Airbyte uses java 14
, node 14
and docker
To start contributing:
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Start by forking the repository
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Clone the fork on your workstation:
git clone git@github.com:{YOUR_USERNAME}/airbyte.git cd airbyte
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You're ready to start!
To compile the code and run unit tests:
./gradlew clean build
This will build all the code and run all the unit tests.
./gradle build
creates all the necessary artifacts (Webapp, Jars and Docker images) so that you can run Airbyte locally.
{% hint style="info" %} On Mac, if you run into an error while compiling openssl (this happens when running pip install), you may need to explicitly add these flags to your bash profile so that the C compiler can find the appropriate libraries.
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include"
{% endhint %}
./gradlew build
docker-compose --env-file .env.dev -f docker-compose.yaml -f docker-compose.dev.yaml up
The build will take a few minutes. Once it completes, Airbyte compiled at current git revision will be running in dev
mode in your environment.
In dev
mode, all data will be persisted in /tmp/dev_root
.
To run acceptance (end-to-end) tests, you must have the Airbyte running locally.
./gradlew build
VERSION=dev docker-compose up
./gradlew :airbyte-tests:acceptanceTests
The easiest way to develop on one of Airbyte's modules is to spin up the whole Airbyte system on your workstation, and shutdown the module you want to work on.
- Spin up Airbyte locally so the UI can make requests against the local API.
- Stop the
webapp
.
docker-compose stop webapp
- Start up the react app.
cd airbyte-webapp
npm install
npm start
- Happy Hacking!
- Spin up Airbyte locally.
- Stop the
server
.
docker-compose stop server
- Run the
server
with the command line. It will build and start aserver
with the current state of the code. You can also start theserver
from your IDE if you need to use a debugger.
./gradlew :airbyte-server:run
- Make sure everything is working by testing out a call to the API.
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json"\
-X POST localhost:8001/api/v1/workspaces/get\
-d '{ "workspaceId": "5ae6b09b-fdec-41af-aaf7-7d94cfc33ef6" }'
- Happy Hacking!
Note: We namespace most API calls with a workspace id. For now there is only ever one workspace that is hardcoded to the id used in this example. If you ever need a workspace id, just use this one.
- Spin up Airbyte locally.
- Stop the
scheduler
.
docker-compose stop scheduler
- Run the
scheduler
with the command line. It will build and start ascheduler
with the current state of the code. You can also start thescheduler
from your IDE if you need to use a debugger.
./gradlew :airbyte-scheduler:run
- Happy Hacking!
The Configuration API caches connector specifications. This is done to avoid needing to run docker everytime one is needed in the UI. Without this caching, the UI crawls. If you update the specification of a connector and you need to clear this cache so the API / UI pick up the change. You have two options: 1. Go to the Admin page in the UI and update the version of the connector. Updating to the same version will for the cache to clear for that connector. 1. Restart the server
docker-compose --env-file .env.dev -f docker-compose.yaml -f docker-compose.dev.yaml down -v
docker-compose --env-file .env.dev -f docker-compose.yaml -f docker-compose.dev.yaml up
Sometimes you'll want to reset the data in your local environment. One common case for this is if you are updating an connector's entry in the database (airbyte-config/init/src/main/resources/config
), often the easiest thing to do, is wipe the local database and start it from scratch. To reset your data back to a clean install of Airbyte, follow these steps:
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Delete the datastore volumes in docker
docker-compose --env-file .env.dev -f docker-compose.yaml -f docker-compose.dev.yaml down -v
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Remove the data on disk
rm -rf /tmp/dev_root rm -rf /tmp/airbyte_local
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Rebuild the project
./gradlew build docker-compose --env-file .env.dev -f docker-compose.yaml -f docker-compose.dev.yaml up -V