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Use Oracle GraalVM 21 (#1624) 
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Co-authored-by: Michiel Borkent <michielborkent@gmail.com>
2023-09-27 12:23:57 +02:00

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Developing Babashka

Workflow

Start with an issue before writing code

Before writing any code, please create an issue first that describes the problem you are trying to solve with alternatives that you have considered. A little bit of prior communication can save a lot of time on coding. Keep the problem as small as possible. If there are two problems, make two issues. We discuss the issue and if we reach an agreement on the approach, it's time to move on to a PR.

Follow up with a pull request

Post a corresponding PR with the smallest change possible to address the issue. Then we discuss the PR, make changes as needed and if we reach an agreement, the PR will be merged.

Tests

Each bug fix, change or new feature should be tested well to prevent future regressions.

Force-push

Please do not use git push --force on your PR branch for the following reasons:

  • It makes it more difficult for others to contribute to your branch if needed.
  • It makes it harder to review incremental commits.
  • Links (in e.g. e-mails and notifications) go stale and you're confronted with: this code isn't here anymore, when clicking on them.
  • CircleCI doesn't play well with it: it might try to fetch a commit which doesn't exist anymore.
  • Your PR will be squashed anyway.

Requirements

You need lein for running JVM tests and/or producing uberjars. For building binaries you need GraalVM. Currently we use jdk-21

Clone repository

To work on Babashka itself make sure Git submodules are checked out.

$ git clone https://github.com/babashka/babashka --recursive

To update later on:

$ git submodule update --recursive

REPL

lein repl will get you a standard REPL/nREPL connection. To work on tests use lein with-profiles +test repl.

Adding classes

Add necessary classes to babashka/impl/classes.clj. For every addition, write a unit test, so it's clear why it is added and removing it will break the tests. Try to reduce the size of the binary by only adding the necessary parts of a class in :instance-check, :constructors, :methods, :fields or :custom.

The reflection.json file that is needed for GraalVM compilation is generated as part of script/uberjar.

Test

Test on the JVM (for development):

script/test

Test the native version:

BABASHKA_TEST_ENV=native script/test

Tests for Libraries

Babashka runs tests of libraries that are compatible with it through script/run_lib_tests.

You can check out this commit for how to add tests for a library that needs no changes to its tests. The library is cloned as a git dependency, which also includes the tests, that are then added to the test's classpath and ran.

If a library's tests needs changes, we copy the tests using the add-libtest.clj script. Examples:

# To add tests for a new library on clojars
script/add-libtest.clj com.exoscale/lingo -t

# To add tests for a new library that is git based only
script/add-libtest.clj '{borkdude/carve {:git/url "https://github.com/borkdude/carve" :sha "df552797a198b6701fb2d92390fce7c59205ea77"}}' -t

# There are a number of options for specifying how to copy tests
script/add-libtest.clj -h

If the library you want to add doesn't work automatically, you can manually do the following:

  • Add an entry for the library in deps.edn under the :lib-tests alias.
  • Create a directory for the library in test-resources/lib_tests/ and copy its tests to there.
  • Add a manual lib entry using add-libtest.clj e.g. script/add-libtest.clj http-kit/http-kit -m '{:test-namespaces [httpkit.client-test]}'.
  • Run the tests script/lib_tests/run_all_libtests NS1 NS2

Note: If you have to modify any test file or configuration to have it work with bb, add an inline comment with prefix BB-TEST-PATCH: explaining what you did.

Build

See build.md.

JDBC

Findings from various experiments with JDBC drivers in babashka:

  • Postgres: adds 3MB to the binary. It seems the maintainers have put in effort to make the driver compatible with Graal. The driver is part of bb since v0.0.89.
  • Sqlite: I feel like I'm close to a working solution, but it hangs. It adds 20MB to the binary. Since sqlite has a nice CLI we could also just shell out to it (there's an example in the examples dir). We could also build a babashka.sqlite namespace around the CLI maybe similar to babashka.curl. See #385 for details.
  • HSQLDB: easy to get going with Graalvm. Adds 10 MB to the binary. It's under a feature flag right now on master. See build.md for details. Derby and H2 are known to not work with GraalVM, so far this is the "best" embedded option from a Graal perspective. Setting the -Xmx value for Docker to 4500m got it to crash. 4800m did work, but it took 17 minutes (compared to 10 minutes without this feature).
  • MySQL / MariaDB: can't get those to work yet. Work in progress in issue #387.

