How to Micronaut with Kotlin and Java with Groovy tests

Recently, I came across Micronaut framework. It's a super light framework that fills the need for something in between Spring Boot and Vert.x.

I have been playing with it and wanted to see if I could get a simple project with micronaut framework, kotlin / java intermix for (main) source code and groovy/spock tests. Turns out it's not that difficult. I just had to fiddle with it a little bit to get it right. So to save you time, here it is:

My requirements were:
. Source code in Kotlin and Java with circular dependency (just for fun)
. Test code exclusively in Groovy
. Maven based
. Micronaut as the base framework wiring everything together.

mn create-app --features http-server --lang kotlin --build maven hello-world-example provided a great starting point. Than it was a matter of adding gmavenplus-plugin and maven-surefire-plugin.

Here's the source code: https://github.com/RaviH/kotlin-java-groovy-micronaut

If you would like to know more about how the plugins work with each other then read below. If not, feel free to dig around in the code.

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To make Kotlin, Java and Micronaut work together, you need kotlin-maven-plugin and maven-compiler-plugin as shown below.
Also, you need gmavenplus-plugin to compile groovy code.
Finally, you need maven-surefire-plugin to execute test(s).

pom.xml (kotlin-maven-plugin section responsible for kotlin, java and micronaut mix)

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlin</groupId>
    <artifactId>kotlin-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>${kotlinVersion}</version>

    <configuration>
        <compilerPlugins>
            <plugin>all-open</plugin>
        </compilerPlugins>
        <pluginOptions>
            <option>all-open:annotation=io.micronaut.aop.Around</option>
        </pluginOptions>
    </configuration>

    <executions>
        <execution>                                                     (1)
            <id>kapt</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>kapt</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <sourceDirs>
                    <sourceDir>src/main/kotlin</sourceDir>              (2)
                    <sourceDir>src/main/java</sourceDir>                (3)
                </sourceDirs>
                <annotationProcessorPaths>
                    <annotationProcessorPath>
                        <groupId>io.micronaut</groupId>
                        <artifactId>micronaut-inject-java</artifactId>
                        <version>${micronaut.version}</version>
                    </annotationProcessorPath>
                    <annotationProcessorPath>
                        <groupId>io.micronaut</groupId>
                        <artifactId>micronaut-validation</artifactId>
                        <version>${micronaut.version}</version>
                    </annotationProcessorPath>
                </annotationProcessorPaths>
            </configuration>
        </execution>

        <execution>                                                     (4)
            <id>compile</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>compile</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <sourceDirs>
                    <sourceDir>src/main/kotlin</sourceDir>
                </sourceDirs>
            </configuration>
        </execution>

        <execution>                                                     (5)
            <id>test-kapt</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>test-kapt</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <sourceDirs>
                    <sourceDir>src/test/kotlin</sourceDir>
                </sourceDirs>
                <annotationProcessorPaths>
                    <annotationProcessorPath>
                        <groupId>io.micronaut</groupId>
                        <artifactId>micronaut-inject-java</artifactId>
                        <version>${micronaut.version}</version>
                    </annotationProcessorPath>
                    <annotationProcessorPath>
                        <groupId>io.micronaut</groupId>
                        <artifactId>micronaut-validation</artifactId>
                        <version>${micronaut.version}</version>
                    </annotationProcessorPath>
                </annotationProcessorPaths>
            </configuration>
        </execution>

        <execution>
            <id>test-compile</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>test-compile</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <sourceDirs>
                    <sourceDir>src/test/kotlin</sourceDir>
                    <sourceDir>target/generated-sources/kapt/test</sourceDir>
                </sourceDirs>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlin</groupId>
            <artifactId>kotlin-maven-allopen</artifactId>
            <version>${kotlinVersion}</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</plugin>

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.7.0</version>
    <configuration>
        <proc>none</proc>
        <source>1.8</source>
        <target>1.8</target>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>default-compile</id>                                    (6)
            <phase>none</phase>
        </execution>
        <execution>
            <id>default-testCompile</id>                                (7)
            <phase>none</phase>
        </execution>
        <execution>
            <id>java-compile</id>
            <phase>compile</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>compile</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
        <execution>
            <id>java-test-compile</id>
            <phase>test-compile</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>testCompile</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

Kapt compiler plugin provides support for annotation processors. micronaut does it’s work at compile time. Hence, kapt plugin is necessary.
Kotlin source location
Java source location
For compile goal provide kotlin source location
test-kapt is only necessary when writing tests in kotlin.

pom.xml (gmavenplus-plugin section responsible for groovy test code compilation)

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.gmavenplus</groupId>
                <artifactId>gmavenplus-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.6.1</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>addTestSources</goal>             (1)
                            <goal>compileTests</goal>               (2)
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

Add test sources
Compile tests.

pom.xml (maven-surefire-plugin responsible for executing unit tests)

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.22.0</version>
    <configuration>
        <useFile>false</useFile>
        <includes>
            <include>**/*Spec.*</include>                       (1)
            <include>**/*Test.*</include>                       (2)
        </includes>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Execute any class that ends with Spec or
Execute any class that ends with Test