This PR makes it possible to build the Nomulus code base using Java 17.
Building with Java 11 continue to be possible and the resulting bytecodes are
still at Java 8 level. Also upgraded Gradle to 8.5.
There are several necessary changes to make this happen:
1. Some Gradle plugins need to be upgraded to support Java 17, notably
errorprone. As a result, a lot more "errors" were caught and corrected.
2. All test code are now built and run at Java 8 level. Previously it was left
undefined (which defaults to the version of the compiler) and had led to
situations where we inadvertently called Java 8+ features in production that
are not caught by tests. The change also made the java8compatibility subproject
obsolete, which is therefore removed.
3. Removed the docs subproject. Its main use is to generate flows.md, but it
relies heavily on Java internal APIs that have changed significant with each
version. Upgrading to Java 11 required extensive refactoring of the code there,
and Java 17 again removed many APIs that were used. I don't think it is worth
the maintenance effort just to have a tool to generate flows.md which no one
actually reads.
4. Capped a few GCP dependencies because the latest version depends on
grpc-java >= 1.59.0, which includes a runtime incompatibility
(https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/releases/tag/v1.59.0).
This does not include any styling for now, just wanted to make sure
we're all good with regards to the basic approach. I'm open to suggestion on
which columns to include.
Note: filter searching is not implemented yet because the backend does
not allow for it (yet)
If we don't explicitly handle random unexpected exceptions, the error
that the front end receives includes a big ole stacktrace, which is
unhelpful for regular users and possibly bad to expose. Instead, we
should provide a vague "something went wrong" message.
Separately, we can create a default SnackBar options and use that (we
want it longer than 1.5 seconds because that's pretty short).
We want to do this because it takes the user to an external site, which
could potentially lead to confusion if they tried to use the back button
without a new tab.
This isn't the prettiest thing, but it replicates the type of view /
edit functionality that we had in the original console.
Of note: this doesn't include input field validation, which would
probably be a good idea to add at some point.
Previously this didn't properly deal with nested routings, e.g.
"settings/whois". It tried to just pass "whois" as the next url which
doesn't work with the router because it's nested under the settings.
Using all parts of the URL allows us to handle the nesting.
This includes two changes:
1. Creating a base string-type adapter for use parsing to/from JSON
classes that are represented as simple strings
2. Changing the object-provider methods so that the POST bodies should
contain precisely the expected object(s) and nothing else. This way,
it's easier for the frontend and backend to agree that, for instance,
one POST endpoint might accept exactly a Registrar object, or a list
of Contact objects.
This includes removing (hopefully temporarily) the gradle-lint plugin as
it is incompatible with various Gradle versions (see
https://github.com/nebula-plugins/gradle-lint-plugin/issues/393). This
is somewhat unfortunate since the plugin is useful for removing unused
dependencies, though with the relatively small amount of Gradle code we
write hopefully it will not be missed much. If Nebula changes their
code to be compatible with Gradle 8+, we can re-add it easily.
This upgrade means we can remove the code added in 342051e1.
This is an 'easy' upgrade that requires a minor change in
common/build.gradle and the removal of an unnecessary import in buildSrc.
Gradle 7.4 and above has breaking changes that break the latest nebula lint plugin. We may have to wait a while.
