Code Generator

Use the ‘proctor-codegen’ module to generate a Java representation of an application’s test specification. The module generates a concrete implementation of AbstractGroups and AbstractGroupsManager. You can also generate a JavaScript representation. You’ll need to use your Java-generated code to compute group allocations, then pass them to the client side to use with your generated JavaScript.

AbstractGroups - Provides an interface for consuming and accessing the groups for a user. Accessor methods are generated for each test and test-bucket.

AbstractGroupsManager - Provides an interface for determining the groups for a user based on the provided Identifiers and context.

Example specification

Consider the following ExampleGroups.json specification

{
    "tests" : {
        "bgcolortst": {
            "buckets": {
                "inactive":-1,
                "altcolor1":0,
                "altcolor2":1,
                "altcolor3":2,
                "altcolor4":3
            },
            "fallbackValue": -1
        }
    },
    "providedContext": {
        "country": "String",
        "loggedIn": "boolean",
        "language": "String",
        "ua": "com.indeed.example.UserAgent"
    }
}

Generated ExampleGroupsManager.java

package com.indeed.example;

public class ExampleGroupsManager extends AbstractGroupsManager {
  public ExampleGroupsManager(final Supplier<Proctor> proctorSource) {
      super(proctorSource);
  }

  public ProctorResult determineBuckets(final Identifiers identifiers,
                                        final String country,
                                        final boolean loggedIn,
                                        final String language,
                                        final com.indeed.example.UserAgent ua);

  public ProctorResult determineBuckets(final HttpServletRequest request,
                                        final HttpServletResponse response,
                                        final Identifiers identifiers,
                                        final boolean allowForcedGroups,
                                        final String country,
                                        final boolean loggedIn,
                                        final String language,
                                        final com.indeed.example.UserAgent ua);
}

Key points:

  • The Supplier<Proctor> proctorSource constructor argument should provide a loaded Proctor instance. Typically, this is an implementation of AbstractProctorLoader. See proctor-loader for details.
  • The determineBuckets method signature contains context variables as defined in the providedContext. These automatically get mapped to their corresponding variable names in the context mapping.
  • ProctorResult encapsulates the collection of test-buckets identified for each test in an application’s specification. The ProctorResult is a thin wrapper around a map from testName => TestBucket. This map will only contain tests that satisfy all of the following:
    • The Identifiers contain an value for the test’s test-type. If a test-type is RANDOM, it will only be included if Identifiers.randomEnabled is true.
    • A test’s eligibility-rule must have evaluated to true.
    • The test-matrix must contain a valid test-definition for the test.

Generated ExampleGroups.java

package com.indeed.example;

public class ExampleGroups extends AbstractGroups {
    public static final ExampleGroups EMPTY = new ExampleGroups(ProctorResult.EMPTY);

    public ExampleGroups(final ProctorResult proctorResult) {
        super(proctorResult);
    }

    public enum Test {
        BGCOLORTST("bgcolortst");
    }

    public enum Bgcolortst implements Bucket<Test> {
            INACTIVE(-1, "inactive"),
            ALTCOLOR1(0, "altcolor1"),
            ALTCOLOR2(1, "altcolor2"),
            ALTCOLOR3(2, "altcolor3"),
            ALTCOLOR4(3, "altcolor4");    
    }

    public Bgcolortst getBgcolortst();
    public int getBgcolortstValue(final int defaultValue);

    public boolean isBgcolortstInactive();
    public boolean isBgcolortstAltcolor1();
    public boolean isBgcolortstAltcolor2();
    public boolean isBgcolortstAltcolor3();
    public boolean isBgcolortstAltcolor4();
}

Key points

  • AbstractGroups provides an application-specific meaning to each test and test-bucket.
  • An enum is created for each test and corresponding group.
  • Accessors for each test group are generated and can be used to check whether a proctor-result contains the specified test bucket.

Generated ExampleGroups.js

define('com.indeed.example.groups', [], function() {

  var ExampleGroups_ = function(opt_values) {
    if (opt_values) {
      var testDef;
      testDef = opt_values[0];
      this.bgcolortstValue_ = testDef[0];
    } else {
      this.bgcolortstValue_ = -1;
    }
  };


  // BGCOLORTST

  ExampleGroups_.prototype.bgcolortstValue_;

  ExampleGroups_.prototype.isBgcolortstInactive = function() {
    return this.bgcolortstValue_ === -1;
  };

  ExampleGroups_.prototype.isBgcolortstAltcolor1 = function() {
    return this.bgcolortstValue_ === 0;
  };

  ExampleGroups_.prototype.isBgcolortstAltcolor2 = function() {
    return this.bgcolortstValue_ === 1;
  };

  ExampleGroups_.prototype.isBgcolortstAltcolor3 = function() {
    return this.bgcolortstValue_ === 2;
  };

  ExampleGroups_.prototype.isBgcolortstAltcolor4 = function() {
    return this.bgcolortstValue_ === 3;
  };


  var groups_ = null;

  return {

    init: function(values) {
      groups_ = new ExampleGroups_(values);
      return groups_;
    },

    getGroups: function() {
      if (groups_ == null) {
        groups_ = new ExampleGroups_();
      }
      return groups_;
    }

  };
});

Key points

  • Functionality of JavaScript groups is dependent on using determineBuckets in your Java code.
  • The value passed to init() is an array of bucket allocations and payloads. A method is included in AbstractGroups to generate this object.
  • A Google Closure style generated file is also available.

proctor-maven-plugin

The proctor-maven-plugin plugin makes it easy to incorporate Java code generation into the maven build lifecycle.

