Neo4j Server Maven Plugin

Start and stop any version of Neo4j community server

License	Apache License, Version 2.0
Categories	Maven Build Tools Neo4J Data Databases
GroupId	com.github.harti2006
ArtifactId	neo4j-server-maven-plugin
Last Version	1.2
Release Date	Feb 9, 2020
Type	maven-plugin
Description	Neo4j Server Maven Plugin Start and stop any version of Neo4j community server
Project URL	https://github.com/harti2006/neo4j-server-maven-plugin
Source Code Management	https://github.com/harti2006/neo4j-server-maven-plugin

Download neo4j-server-maven-plugin

Filename	Size
neo4j-server-maven-plugin-1.2.pom
neo4j-server-maven-plugin-1.2.jar	14 KB
neo4j-server-maven-plugin-1.2-sources.jar	8 KB
neo4j-server-maven-plugin-1.2-javadoc.jar	35 KB

How to add to project

Apache Maven

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.github.harti2006</groupId>
    <artifactId>neo4j-server-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.2</version>
</plugin>

Dependencies

compile (5)

Group / Artifact	Type	Version
org.apache.maven : maven-plugin-api	jar	3.2.5
commons-io : commons-io	jar	2.4
org.rauschig : jarchivelib	jar	1.0.0
org.springframework : spring-web	jar	4.1.4.RELEASE
org.neo4j.driver : neo4j-java-driver	jar	1.4.5

provided (1)

Group / Artifact	Type	Version
org.apache.maven.plugin-tools : maven-plugin-annotations	jar	3.4

Project Modules

There are no modules declared in this project.

Neo4j Server Maven Plugin

It may get hard to update the existing neo4j-maven-plugin and make it use the latest versions of Neo4j, because it depends on deprecated classes, which are very likely to be moved to some internal packages in the future.

So I decided to write another small Maven plugin, that simply downloads the complete Neo4j server artifact, and runs it, as a user would do it, using ./neo4j start

Furthermore it provides an idiomatic way to configure the server using the plugin <configuration> section.

Building the project

mvn clean install

Usage

start

mvn neo4j-server:start

stop

mvn neo4j-server:stop

Integration Testing

The start/stop goals bind by default to lifecycle phases pre- and post-integration-test:

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.github.harti2006</groupId>
    <artifactId>neo4j-server-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <configuration>
        <port>${neo4j-server.port}</port>
        <version>${neo4j-server.version}</version>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>start-neo4j-server</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>start</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
        <execution>
            <id>stop-neo4j-server</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>stop</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

For an example, run

cd integration-tests
mvn clean verify

Parameters

Have a look at the Neo4jServerMojoSupport class for details.

Code Formatting

File formatting is verified by EditorConfig during mvn verify step. Most errors can be fixed with mvn editorconfig:format task.

Releases

The release process is copied frome this blog post:

• Snapshot releases to Maven Central are performed automatically by Travis CI on every push to master.
• Final releases to Maven Central are performed automatically by Travis CI after creating and pushing a git tag.

Versions

Version
1.2 Feb 9, 2020
1.1 Aug 26, 2018
1.0.1 Apr 1, 2018
1.0 Apr 1, 2018
0.1 Feb 6, 2015