[FLINK-924] Extend JarFileCreator to automatically include dependencies

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Assignee: Mingliang Qi
• Reporter: Ufuk Celebi
• Created: 12/Jun/14 09:58
• Updated: 29/Apr/15 15:18
• Resolved: 29/Apr/15 15:18

Description

We have a simple JarFileCreator, which allows to add classes to a JAR file as follows:

JarFileCreator jfc = new JarFileCreator(jarFile);
jfc.addClass(X.class);
jfc.addClass(Y.class);
jfc.createJarFile();

The created file can then be used with the remote execution environment, which requires a JAR file to ship.

I propose the following improvement: use ASM to extract all dependencies and add create the JAR file automatically.

There is an old tutorial (for ASM 2), which implements a DependencyVisitor. Unfortuneately the code does not directly work with ASM 5, but it should be a good starting point.