ssaarinen/starter-snake-java

A simple Battlesnake AI written in Java

starter-snake-java

A simple Battlesnake AI written in Java.

Visit https://github.com/battlesnakeio/community/blob/master/starter-snakes.md for API documentation and instructions for running your AI.

This snake is built using a lightweight http server Spark framework - http://sparkjava.com/documentation

Requirements

• Install JDK 8 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html
• Install Maven https://maven.apache.org/install.html

Running the snake

mvn exec:exec

Snake will start up on port 8080

This snake has also been run from within Intellij successfully.

Run the tests

mvn test

Executable Jar

mvn package

Will result in a jar file in target called starter-snake-java.jar

You can then run this file with the command

java -jar target/starter-snake-java.jar

Deploying to Heroku

1. Create a new Heroku app:

heroku create [APP_NAME]

2. Deploy code to Heroku servers:

git push heroku master

3. Open Heroku app in browser:

heroku open

or visit http://APP_NAME.herokuapp.com.

4. View server logs with the heroku logs command:

heroku logs --tail