As an open-source project, anyone can contribute to the development of craftgate-java-client
. If you decide to do so, please be aware of the guidelines outlined below.
craftgate-java-client
is written in Java, in order to contribute to the project, some familiarity with Java knowledge is required.
This project uses junit as its test runner. Gson for serialization-deserialization operations, Lombok as annotation processor. Required minimum java version is 1.8 and current build tool is gradle.
The project has a straightforward package structure; the source files are located under the src/, sample integrations are located under io/craftgate/sample, and tests are located under io/craftgate/unit. Any build or test/coverage artifacts are placed under untracked folder such as:
build
andout
: Build artifacts
As outlined in the README, the bulk of the project is split into the following categories:
- Adapters: Located under the io/craftgate/adapter package, these are classes that are responsible for managing a certain domain
- HttpClient: Located under io/craftgate/net, these are utility functions to handle the traffic between backend and client.
- Enumerations and Domain Objects: Located under io/craftgate/model, these are enumerations, constants and domain object models that can be used by request and response classes
- Requests: Located under io/craftgate/request, these are objects to be used as requests.
- Response: Located under io/craftgate/response, these are objects to be used as responses.
As a payment systems client, it's important to have tests covering critical parts. In addition to tests that test crucial parts of the libraries and utilities, all samples are provided as Junit tests. It is strongly advised for all contributors to run all samples/tests against the changes introduced in the pull request. If there are no corresponding tests against the changes introduced, owner of the pull request is responsible for adding any relevant tests or samples.