To progress work on sqlite and mySQL, I need a working Clojure example. If you want to contribute, consider making a an example Clojure GraalVM CLI that puts something in a sqlite / mysql DB and reads something from it.

Design decisions

Some design decisions:

bb.edn

  • We chose the name bb.edn (rather than babashka.edn) for the configuration file based on this poll. The name bb combined with .edn is not likely to cause conflicts with other tools.
  • We did not choose to put the babashka configuration in deps.edn to keep bb config isolated (and more flexible) and also support it in projects that do not use deps.edn

.babashka

  • Rather than naming the home config dir ~/.bb we chose ~/.babashka to prevent conflicts with other global tools. We might introduce a project local ~/.babashka directory for storing caches or whatnot too.

Tasks

Some of these design decisions were formed in these discussions.

  • Tasks do not allow passing arguments to dependent tasks, other than by rebinding *command-line-args* (see discussion).
  • Does the list of dependencies need to be dynamic? No, see discussion (same reason as args)
  • bb <foo> is resolved as file > task > bb subcommand. Shadowing future subcommand is a problem that a user can solve by renaming a task or file. (same as lein aliases). Also see Conflicts.
  • It is a feature that tasks are defined as top-level vars (instead of local let-bound symbols). This plays well with the Gilardi scenario, e.g. here: ad276625f6/bb.edn (L7).
  • The parallel option trickles down into run calls. People who use parallel will be confused if it’s dropped magically, people who don’t use parallel won’t notice anything either way so it doesn’t matter

Binary size

Keep notes here about how adding libraries and classes to Babashka affects the binary size. We're registering the size of the macOS binary (as built on CircleCI).

2021/06/13 Upgrading from GraalvM 21.0 to 21.1 added roughly 3mb. Issue here.

2020/10/30 Without httpkit client+server: 68113436. With: 69503316 = 1390kb added.

2020/05/01 Removed next.jdbc and postgres JDBC driver: 48304980

2020/04/23 Added next.jdbc and postgres JDBC driver: (- 51019836 48099780) = 2920kb added

2020/04/23 Added BigDecimal (- 48103868 47857732) = 246kb added

2020/04/18 Added clojure.data.xml 47808572 - 45923028 = 1886kb added.

2020/03/29 Added clj-yaml for parsing and generating yaml. 45196996 - 42626884 = 2570kb added.

2020/03/28 Added java.nio.file.FileSystem(s) to support extracting zip files 42562284 - 42021244 = 541kb added.

2020/03/22 Added java.io.FileReader 42025276 - 42008876 = 16kb added.

2020/03/20 Added transit write, writer, read, reader 42004796 - 41025212 = 980kb added (305kb zipped).

2020/03/19 Added java.lang.NumberFormatException, java.lang.RuntimeException, java.util.MissingResourceException and java.util.Properties to support cprop. 41025180 - 40729908 = 295kb added.

2020/02/21 Added java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit 40651596 - 40598260 = 53kb added.

2020/02/19, e43727955a Added fipp.edn/pprint 40598268 - 39744804 = 853kb added.

2020/02/09, c8fd1c7931 Added java.lang.BigInteger and java.security.MessageDigest. 39281972 - 39072764 = 209kb added.

2020/04/02 v0.0.69 38883676

2020/01/24, 43eef7075f: 38.3mb, 11.1mb zipped Added hierarchies (derive, isa?, etc).

2020/01/23, 485fef7df5: 37.4mb / 10.9mb zipped Added: StringBuilder, java.io.{Reader,Writer,PrinterWriter,PushbackReader}

2020/01/08, 303ca9e825: 36.9mb / 10.8mb zipped

Removing cheshire from bb: 36.2mb / 10.5mb zipped.