Cordapp CPK Gradle Plugin.

^{Requires Gradle 6.7}

Purpose.

Applying this plugin to a project declares that the project should create a CPK-format CorDapp. The CPK-format CorDapp is a ZIP file with a .jar extension that is the output of the jar task, along with that jar's dependent jars. In practice, the plugin will not include any of Corda's own jars among these dependencies, nor any jars which should be provided by Corda, e.g. Kotlin or Quasar. The jar should also contain sufficient OSGi metadata to be a valid OSGi bundle.

Usage.

Include these lines at the top of the build.gradle file of your CorDapp Gradle project:

plugins {
    id 'net.corda.plugins.cordapp-cpk2'
}

You must also apply the net.corda.cordapp.cordapp-configuration plugin to your "root" Gradle project, to configure the cordapp-cpk2 plugin for your version of Corda:

plugins {
    id 'net.corda.cordapp.cordapp-configuration'
}

If your Gradle project only contains a single module then you would apply both plugins together:

plugins {
    id 'net.corda.cordapp.cordapp-configuration'
    id 'net.corda.plugins.cordapp-cpk2'
}

You will also need to declare both plugins' versions in settings.gradle:

pluginManagement {
    plugins {
        id 'net.corda.cordapp.cordapp-configuration' version cordaReleaseVersion
        id 'net.corda.plugins.cordapp-cpk2' version cpkPluginVersion
    }
}

where cpkPluginVersion and cordaReleaseVersion are both Gradle properties:

cpkPluginVersion = '6.0.0'
cordaReleaseVersion = '5.0.0'

Applying the cordapp-cpk2 plugin implicitly applies both Gradle's java-library plugin and Bnd's builder plugin, which means that the output of the jar task will also become an OSGi bundle. The cordapp-cpk2 plugin assigns the following default OSGi attributes to the bundle:

Bundle-SymbolicName: ${project.group}.${archiveBaseName}[-${archiveAppendix}][-${archiveClassifier}]
Bundle-Version: ${project.version}

DSL.

The plugin creates a cordapp DSL extension, which currently bears a strong resemblance to the legacy cordapp plugin's DSL extension:

cordapp {
    targetPlatformVersion = '<Corda 5 Platform Version>'
    minimumPlatformVersion = '<Corda 5 Platform Version>'

    contract {
        name = 'Example CorDapp'
        versionId = 1
        licence = 'Test-Licence'
        vendor = 'R3'
        cpkCordappName = 'com.r3.example.simplecordapp.contract'
    }

    workflow {
        name = 'Example CorDapp'
        versionId = 1
        licence = 'Test-Licence'
        vendor = 'R3'
        cpkCordappName = 'com.r3.example.simplecordapp.workflow'
    }

    signing {
        enabled = (true | false)

        // These options presumably mirror Ant's signJar task options.
        options {
            alias = '??'
            storePassword = '??'
            keyStore = file('/path/to/keystore')
            storeType= ('PKCS12' | 'JKS')
            keyPassword = '$storePassword'
            signatureFileName = '$alias'
            verbose = (true | false)
            strict = (true | false)
            internalSF = (true | false)
            sectionsOnly = (true | false)
            lazy = (true | false)
            maxMemory = '??'
            preserveLastModified = (true | false)
            tsaUrl = '??'
            tsaCert = '??'
            tsaProxyHost = '??'
            tsaProxyPort = '??'
            executable = file('/path/to/alternate/jarsigner')
            force = (true | false)
            signatureAlgorithm = '??'
            digestAlgorithm = '??'
            tsaDigestAlgorithm = '??'
        }
    }

    sealing = (true | false)

    hashAlgorithm = 'SHA-256'
}

This extension is likely to change as Corda 5 matures and its requirements evolve. The name, licence and vendor fields are mapped to the Bundle-Name, Bundle-License and Bundle-Vendor OSGi manifest tags respectively.

Configurations.

Applying cordapp-cpk2 creates the following new Gradle configurations:

cordaProvided: This configuration declares a dependency that the CorDapp needs to compile against, but which should not become part of the CPK since it will be provided by the Corda node at runtime. This effectively replaces the legacy cordaCompile configuration. Any cordaProvided dependency is also implicitly added to Gradle's compileOnly and *Implementation configurations, and consequently is not included either in the runtimeClasspath configuration, as a dependency in the published POM file, or packaged inside the CPK file. However, it will be included in the testRuntimeClasspath configuration, and will also become a transitive cordaProvided dependency of any CorDapp which depends on this CorDapp.
cordaPrivateProvided: This configuration is like cordaProvided, except that its contents do not become transitive cordaProvided dependencies of any CorDapps which depend on this one.
cordapp: This declares a compile-time dependency against the jar of another CPK CorDapp. As with cordaProvided, the dependency is also added implicitly to Gradle's compileOnly and *Implementation configurations, and is excluded from the runtimeClasspath configuration, the published POM file, and the contents of the CPK file. The jars of all cordapp dependencies are listed as lines in this jar's META-INF/CPKDependencies.json file:

