Airin

Airin is a framework for automated migration of your projects to Bazel build system. It consists of 2 primary components:

• Starlark Template Engine - a declarative, typesafe Starlark template engine and code generator. Define templates for your Bazel configuration files in Kotlin DSL which closely resembles Starlark itself. Check the documentation to learn more.
• Automated Migration Component - a plugin to the build system of your project (Gradle) for automating its migration to Bazel. Define the set of Bazel file templates for your project and configure Airin Gradle plugin to migrate the project. Check the documentation to learn more.

Publications

• Automated migration of your projects to Bazel build system with Airin on ProAndroidDev
• Automated migration to Bazel with Airin at BazelCon 2021

How it works?

Step 1

In buildSrc directory define a set of Starlark templates for your project.

fun java_build(
    targetName: String,
    srcRoot: String,
    mainClass: String
    /**
     *
     */
) = BUILD.bazel {
    load("@rules_java//java:defs.bzl", "java_binary")

    java_binary(
        name = targetName,
        srcs = glob("$srcRoot/**/*.java"),
        main_class = mainClass,
        deps = list["//library"]
    )
}

Step 2

Also, in buildSrc implement TemplateProvider's for each type of your Gradle modules to correctly map the right templates to the right modules.

Step 3

In root build.gradle file configure Airin Gradle plugin by registering your newly created template providers for each type of modules or usecases.

airin {
  
  templates {
    
    register<Workspace>()
    register<KotlinModuleBuild>()
    register<AndroidModuleBuild>()
  }
}

airin {
  
  templates {
    
    register Workspace
    register KotlinModuleBuild
    register AndroidModuleBuild
  }
}

In the example above Workspace, KotlinModuleBuild and AndroidModuleBuild are Starlark code template providers that implement GradleTemplateProvider interface.

Step 4

Run the migration.

./gradlew migrateToBazel

See the documentation to learn more about the migration process.

Installation

Migration from Gradle

In the buildSrc/build.gradle file add the following:

dependencies {
    // Gradle plugin.
    implementation "org.morfly.airin:airin-gradle:0.4.0"
  
    // Optional - Android specific extensions.
    implementation "org.morfly.airin:airin-gradle-android:0.4.0"
    // Optional. Required for airin-gradle-android.
    runtimeOnly("com.android.tools.build:gradle:<version>")
    // Optional. Required for projects that use Jetpack Compose.
    runtimeOnly("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:<version>")
}

Then, in the root build.gradle file apply Airin Gradle plugin:

plugins {
    id "org.morfly.airin"
}

Standalone Template Engine

In case you need only Starlark code generator:

dependencies {
    // Starlark template engine.
    implementation "org.morfly.airin:airin-starlark:0.4.0"
    // Collection of common rules and functions.
    implementation "org.morfly.airin:airin-starlark-stdlib:0.4.0"
  
    // Optional - Starlark rules and functions generator.
    ksp "org.morfly.airin:airin-starlark-libgen:0.4.0"
}

Don't forget to add id("com.google.devtools.ksp") to plugins section of your build.gradle(.kts) file if you are using ksp.

Now you are ready for the migration.

Also, learn more about generating DSL for custom rules and functions.

Examples

Learn more about Airin by checking example projects.

License

Copyright 2021 Pavlo Stavytskyi

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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