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This tutorial will introduce you to OpenMRS SDK (Server Development Kit). It assumes that you have basic understanding of OpenMRS modular architecture (you can learn about it reading Technical Overview).

To get started ensure that you have installed the latest version of OpenMRS SDK. You can find instruction how to do that on OpenMRS SDK wiki pages.

In this tutorial we will walk step by step through common use cases and scenarios.

Setting up dev environment

To set up your dev environment, you have to execute 4 steps:

  1. Create server
  2. Add developed project to watched projects on server
  3. Create debugging configuration in IDE
  4. Run server

We will walk through these steps and create environment to develop and debug REST module on top of OpenMRS 2.0 platform.

To create server, run:

mvn openmrs-sdk:setup -DserverId=webservices-dev -Dplatform=2.0

SDK will fetch artifacts, and prompt you for debug port:

If you want to enable remote debugging by default when running the server,
specify the port number here (e.g. 1044). Leave blank to disable debugging.
(Do not do this on a production server) (default: 'no debugging'): 

Type default value '1044' and push enter. Specifying debug port is essential to setup remote debugging configuration. You will be asked what database you want to use:

Which database would you like to use?:
1) H2
2) MySQL 5.6 (requires pre-installed MySQL 5.6)
3) MySQL 5.6 in SDK docker container (requires pre-installed Docker)
4) Existing docker container (requires pre-installed Docker)

In this tutorial we will use most simple solution: H2, so answer with '1'. Last prompt will ask you for path to JDK:

Which JDK would you like to use to run this server?:
1) JAVA_HOME (currently: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre)
2) /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre
4) Other...

If you have properly configured JAVA_HOME, answer '1'. If not, you need to answer with '4' and type path to JDK on your machine.

Now, when server is created you need to get source of REST module. To do that, in your workspace directory run: 

mvn openmrs-sdk:clone -DgroupId=org.openmrs.module -DartifactId=webservices.rest

SDK will ask you for your GitHub credentials, then fork repository and clone it. Enter newly created 'openmrs-module-webservices.rest' directory and add project to watched projects with

mvn openmrs-sdk:watch -DserverId=webservices-dev

From now on, every time you run 'webservices-dev' server, SDK will automatically execute steps:

  1. Build webservices.rest module with 'mvn clean install -DskipTests'

  2. Deploy webservices.rest module to webservices-dev server, equivalent of manually running:

    mvn openmrs-sdk:deploy -DserverId=webservices-dev

So you will always have module compiled from your sources on 'webservices-dev' server.

Now it's time to create debugging configuration in IDE. Recommended way is to create remote debugging configuration on adress 'localhost:1044' (1044 is debug port you specified during server creation). This way, you can run instance from command line:

mvn openmrs-sdk:run -DserverId=webservices-dev

And run remote debugging configuration from IDE when you need to debug.

Alternatively, you can create direct Maven configuration to run:

mvn openmrs-sdk:run -DserverId=webservices.dev -Dfork=false

Steps to create debugging configuration depend on IDE you are using, but it should be quite easy to find.

Example screens of configurations for IDEA IntelliJ:

Remote debugging

Remote debugging

Direct debugging

Maven direct debugging

This way you can set up development environment for any module and openmrs-core. Remember that you have to provide all required modules by currently developed module.

Creating new distribution

OpenMRS distribution consist of platform and set of modules. SDK distribution is specified in properties file, by convention named openmrs-distro.properties. Minimal valid distro file contains 3 fields:

name= { name of distribution }
version= { version of distribution }
war.openmrs= { version of openmrs platform }

This is sufficient to create new instance of platform with specified version, but probably you will want to have some modules as well.

Let's create basic distribution for development of Open Web Apps  for OpenMRS. To serve OWA we need  OWA module and REST module, because most of Web Apps want to consume OpenMRS REST API. To introduce module to distro configuration, we need to add new line in format: 'omod.{module id}={module version}'. Module id by convention matches module's Maven Artifact ID. For OWA module it is simply 'owa', for REST module it is 'webservices.rest'. We will use platform 2.0 version.  Let's name our distribution 'OWA development'.

To sum up, our openmrs-distro.properties file will look like this:

name= OWA development
version= 1.0
war.openmrs= 2.0
omod.owa=1.6.2
omod.webservices.rest=2.17-SNAPSHOT 

SDK automatically assumes that modules Maven Group ID is 'org.openmrs.module', but you can declare another Group ID

omod.event={ version of Event module }
omod.event.groupId=org.openmrs

You can declare if your distribution supports H2 as database by adding line:

db.h2.supported=true

Now, when we have our distro configuration file, you can setup server from this openmrs-distro.properties file with command:

mvn openmrs-sdk:setup

Replicating environment for troubleshooting

Coming soon.

 

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