{
    "formatVersion": "2.0",
    "dependencies": [
        {
            "name": "$BUNDLE_SYMBOLIC_NAME",
            "version": "$BUNDLE_VERSION",
            "verifySameSignerAsMe": true
        }
    ]
}

cordapp dependencies are transitive in the sense that if CorDapp B declares a cordapp dependency on CorDapp A, and then CorDapp C declares a cordapp dependency on CorDapp B, then CorDapp C will acquire compile-time dependencies on the jars of both CorDapps A and B. The cordaProvided dependencies of both A and B will also be added to CorDapp C's cordaProvided configuration. This piece of Dark Magic is achieved by publishing each CPK with a "companion" POM that contains the extra dependency information. The cordapp-cpk2 plugin resolves these "companion" POMs transparently to the user so that CorDapps have the transitive relationships that everyone expects.

Note that in order for everything to work as intended, the "companion" POM must be published into the same repository as its associated jar artifact. For a jar with Maven coordinates:

    ${group}:${artifact}:${version}

the "companion"'s Maven coordinates will be:

    ${group}.${artifact}:${artifact}.corda.cpk:${version}

cordaEmbedded: This configuration behaves similarly to cordaProvided in the sense that it declares a compileOnly dependency that is excluded from both the CPK contents and from the published POM. The difference is that the dependent jar is also added to a META-INF/lib folder inside the CorDapp's jar, and appended to the jar's Bundle-Classpath manifest attribute. Note that an OSGi framework considers a Bundle-Classpath to contain ordinary jars and not bundles, even if those jars contain OSGi metadata of their own. Note also that the embedded jars' transitive dependencies will be embedded too, unless they are explicitly added to another Gradle configuration. Use embedding with care! It is provided as a tool for those cases where a dependency has no OSGi metadata, or its metadata is somehow unusable. I strongly recommend not embedding dependencies which already have valid OSGi metadata.
cordaRuntimeOnly: This declares a dependency that will be added to the runtimeClasspath, but which the CorDapp doesn't need to compile against and must not be packaged into the CPK file either. It replaces the legacy cordaRuntime configuration.

The legacy cordaCompile and cordaRuntime configurations are built upon Gradle's deprecated compile and runtime configurations, which have finally been removed in Gradle 7.0.

Publishing

The cordapp-cpk2 plugin creates a new Gradle SoftwareComponent named "cordapp", which you can use to create a MavenPublication:

plugins {
    id 'net.corda.plugins.cordapp-cpk2'
    id 'maven-publish'
}

publishing {
    publications {
        myCorDapp(MavenPublication) {
            from components.cordapp
        }
    }
}

Tasks.

External Tasks.

jar: This is the standard Jar task created by Gradle's java-library plugin, and then enhanced by Bnd's builder plugin to create an OSGi bundle. The contents of the runtimeClasspath configuration is added to the jar's META-INF/privatelib folder, except for those jars which have been declared as either a cordapp, cordaProvided, cordaEmbedded or cordaRuntimeOnly dependency.

The jar task is an automatic dependency of Gradle's assemble task.

Internal Tasks.

These tasks perform intermediate steps as part of creating a CPK.

cordappDependencyCalculator: Calculates which jars belong to which part of a CPK's packaging.
cordappCPKDependencies: Generates the jar's META-INF/CPKDependencies.json file.
verifyBundle: Verifies that the jar's OSGi metadata is consistent with the packages that have been included in the CPK. This task uses Bnd's Verifier class with "strict" verification enabled to ensure that every Import-Package element has an associated version too.

OSGi Metadata.

The cordapp-cpk2 plugin automatically adds these dependencies to the CorDapp:

compileOnly "biz.aQute.bnd:biz.aQute.bnd.annotation:$bndVersion"
compileOnly "org.osgi:osgi.annotation:8.1.0"

These annotations control how Bnd will generate OSGi metadata for the jar. In practice, the plugin already tries to handle the typical cases for creating CorDapps.

Bundle Symbolic Name

An OSGi bundle should be uniquely identifiable by the combination of its Bundle-SymbolicName and Bundle-Version manifest attributes. The cordapp-cpk2 plugin always sets the Bundle-Version attribute to the Jar task's archiveVersion property, and it generates a default Bundle-SymbolicName value according to the following pattern:

(${project.group}.)?${archiveBaseName}(-${archiveAppendix})?(-${archiveClassifier})?

However, if this default value is unacceptable for any reason, the Bundle-SymbolicName can also be set explicitly via:

tasks.named('jar', Jar) {
    osgi {
        symbolicName = '<value>'
    }
}

Package Exports

The cordapp-cpk2 plugin creates a Bnd -exportcontents command to generate the jar's OSGi Export-Package header. By default, it will automatically add every package inside the jar to this -exportcontents command. The assumption here is that a CorDapp will not have a complicated package structure, and that Corda's OSGi sandboxes will provide additional CorDapp isolation anyway.

CorDapp developers who wish to configure their package exports more precisely can disable this default behaviour from the jar task:

tasks.named('jar', Jar) {
    osgi {
        autoExport = false
    }
}

You can then apply @org.osgi.annotation.bundle.Export annotations "by hand" to selected package-info.java files.

