Specifying vendor in Corda Enterprise CorDapp - corda

I am building a CorDapp against Corda Enterprise. I get the following error messaged when I build my CorDapp:
CordApp's vendor is "Unknown". Please specify it in "cordapp.info.vendor".
How do I specify the CorDapp's vendor?

As of Corda Enterprise V3.1, you can specify the CorDapp's vendor my adding the following closure to your build.gradle file:
cordapp {
info {
name "My CorDapp"
vendor "My Company"
version "1.0.1"
}
}

Is this documented anywhere besides stackoverflow?

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Error: Could not find or load main class net.corda.explorer.Main while running "java -jar corda-tools-explorer-4.6.jar"

I have downloaded the corda-tools-explorer-4.6.jar and want to install it on my local machine. While executing the command java -jar corda-tools-explorer-4.6.jar, I am getting the below error message.
Error: Could not find or load main class net.corda.explorer.Main
Please help me to resolve the issue as I haven't got any solution to it.
It looks like based on the comments there's a couple questions here.
For how to run corda:
Generally you're going to want to run your corda projects using gradle to build them. Make sure you include the correct dependencies for each module of the cordapp (remember to double check the build.gradle files of contracts and workflows). For a good example of this check the java cordapp template here: https://github.com/corda/cordapp-template-java/.
You'll want to make sure you include all the corda dependencies, those look something like this:
//Module dependencis
dependencies {
// Corda dependencies.
cordaCompile "$corda_core_release_group:corda-core:$corda_core_release_version"
cordaCompile "$corda_release_group:corda-node-api:$corda_release_version"
cordaRuntime "$corda_release_group:corda:$corda_release_version"
// CorDapp dependencies.
cordapp project(":workflows")
cordapp project(":contracts")
cordaCompile "org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-slf4j-impl:${log4j_version}"
cordaCompile "org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-web:${log4j_version}"
cordaCompile "org.slf4j:jul-to-slf4j:$slf4j_version"
}
The guide for using the new node explorer is here in the docs (it's open source): https://github.com/corda/node-explorer#downloading-the-node-explorer-binaries
Just download the binary and supply the node connection details.
Good luck and Happy holidays!

Unable to build cordapp with accounts dependencies

I was able to build a cordapp using Accounts by following the steps at https://github.com/corda/accounts.
This cordapp was building and running until 03/16/2020, but since 03/20/2020 I am seeing errors in my CI builds because https://ci-artifactory.corda.r3cev.com/artifactory/corda-lib-dev/com/r3/corda/lib/accounts/accounts-contracts/1.0-RC04/accounts-contracts-1.0-RC04.jar cannot be accessed. I get a 409 response now, how can I resolve this?
{
"errors" : [ {
"status" : 409,
"message" : "The repository 'corda-lib-dev' rejected the resolution of an artifact 'corda-lib-dev:com/r3/corda/lib/accounts/accounts-contracts/1.0-RC04/accounts-contracts-1.0-RC04.jar' due to conflict in the snapshot release handling policy."
} ]
}
My build.gradle has
accounts_release_version = '1.0-RC04'
accounts_release_group = 'com.r3.corda.lib.accounts'
confidential_id_release_group = "com.r3.corda.lib.ci"
confidential_id_release_version = "1.0-RC03"
repositories {
maven { url 'http://ci-artifactory.corda.r3cev.com/artifactory/corda-lib-dev' }
maven { url 'http://ci-artifactory.corda.r3cev.com/artifactory/corda-lib' }
}
My local builds on my development environment work fine, I assume because I already have the jars in my .m2
Artifactory configuration has been changed to enforce separation between release and snapshot repositories. corda-lib-dev is a snapshot repo and CorDapp developers should not be developing against these.
Releases and release candidates will be available in corda-lib going forward.
Kindly use corda-lib, and develop again release 1.0.
The pom file with RC04 is set to return 409. I assume Corda's way to disallow use of RC04. May be RC03 is also the same. I just tried this today and saw the repository pom files.
Use "1.0" instead of "1.0-RC03"

Corda wont load my cordapp in nondev mode

When corda is in devmode false it does not load my cordapps. the documentation briefly mentions signing but does not explain how to do it or what to do with the has after it has been signed. does any one know why they are not loading and if singing is the issue how to sign the cordapps and then add them to the cordaserver.
One of the reasons why cordapps may not be loaded is because of the minimum platform version of the cordapp. The minimum platform version is provided in the build.gradle file using the below:
cordapp {
info {
name "CorDapp Template"
vendor "Corda Open Source"
targetPlatformVersion [TargetPlatformVersion]
minimumPlatformVersion [MinimumPlatformVersion]
}
}
The Corda node doesn't load a cordapp if the node's platform version is less than the minimum platform version.

