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Guillaume LaforgeSpringSource, a division of VMWare
F GAELYKa lightweight Groovy toolkit for Google App Engine
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Guillaume LaforgeGroovy Project Manager
on Groovy since 2003!
JSR-241 Spec Lead
Head of Groovy Developmentat SpringSource (division of VMWare)
Initiator of the Grails framework
Creator of the Gaelyk toolkit
Co-author of Groovy in Action
International speaker
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CloudComputing
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IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
Software as a ServiceGmail, SalesForce.com
Platform as a ServiceGoogle App Engine
Infrastructure as a ServiceAmazon EC2
SaaS
PaaS
IaaS
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IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
Software as a ServiceGmail, SalesForce.com
Platform as a ServiceGoogle App Engine
Infrastructure as a ServiceAmazon EC2
SaaS
PaaS
IaaS
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IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
Software as a ServiceGmail, SalesForce.com
Platform as a ServiceGoogle App Engine
Infrastructure as a ServiceAmazon EC2
SaaS
PaaS
IaaS
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http://gaelyk.appspot.com
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http://gaelyk.appspot.com
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GaelykGaelyk is a lightweight Groovy toolkit on top of the Google App Engine Java SDK
Gaelyk builds on Groovy’s servlet supportGroovlets: Groovy scripts instead of raw servlets!
Groovy templates: JSP-like template engine
Both allow for a clean separation of views and logic
Gaelyk provides several enhancements around the GAE Java SDK to make life easier, thanks to Groovy’s dynamic nature
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Why Groovy?Groovy is a dynamic language for the JVM
very flexible, malleable, expressive and concise syntax
easy to learn for Java developersderiving from the Java 5 grammar
provides powerful APIs to simplify the life of developerspossibility to dynamically enrich existing APIs
support for Groovlets and its own template engine
The truth: We worked with the Google App Engine Java team before the official launch of the platform, to ensure Groovy would run well on this new environment
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First steps...
• Go to http://gaelyk.appspot.com
• Download the template project
• Put your first Groovlet in /WEB-INF/groovy
• And your templates at the root
• And you’re ready to go!
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The web.xml<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" version="2.5">
<servlet> <servlet-name>GroovletServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>groovyx.gaelyk.GaelykServlet</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet> <servlet-name>TemplateServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>groovyx.gaelyk.GaelykTemplateServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>GroovletServlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.groovy</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>TemplateServlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.gtpl</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>index.gtpl</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list></web-app>
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MVC: Groovlets and templates
Groovlets(controllers)
Templates(views)
Entities(domain)
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A groovletInstead of writing full-blown servlets, just write Groovy scripts (aka Groovlets)
def numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4]def now = new Date()
html.html { body { numbers.each { number -> p number } p now }}
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A template<html> <body> <p><% def message = "Hello World!" print message %> </p> <p><%= message %></p> <p>${message}</p> <ul> <% 3.times { %> <li>${message}</li> <% } %> </ul> </body></html>
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ShortcutsGoogle services
datastore
blobstore
memcache
urlFetch
userService / user
defaultQueue / queues
xmpp
Variables availablerequest / response
context / applicaiton
session
params / header
out / sout / html
localMode / app.*
Methods availableinclude / forward / redirect
print / println
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Groovy sugar!
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Sending emails with Gaelyk
mail.send to: 'foobar@gmail.com', from: 'other@gmail.com', subject: 'Hello World', htmlBody: '<bold>Hello</bold>'
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...compared to Java
Properties props = new Properties();
Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);
String msgBody = "...";
try { Message msg = new MimeMessage(session);
msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress("admin@example.com", "Admin"));
msg.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO,
new InternetAddress("user@example.com", "Mr. User"));
msg.setSubject("Your Example.com account has been activated");
msg.setText(msgBody);
Transport.send(msg);} catch (AddressException e) {}
} catch (MessagingException e) {}
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Accessing the datastoreDirect interaction with the low-level datastore API
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Entity
Entity entity = new Entity("person") // subscript notation, like when accessing a map
entity['name'] = "Guillaume Laforge" // normal property access notationentity.age = 32
entity.save()entity.delete()
datastore.withTransaction { // do stuff with your entities // within the transaction}
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Querying to be improved...import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.*import static com.google.appengine.api.datastore.FetchOptions.Builder.* // query the scripts stored in the datastoredef query = new Query("savedscript") // sort results by descending order of the creation datequery.addSort("dateCreated", Query.SortDirection.DESCENDING) // filters the entities so as to return only scripts by a certain authorquery.addFilter("author", Query.FilterOperator.EQUAL, params.author)
PreparedQuery preparedQuery = datastore.prepare(query) // return only the first 10 resultsdef entities = preparedQuery.asList( withLimit(10) )
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...into something groovier?
def entities = datastore.createQuery { select from: savedscript sort DESC, on: dateCreated where author == params.author limit 10} as List
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...into something groovier?
def entities = datastore.createQuery { select from: savedscript sort DESC, on: dateCreated where author == params.author limit 10} as List
Not Yet Im
plemented!
