Beginning Bazel: Building and Testing for Java, Go, and More

© P.J. McNerney 2020

P. McNerneyBeginning Bazelhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5194-2_5

5. A Simple Echo Client/Server Program

P. J. McNerney¹ 

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Blackhawk, CO, USA

 

In the last chapter, you learned the basics of the WORKSPACE file, learning how to add external dependencies, including new languages. In this chapter, we are going to build off of that work to create a simple pair of programs, in different languages (one in Java, the other in Go), to round trip messages between the two of them.

Setting Up Your Workspace

Let’s create a new directory for our work:

$ mkdir chapter_05

$ cd chapter_05

chapter_05$ touch WORKSPACE

We are going to pull in the Go rules that we utilized in the last chapter. Open your newly created WORKSPACE file and add the following. ...