DEVELOPMENT.md

development hints and notes for lib-bpmn-engine

update Zeebe exporter protobuf

1. get new source file from https://github.com/camunda-community-hub/zeebe-exporter-protobuf/tree/master/src/main/proto
2. ensure you have latest protoc in your path installed
3. switch to folder pkg/bpmn_engine/exporter/zeebe
4. run protoc --go_opt=paths=source_relative --go_out=. --go_opt=Mschema.proto=zeebe/ schema.proto

update documentation

The documentation on Github pages is build via MkDocs.

local building and testing documentation

1. ensure you have a Python 3.8+ environment installed
2. install MkDocs, according to their https://www.mkdocs.org/user-guide/installation/
3. within this source repo, run mkdocs build to get a version of the HTML files

Alternatively, you could use mkdocs serve to have a local test-server running, which eases the manual validation/verification of documentation updates.

automated Github Pages update

There's a Github Action update-gh-pages.yaml, which automatically will update the pages on every push to the main branch

linting

From time to time, do some linting (would be better automatically checked via Github actions) Using go-critic

gocritic check ./...