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Bloop rifle is a lightweight artifact that installs and configures bloop. The goal of Bloop rifle is to relieve clients of the burden of installing and managing the lifetime of background build servers.

Bloop rifle implements the Build Server Discovery protocol which allows clients to establish a BSP connection and communicate with the server via stdin and stdout.

For an example of using Bloop rifle, see the Bloop CLI module and Metals

Description

Using Bloop rifle directly is more complex than using the CLI.

  1. Clients that want to start Bloop need to use BloopRifleConfig, which has some default values, but it needs a way to download Bloop binaries provided via classpath options.
final case class BloopRifleConfig(
    address: BloopRifleConfig.Address,
    javaPath: String,
    javaOpts: Seq[String],
    classPath: String => Either[Throwable, Seq[File]],
    workingDir: File,
    bspSocketOrPort: Option[() => BspConnectionAddress],
    bspStdin: Option[InputStream],
    bspStdout: Option[OutputStream],
    bspStderr: Option[OutputStream],
    period: FiniteDuration,
    timeout: FiniteDuration,
    startCheckPeriod: FiniteDuration,
    startCheckTimeout: FiniteDuration,
    initTimeout: FiniteDuration,
    minimumBloopJvm: Int,
    retainedBloopVersion: BloopRifleConfig.BloopVersionConstraint
)

At a minimum users need 3 arguments:

  def default(
      address: Address,
      bloopClassPath: String => Either[Throwable, Seq[File]],
      workingDir: File
  ): BloopRifleConfig =
  • `address| - the address of the server, either TCP or via a domain socket path
  • bloopClassPath - a function that takes a string and returns a sequence of files, needed to download bloop binaries
  • workingDir - the working directory of the server
  1. With config available users can use BloopRifle.check to check if Bloop is running or BloopRifle.start to start the server.
  2. Lastly, BloopRifle.bsp can be used to establish a connection to the server. It will return a BspConnection class, which will have a openSocket method available.

Install Bloop Rifle

Version Published Resolver
2.0.6 13 Dec 2024 13:52 -r sonatype:releases
2.0.6-20-e52ee2e8-SNAPSHOT 30 Dec 2024 10:32
Bloop Rifle is independent from Bloop but it's released with the same cadence than the Bloop build server. Therefore, you can expect a build server version to have an accompanying rifle version.

Open a BSP connection

To open a BSP connection with Bloop's build server you need to follow the Build Server Discovery protocol. BSP allow clients to connect to a BSP server in a build-tool-independent way through BSP connection files, a JSON file with build server metadata and an argv field that, if shelled out, will establish a bsp connection with a server.

The bloop BSP connection file is created automatically by any of the supported bloop installation methods (in the global .bsp directory) or by any of its build plugins (in the .bsp workspace directory). If you do not depend on a build plugin or require the installation of bloop, you are required to create a bloop BSP connection file to allow you and other servers follow the Build Server Protocol.

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