Can you solve the mystery of the missing Basil? 🌱
This project aims to help with learning how to use the Bazel build tool.
- Bazelisk installed. Bazelisk will dynamically use the required version of bazel defined in the
.bazelversionfile.
John is a basil farmer. Some of his basil mysteriously went missing. Relevant authorities were informed and a crime scene report was written.
- Try not to look into the
BUILDfiles at all. - Try to solve the case by only using bazel queries and this
READMEfile.
The crime scene report for this case is kept in a secret location. You can uncover it once. However, after that first time of seeing it, you'll need to use some workarounds to see it again. This is because bazel is very good at caching artifacts that have already been built, so they only need to be built once (until they change or the cache is invalidated).
To see the crime scene report for this case, build the following target:
bazel build crime_scene_reports:missing_basil_089324If you need to see it again, look at the README.md file in crime_scene_reports for details of how to do that.
Each package in this repository (e.g. crime_scene_reports and people) contains a README.md file which explains how to interract with the targets contained in the package.
Having an entity relationship diagram for bazel packages seems strange, but for this case it helps to describe the environment and the relationships between targets:
Discovering the dependencies and reverse dependencies of targets is an important part of solving the case. For example:
bazel query 'deps(//people:john)' --noimplicit_deps
# Returns all of the things that John depends on.
# e.g. his car.
//cars:74383bazel query 'rdeps(//..., //people:amy)'
# Returns all of the things that depend on Amy.
# e.g. an interview.
//interviews:454235Bazel targets can be tagged with different identifiers. This can be useful if you only want some targets to run in certain environments (e.g. only run a set of tests locally). You can query for the targets that have specific tags:
bazel query 'attr(tags, "blue", cars/...)'
# Returns all of the targets in the car package that have a tag of "blue"
//cars:74383You can test your answer in the following way:
bazel test solution --test_env guess=John
# Use test_env guess=your_guess to make a guess.
# If the test passes, your guess is correct.
//solution:solution FAILED in 0.1sIn the above case, we're checking whether John took the missing basil. He didn't, he has plenty of basil already.
If you'd like a walkthrough of how to solve the case, see solution_walkthrough.md.