Native µservices with Graal and Gradle

In the last post we built the simplest native microservice in Kotlin with SparkJava and Graal. This time we’ll do the same thing with Gradle instead of Maven.

First we need to add our libraries to the Gradle project, including the Kotlin library dependency (as of writing the version is v1.3.10).

dependencies {
    compile "com.sparkjava:spark-core:2.7.2"
    compile "org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:1.7.13"
    compile "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.3.10"
}

And to use the Kotlin compiler plugin again becomes more concise compared to Maven.

plugins {
    id 'org.jetbrains.kotlin.jvm' version '1.3.10'
}

To copy the resources we can use this task:

task copyDependencies(type: Copy) {
    from configurations.default
    into 'build/libs'
    shouldRunAfter jar
}

assemble.dependsOn copyDependencies

Build the service with Gradle and run it to check it works.

> ./gradlew clean assemble
> java -cp "build/libs/*" HelloWorldKt
...
[Thread-0] INFO org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server - Started @363ms
> curl localhost:4567/sayHello
Hello World!

Building the native executable is just the same as before.