Goal Default Phase Description
generate generate-sources Generates groups and groups-manager from src/main/proctor and adds specification as source resource
generate-test generate-test-sources Generates groups and groups-manager from src/test/proctor and adds specification as test resource
generate-js generate-js-sources Generates groups from src/main/proctor and adds specification as source resource
generate-js-test generate-js-test-sources Generates groups from src/test/proctor and adds specification as test resource

The following plugin element should be added to your application’s pom.xml (complete pom.xml example):

...
  <plugin>
    <groupId>com.indeed</groupId>
    <artifactId>proctor-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <id>proctor-generate</id>
        <goals>
          <goal>generate</goal>
        </goals>
      </execution>
    </executions>
  </plugin>
...

The generate goal is executed in the standard compile and build lifecycle. To manually run the code generator, run the following in a terminal:

$ mvn com.indeed:proctor-maven-plugin:generate

By convention, the plugin determines the Java package and classname from the specification’s path and filename, respectively:

.
├── src
|   ├── main
|       ├── proctor
|           ├── org/your/company/app/ExampleGroups.json
|   ├── test
|       ├── proctor
|           ├── org/your/company/app/ExampleGroups.json
src/main/org/your/company/app/ExampleGroups.json
    => org.your.company.app.ExampleGroups.java
    => org.your.company.app.ExampleGroupsManager.java

Alternatively, for a split specification, the format would look like this:

.
├── src
|   ├── main
|       ├── org/your/company/app/Example
|           ├── providedcontext.json
|           ├── examplefirsttest.json
|           ├── examplesecondtest.json
|           ├── examplethirdtest.json
|   ├── test
|       ├── org/your/company/app/Example
|           ├── providedcontext.json
|           ├── examplefirsttest.json
|           ├── examplesecondtest.json
|           ├── examplethirdtest.json

The generated file is sent to target/generated-resources/proctor and must be added separately in the pom.xml for inclusion in classpath resources:

  <build>
   ...
      <resources>
          <resource>
              <directory>${project.build.directory}/generated-resources/proctor</directory>
          </resource>
      </resources>
  </build>

proctor-ant-plugin

The proctor-ant-plugin project provides two ant tasks that can be invoked during ant’s build process: com.indeed.proctor.consumer.gen.ant.TestGroupsJavaGeneratorTask is used to generate Java code, com.indeed.proctor.consumer.gen.ant.TestGroupsJavascriptGeneratorTask is used to generate JavaScript code

  1. Add a proctor configuration and proctor-ant-plugin dependency to your application’s ivy.xml

     <configurations defaultconfmapping="default->default(master)">
         <conf name="compile" extends="default"/>
         <conf name="proctor" extends="compile"/>
     </configurations>
    
     <dependencies>
         <dependency org="com.indeed" name="proctor-ant-plugin"
                     rev="1.0-SNAPSHOT" conf="proctor->default" />
     </dependencies>
    
  2. Create specification in your application’s src/resources directory:

        .
     ├── src
     |   ├── resources
     |       ├── org/your/company/app/ExampleGroups.json

    Alternatively, for a split specification, the format would look like this:

      .
    ├── src
    |   ├── resources
    |       ├── org/your/company/app
    |           ├── providedcontext.json
    |           ├── examplefirsttest.json
    |           ├── examplesecondtest.json
    |           ├── examplethirdtest.json
  3. Add a classpath ref for the proctor configuration and define a ant target for invoking the task. Unlike the maven plugin, the package, groups class name, and groups manager class name must be specified in the ant task. Typically, the compile target depends on the proctor-generate target and the generated-code (in generated-src) is not committed to version-control.

     <target name="init" description="Resolve dependencies and set classpaths">
         ...
         <ivy:cachepath pathid="proctor.path"  conf="proctor"/>
         ...
     </target>
    
     <target name="proctor-generate-java" depends="init" description="generates the Java Proctor Groups and GroupsManager for the provided specification">
         <mkdir dir="generated-src/java" />
         <taskdef name="proctor-gen" classname="com.indeed.proctor.consumer.gen.ant.TestGroupsJavaGeneratorTask" classpathref="proctor.path" />
         <proctor-gen
                   input="src/resources/org/your/company/app/ExampleGroups.json"
                   target="generated-src/java"
                   packageName="org.your.company.app"
                   groupsClass="ExampleGroups"
                   groupsManagerClass="ExampleGroupsManager"/>
     </target>
    
     <target name="proctor-generate-js" depends="init" description="generates the JavaScript Proctor Groups for the provided specification">
         <taskdef name="proctor-js-gen" classname="com.indeed.proctor.consumer.gen.ant.TestGroupsJavascriptGeneratorTask" classpathref="proctor.path" />
         <proctor-js-gen
                 input="src/resources/org/your/company/app/ExampleGroups.json"
                 target="generated-src/js"
                 packageName="org.your.company.app"
                 groupsClass="ExampleGroups"
                 useClosure="false"/>
    
         </target>
    
     <target name="compile" depends="proctor-generate-java">
       ...
     </target>
    
     <target name="makeweb" depends="proctor-generate-js">
           ...
     </target>
    

See example ivy.xml and build.xml gist for a complete example.

However, for a split specification the proctor-gen task must be called with the input parameter as the containing folder of the JSONs, and with the extra parameter specificationOutput as the output:

        <proctor-gen
                  input="src/resources/org/your/company/app"
                  target="generated-src/java"
                  specificationOutput="generated-src/resources"
                  packageName="org.your.company.app"
                  groupsClass="ExampleGroups"
                  groupsManagerClass="ExampleGroupsManager"/>