Feathr Scala Project Developer Guide

IntelliJ Setup

IntelliJ is the recommended IDE to use when developing Feathr. Please visit IntelliJ’s installation guide to install it in your local machine. To import Feathr as a new project:

  1. Git clone Feathr into your local machine. i.e. via https git clone https://github.com/feathr-ai/feathr.git or ssh git clone git@github.com:feathr-ai/feathr.git
  2. In IntelliJ, select File > New > Project from Existing Sources... and select feathr from the directory you cloned.
  3. Under Import project from external model select gradle. Click Next.
  4. Under Project JDK specify a valid Java 1.8 JDK.
  5. Click Finish.

Setup Verification

After waiting for IntelliJ to index, verify your setup by running a test suite in IntelliJ.

  1. Search for and open a random test, i.e. here we will go with AnchoredFeaturesIntegTest as shown in the IntelliJ screenshot below.
  2. Next to the class declaration, right click on the two green arrows and select Run 'AnchoredFeaturesIntegTest'. It could be any test case.
  3. Verify if all test cases have passed.

intelliJ-setup

Scala Coding Style Guide

Please checkout Databricks’ Scala Style Guide or the official Scala Style Guide.

Building and Testing

Feathr is compiled using Gradle.

To compile, run

./gradlew build

When compiling, gradlew automatically runs tests which can take a long time to run. If you wish to skip tests to reduce your build time, you can run

./gradlew build -x test

To compile with certain java version, run

./gradlew build -Dorg.gradle.java.home=/JDK_PATH

The jar files are compiled and placed in feathr/build/libs/feathr-X.X.X.jar .

To execute tests, run

./gradlew test

To execute a single test suite, run

./gradlew test --tests com.linkedin.feathr.offline.AnchoredFeaturesIntegTest

Refer to Gradle docs for more commands.