/MissionCriticalCloud/bubble-toolkit> GitHub - MissionCriticalCloud/bubble-toolkit: Shared repo ...<https://github.com/MissionCriticalCloud/bubble-toolkit> github.com README.md Bubble Toolkit. This repository contains all tools used with so-called Bubbles. To setup a Bubble, follow the instructions here. This repo is available om ... <https://github.com/shapeblue/Trillian> [https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/6001764?v=3&s=400]<https://github.com/shapeblue/Trillian> shapeblue/Trillian<https://github.com/shapeblue/Trillian> github.com Trillian - flexible monkey powered CI/CD rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue
