Spring Cloud is released under the non-restrictive Apache 2.0 license,
and follows a very standard Github development process, using Github
tracker for issues and merging pull requests into master. If you want
to contribute even something trivial please do not hesitate, but
follow the guidelines below.
Sign the Contributor License Agreement
Before we accept a non-trivial patch or pull request we will need you to sign the
Contributor License Agreement.
Signing the contributor’s agreement does not grant anyone commit rights to the main
repository, but it does mean that we can accept your contributions, and you will get an
author credit if we do. Active contributors might be asked to join the core team, and
given the ability to merge pull requests.
Code of Conduct
This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant code of
conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report
unacceptable behavior to spring-code-of-conduct@pivotal.io.
Code Conventions and Housekeeping
None of these is essential for a pull request, but they will all help. They can also be
added after the original pull request but before a merge.
Use the Spring Framework code format conventions. If you use Eclipse
you can import formatter settings using the
eclipse-code-formatter.xml file from the
Spring
Cloud Build project. If using IntelliJ, you can use the
Eclipse Code Formatter
Plugin to import the same file.
Make sure all new .java files to have a simple Javadoc class comment with at least an
@author tag identifying you, and preferably at least a paragraph on what the class is
for.
Add the ASF license header comment to all new .java files (copy from existing files
in the project)
Add yourself as an @author to the .java files that you modify substantially (more
than cosmetic changes).
Add some Javadocs and, if you change the namespace, some XSD doc elements.
A few unit tests would help a lot as well — someone has to do it.
If no-one else is using your branch, please rebase it against the current master (or
other target branch in the main project).
When writing a commit message please follow these conventions,
if you are fixing an existing issue please add Fixes gh-XXXX at the end of the commit
message (where XXXX is the issue number).
Checkstyle
Spring Cloud Build comes with a set of checkstyle rules. You can find them in the spring-cloud-build-tools module. The most notable files under the module are:
spring-cloud-build-tools/
└── src
├── checkstyle
│ └── checkstyle-suppressions.xml (3)
└── main
└── resources
├── checkstyle-header.txt (2)
└── checkstyle.xml (1)
Default Checkstyle rules
File header setup
Default suppression rules
Checkstyle configuration
Checkstyle rules are disabled by default. To add checkstyle to your project just define the following properties and plugins.
pom.xml
true (1)
true
(2)
true
(3)
(4)
io.spring.javaformat
spring-javaformat-maven-plugin
(5)
org.apache.maven.plugins
maven-checkstyle-plugin
(5)
org.apache.maven.plugins
maven-checkstyle-plugin
Fails the build upon Checkstyle errors
Fails the build upon Checkstyle violations
Checkstyle analyzes also the test sources
Add the Spring Java Format plugin that will reformat your code to pass most of the Checkstyle formatting rules
Add checkstyle plugin to your build and reporting phases
If you need to suppress some rules (e.g. line length needs to be longer), then it’s enough for you to define a file under ${project.root}/src/checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml with your suppressions. Example:
projectRoot/src/checkstyle/checkstyle-suppresions.xml
/p>
"-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Suppressions 1.1//EN"
"https://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/suppressions_1_1.dtd">
It’s advisable to copy the ${spring-cloud-build.rootFolder}/.editorconfig and ${spring-cloud-build.rootFolder}/.springformat to your project. That way, some default formatting rules will be applied. You can do so by running this script:
$curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-build/master/.editorconfig -o .editorconfig
$touch .springformat
IDE setup
Intellij IDEA
In order to setup Intellij you should import our coding conventions, inspection profiles and set up the checkstyle plugin.
The following files can be found in the Spring Cloud Build project.
spring-cloud-build-tools/
└── src
├── checkstyle
│ └── checkstyle-suppressions.xml (3)
└── main
└── resources
├── checkstyle-header.txt (2)
├── checkstyle.xml (1)
└── intellij
├── Intellij_Project_Defaults.xml (4)
└── Intellij_Spring_Boot_Java_Conventions.xml (5)
Default Checkstyle rules
File header setup
Default suppression rules
Project defaults for Intellij that apply most of Checkstyle rules
Project style conventions for Intellij that apply most of Checkstyle rules
Figure 1. Code style
Go to File → Settings → Editor → Code style. There click on the icon next to the Scheme section. There, click on the Import Scheme value and pick the Intellij IDEA code style XML option. Import the spring-cloud-build-tools/src/main/resources/intellij/Intellij_Spring_Boot_Java_Conventions.xml file.
Figure 2. Inspection profiles
Go to File → Settings → Editor → Inspections. There click on the icon next to the Profile section. There, click on the Import Profile and import the spring-cloud-build-tools/src/main/resources/intellij/Intellij_Project_Defaults.xml file.
Checkstyle
To have Intellij work with Checkstyle, you have to install the Checkstyle plugin. It’s advisable to also install the Assertions2Assertj to automatically convert the JUnit assertions
Go to File → Settings → Other settings → Checkstyle. There click on the + icon in the Configuration file section. There, you’ll have to define where the checkstyle rules should be picked from. In the image above, we’ve picked the rules from the cloned Spring Cloud Build repository. However, you can point to the Spring Cloud Build’s GitHub repository (e.g. for the checkstyle.xml :
checkstyle.header.file - please point it to the Spring Cloud Build’s, spring-cloud-build-tools/src/main/resources/checkstyle-header.txt file either in your cloned repo or via the
checkstyle.suppressions.file - default suppressions. Please point it to the Spring Cloud Build’s, spring-cloud-build-tools/src/checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml file either in your cloned repo or via the
checkstyle.additional.suppressions.file - this variable corresponds to suppressions in your local project. E.g. you’re working on spring-cloud-contract. Then point to the project-root/src/checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml folder. Example for spring-cloud-contract would be: /home/username/spring-cloud-contract/src/checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml.
Important
Remember to set the Scan Scope to All sources since we apply checkstyle rules for production and test sources.