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Task queue API// access a configured queue using the subscript notationqueues['dailyEmailQueue'] // or using the property access notationqueues.dailyEmailQueue // you can also access the default queue with:queues.defaultdefaultQueue
// add a task to the queuequeue << [ countdownMillis: 1000, url: "/task/dailyEmail", taskName: "sendDailyEmailNewsletter", method: 'PUT', params: [date: '20090914'], payload: content]
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Jabber / XMPP support (1/3)Sending instant messages
String recipient = "someone@gmail.com" // check if the user is onlineif (xmpp.getPresence(recipient).isAvailable()) { // send the message def status = xmpp.send(to: recipient, body: "Hello, how are you?") // checks the message was successfully // delivered to all the recipients assert status.isSuccessful()}
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Jabber / XMPP support (2/3)Sending instant messages with an XML payload
String recipient = "service@gmail.com" // check if the service is onlineif (xmpp.getPresence(recipient).isAvailable()) { // send the message def status = xmpp.send(to: recipient, xml: { customers { customer(id: 1) { name 'Google' } } }) // checks the message was successfully delivered to the service assert status.isSuccessful()}
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Jabber / XMPP support (2/3)Sending instant messages with an XML payload
String recipient = "service@gmail.com" // check if the service is onlineif (xmpp.getPresence(recipient).isAvailable()) { // send the message def status = xmpp.send(to: recipient, xml: { customers { customer(id: 1) { name 'Google' } } }) // checks the message was successfully delivered to the service assert status.isSuccessful()}
<customers> <customer id=’1’> <name>Google</name>
</customer></customers>
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Jabber / XMPP support (3/3)Receving incoming instant messages
Configure the XmppServlet in web.xml
Add the inbound message service in appengine-web.xml
// get the body of the messagemessage.body// get the sender Jabber IDmessage.from// get the list of recipients Jabber IDsmessage.recipients // if the message is an XML document instead of a raw string messageif (message.isXml()) { // get the raw XML message.stanza // get a document parsed with XmlSlurper message.xml}
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Memcache serviceMap notation access to the cache
class Country implements Serialzable { String name } def countryFr = new Country(name: 'France') // use the subscript notation to put a country object in the cache
// (you can also use non-string keys)memcache['FR'] = countryFr // check that a key is present in the cacheif ('FR' in memcache) { // use the subscript notation to get an entry from the cache using a key
def countryFromCache = memcache['FR']}
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URL Routing systemYou can have friendly URL mappings with the URL routing system introduce in Gaelyk 0.3.2
all "/blog/@year/@month/@day/@title", forward: "/blog.groovy?year=@year&month=@month@day=@day@title=@title"
get "/blog/@year/@month/@day", forward: "/blog.groovy?year=@year&month=@month@day=@day"
all "/aboutus", redirect: "/blog/2008/10/20/about-us"
get "/book/isbn/@isbn", forward: "/book.groovy?isbn=@isbn", validate: { isbn ==~ /\d{9}(\d|X)/ }
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Simple plugin system (1/3)Gaelyk 0.4 introduces a simple plugin system for extending your apps and share commonalities
A plugin lets youprovide additional groovlets and templates
contribute new URL routes
add new categories
define variables in the binding
provide any static content
add new libraries
do any initialization
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Simple plugin system (2/3)A plugin is actually just a zip file!
Basically, just a Gaelyk application, minus...the Groovy / Gaelyk / GAE JARs
the web.xml and appengine-web.xml descriptors
But with a /WEB-INF/plugins/myplugin.groovy descriptor
A plugin must be referenced in /WEB-INF/plugins.groovy with
install mypluginshortcut to /WEB-INF/plugins/myplugin.groovy
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Simple plugin system (3/3)An example plugin descriptor
/WEB-INF/plugins/jsonPlugin.groovy
import net.sf.json.*import net.sf.json.groovy.* // add new variables in the bindingbinding {
jsonLibVersion = "2.3" // a simple string variable
json = new JsonGroovyBuilder() // an instance of a class of a 3rd‐party JAR
} // add new routes with the usual routing system format
routes {get "/json", forward: "/json.groovy"
} // install a category you've developped
categories jsonlib.JsonlibCategory // any other initialization code you'd need
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What’s coming next?Gaelyk 0.4 was released a few days ago
Features a lightweight plugin system
A 0.4.1 bug fix is coming soon
Expect more sugar around the DatastoreAn SQL-like query DSL
Easier relationship management (builder)
Perhaps pre-compiled groovlets and templates
More generally...Anything that’ll come up in upcoming GAE SDK versions
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SummaryEasy access to a cloud solution
Deploying Java apps, as easily as you would with PHP
Familiar to Java folksYour good old Servlet centric webapps style
Pretty cheapYou need a high-trafficed website to reach the quotas
Gaelyk provides a simplified approach to creating Servlet centric webapps in a productive manner
Leveraging Groovy’s servlet / template support and dynamic capabilities
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Questions & Answers
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Thanks for your attention!
Guillaume Laforge
Head of Groovy Development
Email: glaforge@gmail.com
Twitter: @glaforge
References:
• http://gaelyk.appspot.com/
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/
• http://code.google.com/appengine/
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Images used in this presentationClouds
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/627059
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/625552
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/629785
Duke ok GAE
http://code.google.com/images/duke-on-gae.jpg
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/ae_gwt_java.png
Python logo : http://python.org/images/python-logo.gif
Gaelyc cross with clouds : http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/37889
Speed limit : http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/18492
Warehouse : http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/85628
Snow foot steps : http://www.flickr.com/photos/robinvanmourik/2875929243/
Sugar : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ayelie/441101223/sizes/l/
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