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Is it possible to create a war file with catacumba?

no

it uses netty and uses its own http stack

@niwinz: Is there something similar to a war file that you can create in order to nicely bundle up your application? It would be nice to able to serve static files from inside a jar instead of requiring it be on the system path

hmm

serving the static from the jar is completly independent from the ability to create war

I deploy my apps using uberjar

give me 5 min for remember that I'm doing

Sure

java -jar target/uxbox-backend-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT-standalone.jar -m uxbox.main

this how I run the app

https://github.com/uxbox/uxbox-backend

this is the repo and its config

I'm just don't want AOT, because of this the -m uxbox.main

the uxbox does not serves static files

but as far as I know it is easy setup puting the .catacumba file inside resources and configure properly the routing for serve static files from there

Right but the problem is that :base-dir requires a system path, not relative path inside a jar

if you not specify it and put .catacumba file inside resources it does not works?

I didn't test that in real environments but if you give me some time I can do it

What is the .catacumba file?

The jar?

a marker file

touch resources/.catacumba

What does this do?

What can you put in .catacumba?

indicates to catacumba that if no base dir is specified, find one that contains that file

How does it find one?

I don't know the impl, the fact is, if you don't provide the base-dir parameter on server startup, it will find .catacumba file in the class path and the directory where that file exists put as the base dir

just that

Oh I see

Interesting. I did not know about this. Is this part of ratpack?

yes and not

in ratpack is not automatic

but in catacumba yes it is

What do you mean not automatic?

in ratpack you should explicitly set always the base-dir, and you can use some helper for do that catacumba does

catacumba automatically does that if base dir is not specified

Found the relavent fn: https://github.com/funcool/catacumba/blob/bbb0d0955a07960ffa0ec67c085447673cd2ddd4/src/clojure/catacumba/impl/server.clj#L77

but I think that I'm wrong in one thin

this does not allows in any case serve files

from classpath

seems like this is not solved at this moment

Have you tested it?

Yes but always out of uberjar

I think this will not work in the bundled executable jar

Hmm. Seems like it should. I'll see if the .catacumba file solves my problem

In any case I recommend serve static files just using nginx or similar

Yes in prod. This is actually for a small dev tool so it would be nice to just distribute it as a standalone jar that can run in the background.

ok, let me know of any result 😉

Will do

[3/5.2]niwi@kaleidos:~/uxbox/uxbox-backend> java -jar target/uxbox-backend-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT-standalone.jar -m uxbox.main Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not find marker file '.catacumba' via context class loader

I think it will not work

The most closes solution to that you want is just create the uberjar and latter package it for use static files from main filesystem (no classpath), you don't need nginx but at this moment you can't serve files from classpath

I think that is very useful so I priorize that task in my backlog 😉

java -Dcatacumba.basedir=`pwd`/resources -jar target/uxbox-backend-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT-standalone.jar -m uxbox.main

This works as expected

I will try to implement the ability to serve static files from classpath, because for small applications this is the most obvious way to deploy them 😄

I will chat with ratpack developers if they know any way to do it

@kenny: I think that I found a solution, at this moment I don't have much time for it, but this afternoon I'll try to make it done

@kenny: fixed in 0.13.0-SNAPSHOT

https://github.com/funcool/catacumba/blob/master/doc/content.adoc#configuration-options

the final part of that doc section explains a little bit the problem and how to solve

@niwinz: Sweet, that works. Thanks

@niwinz: Actually I am having a problem with it.. It doesn't seem to find my js file that is in the same directory as .catacumba.basedir. It will serve my index.html though. The main.js file will get a 404.

It will serve index.html, logback.xml, and I can even download .catacumba.basedir, however, main.js will always be a 404.