Create a jar deployment package using Maven

This section describes a way to create a Java-type SCF function deployment jar package using Maven.

Environment Preparations

Make sure that you have Java and Maven installed. For the Java version, please use JDK 8. You can download and install the JDK appropriate for your system using OpenJDK (Linux) or at www.java.com.

Install Maven

The specific installation instructions can be found at https://maven.apache.org/install.html. The following describes how to manually install it:

1. Download Maven's zip package or tar.gz package.
2. Unzip the package to a desired directory, such as C:\Maven (Windows) or /opt/mvn/apache-maven-3.5.0 (Linux).
3. Add the path to the bin directory in the unzipped directory to the system PATH environment variable. To do so on Linux, use export PATH=$PATH:/opt/mvn/apache-maven-3.5.0/bin; on Windows, right click Computer and select Properties > Advanced system settings > Advanced > Environment Variables, select the Path variable, click Edit, and add ;C:\Maven\bin; at the end of the variable value.
4. Verify that there is an output similar to the one below by executing mvn -v in the command line to prove that Maven is properly installed. If you have any questions, please see Maven's official documentation.

    Apache Maven 3.5.0 (ff8f5e7444045639af65f6095c62210b5713f426; 2017-04-04T03:39:06+08:00)
    Maven home: C:\Program Files\Java\apache-maven-3.5.0\bin\..
    Java version: 1.8.0_144, vendor: Oracle Corporation
    Java home: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_144\jre
    Default locale: zh_CN, platform encoding: GBK
    OS name: "windows 7", version: "6.1", arch: "amd64", family: "windows"

Code Preparations

Prepare the code file

Create a project folder in the selected location, such as scf_example. In the root directory of the project folder, create a directory src/main/java/ as the directory where the package is stored. Create the example package directory in the created directory and then create a Hello.java file in the package directory. Finally, the following directory structure is formed:
scf_example/src/main/java/example/Hello.java

Enter the code content in the Hello.java file:

package example;

public class Hello {
    public String mainHandler(String name, Context context) {
        System.out.println("Hello world!");
        return String.format("Hello %s.", name);
    }
}

Prepare the compilation file

Create a pom.xml file in the root directory of the project folder and enter the following content:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <groupId>examples</groupId>
  <artifactId>java-example</artifactId>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>java-example</name>

  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.3</version>
        <configuration>
          <createDependencyReducedPom>false</createDependencyReducedPom>
        </configuration>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>shade</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

Use the Maven Central library to handle package dependencies

If you need to reference the external package of Maven Central, you can add dependencies as needed. The content of the pom.xml file is as follows:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <groupId>examples</groupId>
  <artifactId>java-example</artifactId>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>java-example</name>

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.qcloud</groupId>
      <artifactId>qcloud-java-sdk</artifactId>
      <version>2.0.1</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>


  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.3</version>
        <configuration>
          <createDependencyReducedPom>false</createDependencyReducedPom>
        </configuration>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>shade</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

Compiling and Packaging

Execute the command mvn package in the root directory of the project folder, and the compilation output should be like the example below:

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building java-example 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1.785 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2017-08-25T10:53:54+08:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 17M/214M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

If a compilation failure is displayed, adjust the code based on the outputted compilation error message.

The compiled zip package is located in the target directory of the project folder and named java-example-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar after the artifactId and version fields in pom.xml.

Using the Function

After the jar package is generated after compilation and packaging, when creating or modifying a function, you can upload the package (if less than 10 MB) through the page or upload it (if bigger) to a COS bucket and then update it into the function through COS upload.