Deploy is an SBT plugin to deploy projects as fat jars within tar.gz. Deploy uses sbt-assembly to generate the fat jars (with sane defaults, as mentioned below), it also makes it super easy to add configuration files and scripts to your project, making it the ideal way to deploy your application for Spark for example.

The command to run tests is sbt scripted

To install this plugin in a project, simply add the following line to ${PROJECT_ROOT_DIR}/project/plugins.sbt:

addSbtPlugin("me.amanj" %% "sbt-deploy" % "2.3.4")

Please note that this plugin works with both sbt 0.13.x and 1.0.x.

This Plugin is composed of the following subplugins:

• AssemblerPlugin: Enables assembly on a plugin, customizes the assembly plugin ideal for Spark (more info can be extracted from the source code, it should be self-documentary). Makes sure that the fat jars are published, and that package triggers assembly command.
• ShellCheckPlugin: Introduces an SBT input task, which takes space separated command line arguments, and runs shellcheck on them.
• DistributionPlugin: Marks the current project as a distribution project. Among others, publishes the tarball, and runs shellcheck on the shell scripts alongside the test command.

If you want to enable shellcheck plugin to test your shell scripts, you need to install shellcheck first:

https://www.shellcheck.net/

• targetDistributionDir expects a java.io.File, and defaults to: distribution/target. This is where the fat jars exist.
• prepareForTarball a boolean flag to specify if the jar should end directly in the target dir or be prepared for inclusion in the tarball, defaults to true.
• jarName expects java.lang.String, and sets the prefix of the produced jar name. Defaults to ARTIFACT_ID-VERSION.
• distributedProjectName expects a java.lang.String, and defaults to the name of the project that enables this plugin. This is used to customize the name of directory that the project tarball extracts to.
• assemblyClassifier expects a java.lang.String, and defaults to jar-with-dependencies. This is used to customize the name of the fat jars.

• libDestDirName: expects a java.lang.String, and defaults to lib. customizes the name of the lib folder in the tarball.
• binDestDirName: expects a java.lang.String, and defaults to bin. customizes the name of the bin folder in the tarball.
• confDestDirName: expects a java.lang.String, and defaults to conf. customizes the name of the conf folder in the tarball.
• binSrcDir: expects a java.io.File, and defaults to src/main/scripts, customizes the path of the bin directory that should end up in the tarball.
• confSrcDir: expects a java.io.File, and defaults to src/main/resources/conf, customizes the path of the conf directory that should end up in the tarball.
• targetDir: see the same option for AssemblerPlugin
• projectName: Name (or group id) of the distributed project, this determines the directory name that is archived. accepts a java.lang.String and defaults to the name of the project that enables it.
• enableShellCheck: A boolean flag, enables and disables running shellcheck on all the scripts that can be found in binSrcDir upon running test command in this project. defaults to true.

None of the plugins are activated by default, to activate them they need to be enabled explicitly. Let's say we have a project consisting of four subprojects:

• One is for distribution purposes (i.e everything related to generating the final tarball should go here). Called, distribution
• Another one, provides some utilities, but we don't want to produce a fat jar for it, called core.
• And two other projects, we want to have their fatjars end up in the final tarball:

Here is a simple sbt script to do it:

lazy val core = project(...).settings(...)

lazy val client = project(...).settings(...)
  .enablePlugins(AssemblerPlugin)
  .settings(plugin customization goes here)

lazy val server = project(...).settings(...)
  .enablePlugins(AssemblerPlugin)
  .settings(plugin customization goes here)

lazy val distribution = project(...).settings(...)
  .enablePlugins(DistributionPlugin)
  .settings(plugin customization goes here)

To make sure that the final tarball contains all the fatjars we need to package distribution after all the projects that produce fatjars, this is done as follows:

lazy val distribution = project(...).settings(...)
  .enablePlugins(DistributionPlugin)
  .settings(Seq(plugin customization goes here,
    (packageBin in Compile) := ((packageBin in Compile) dependsOn (
    packageBin in Compile in server,
    packageBin in Compile in client)).value
))

To produce compact Jars you can use the shading rules of sbt-assembly plugin. This should be done with caution, as dependencies that are only needed through reflection might be dropped from the final fat jar.

To pass extra arguments to shellcheck, simply add this to the settings of the distribution submodule:

shellCheckArgs in ThisBuild ++= Seq("--external-sources", ...)

You can use sbt-assembly rules to shade/rename particular dependencies, for example adding the following the settings of the submodules which activate AssemblerPlugin, will rename the names space of com.google to com.my.company

  assemblyShadeRules in assembly := Seq(
    ShadeRule.rename("com.google.protobuf.*" -> "com.my.company.google.protobuf.@1").inAll
  )