You can also export package names explicitly, although applying @Export annotations would still be better:

tasks.named('jar', Jar) {
    osgi {
        exportPackage 'com.example.cordapp', 'com.example.cordapp.foo'
    }
}

Package Imports

In an ideal world, Bnd would generate the correct OSGi Import-Package manifest header automatically. That being said, Bnd will occasionally also notice unexpected package references from unused code-paths within the byte-code. The cordapp-cpk2 plugin provides the following options to override the detected package settings:

tasks.named('jar', Jar) {
    osgi {
        // Declares that this CorDapp requires the OSGi framework to provide the 'com.example.cordapp' package.
        // This value is passed straight through to Bnd.
        importPackage 'com.example.cordapp'

        // Declares that this CorDapp uses the 'com.example.cordapp.foo` package.
        // However, Corda will not complain if no-one provides it at runtime. This
        // assumes that the missing package isn't really required at all.
        optionalImport 'com.example.cordapp.foo'

        // Like `optionalImport`, except that it also assigns this package an empty
        // version range. This is useful when the unused package doesn't have a version
        // range of its own because it does not belong to another OSGi bundle.
        suppressImportVersion 'com.example.cordapp.bar'
    }
}

ServiceLoader

Bundles that use java.util.ServiceLoader require special handling to support their META-INF/services/ files. Bnd provides @ServiceProvider and @ServiceConsumer annotations to ensure that the bundle respects OSGi's Service Loader Mediator Specification.

Corda Metadata

The plugin will generate Corda-*-Classes tags in the jar's MANIFEST.MF. The generated tags are controlled by the net.corda.cordapp.cordapp-configuration Gradle plugin in the corda-api repo.

Each tag contains a list of the classes within the jar that have been identified as being a Corda contract, a Corda flow etc. Each of these classes has also been confirmed as being public, static and non-abstract, which allows Corda to instantiate them. Empty tags are excluded from the final manifest, and so not every tag is guaranteed to be present.

The plugin generates these lists using Bnd's ${classes} macro. However, we may also need to update these macros as Corda evolves, and would prefer not to need to update the cordapp-cpk2 plugin at the same time. We can therefore update the macros by modifying the

net/corda/cordapp/cordapp-configuration.properties

file inside the net.corda.cordapp.cordapp-configuration Gradle plugin, and then applying this new plugin to the CorDapps's root project. (The cordapp-configuration plugin is part of the Corda repository, and new versions of it will be released as part of Corda, of course.) Any property key inside this file that matches Corda-*-Classes defines a filter to generate a new manifest tag (or replace an existing tag). E.g.

Corda-Contract-Classes=IMPLEMENTS;net.corda.v10.ledger.contracts.Contract

The cordapp-cpk2 plugin will append additional clauses to each filter to ensure that it still only selects public static non-abstract classes, since we don't expect this requirement to change.

Dynamic Imports

The CPK needs to declare imports for these packages so that OSGi can create lazy proxies for any JPA entities the bundle may contain:

org.hibernate.proxy
javaassist.util.proxy

We must also allow the bundle to import this package, which contains Hibernate-specific annotations:

org.hibernate.annotations

We declare all these packages as "dynamic" imports to avoid binding the CPK to a specific version of Hibernate, which should make it easier for Corda itself to evolve without breaking everyone's CorDapps. (Future versions of Hibernate are also likely not to use Javassist.)

The plugin will declare these packages using the OSGI DynamicImport-Package header.

If necessary, we can update these package names via the cordapp-configuration.properties file by adding a comma-separated list to the Required-Packages key:

Required-Packages=org.foo,org.bar

Note that doing this will completely override the plugin's hard-coded list of packages.

Corda API Imports

Our goal is for any CPK written for Corda 5.x to be compatible with every release of Corda 5.x. This requires the cordapp-cpk2 plugin to apply an explicit OSGi "consumer policy" for every Corda API package that the CPK may use:

version='${range;[=,+);${@}}'

We identify Corda's API packages using the Import-Policy-Packages property:

Import-Policy-Packages=net.corda.v5.*

You can prevent the cordapp-cpk2 plugin from applying this policy by settings:

jar {
    osgi {
        applyImportPolicy = false
    }
}

However, this will likely also prevent your CPK compiled for Corda 5.x from installing correctly into any Corda node where

0 <= Corda version < x

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Cordapp CPK Gradle Plugin.

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Usage.

DSL.

Configurations.

Publishing

Tasks.

External Tasks.

Internal Tasks.

OSGi Metadata.

Bundle Symbolic Name

Package Exports

Package Imports

ServiceLoader

Corda Metadata

Dynamic Imports

Corda API Imports

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Cordapp CPK Gradle Plugin.

Purpose.

Usage.

DSL.

Configurations.

Publishing

Tasks.

External Tasks.

Internal Tasks.

OSGi Metadata.

Bundle Symbolic Name

Package Exports

Package Imports

ServiceLoader

Corda Metadata

Dynamic Imports

Corda API Imports