How can CorDapps deal with transitive dependencies

Currently in v2, if a CorDapp references a module X, which has a transitive dependency to a module Y, such that Y is used by Corda, a potential version conflict can occur if the respective versions of Y for Corda and X differ. An example is the reuse of an existing internal library, containing business and serialisation logic, that depends on Jackson.
In this case, the resulting CorDapp packaging and Corda runtime, seem to enforce the version of Y that is relevant for Corda.
If the versions of Y differ sufficiently, we can get such scenarios as X breaking because Y doesn’t support certain types and methods.
Is there a general way that the gradle configuration (or some other mechanism) can be used to restrict the correct version of Y for usage by X, without impacting the Corda runtime?
So I worked this out, and in the process, finally learnt some gradle basics (having come from a maven background). No doubt the following is inelegant and could be generalised better - but it works!
TLDR: shadowJar
Assumptions
you're using the current v2 kotlin cordapp template
the cordapp sub module uses dependencies that either they or their dependencies clash against the Corda runtime.
Solution
1. add the shadowJar reference
In the root build.gradle file add the following
classpath 'com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins:shadow:2.0.2'
to the buildscript dependencies:
buildscript {
// ...
dependencies {
// ...
classpath 'com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins:shadow:2.0.2'
}
}
2. add shadowJar task to the cordapp
In the cordapp project, apply the shadowJar plugin.
Please Note: I needed to put this before all existing plugins for it to work.
apply plugin: 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow'
apply plugin: 'kotlin'
// ... etc
Then add the invocation parameterisation:
tasks {
shadowJar {
mergeServiceFiles()
// Place your shaded packages here!
relocate 'io.netty', 'shadow.io.netty'
relocate 'com.fasterxml', 'shadow.com.fasterxml'
configurations = [project.configurations.compile]
baseName = jar.baseName + "-" + jar.version
classifier = null
version = null
dependencies {
include(dependency(".*:.*:.*"))
exclude(dependency('org.jetbrains.kotlin:.*:.*'))
exclude(dependency('net.corda:.*:.*'))
exclude(dependency('org.apache.logging.*:.*:.*'))
exclude(dependency('org.apache.activemq:.*:.*'))
exclude(dependency('com.google.*:.*:.*'))
exclude(dependency('io.reactivex:.*:.*'))
exclude(dependency('org.bouncycastle.*:.*:.*'))
exclude(dependency('org.glassfish.*:.*:.*'))
exclude(dependency('co.paralleluniverse.*:.*:.*'))
exclude(dependency('co.paralleluniverse.*:.*:.*'))
exclude(dependency('com.typesafe.*:.*:.*'))
exclude(dependency('com.esotericsoftware.*:.*:.*'))
exclude(dependency('org.qpid.*:.*:.*'))
}
}
}
3. Alter the build dependencies
Now change the definition of deployNodes to not depend on the jar task, but instead, depend on the build of each module:
task deployNodes(type: net.corda.plugins.Cordform, dependsOn: [':cordapp-contracts-states:jar', ':cordapp:shadowJar']) {
// ... etc
}

Can't understand gradle jar task code that creates executable fat-jar

I am learning Gradle but I don't understand the jar task code that creates a jar with all the dependencies inside ( taken from Gradle Cookbook ):
jar {
baseName = jarBaseName
manifest { attributes "Main-Class": mainClass }
from { configurations.compile.collect { it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it) } }
}
My questions are:
1.The task name is jar. Because it's not written like jar<<{...} I'm assuming that this is run in the configuration phase, and not the execution one. Am I correct?
2.What exactly is configurations.compile? I'm assuming that some kind of dependencies classpath is queried, and each jar is zipTree-ed. Then all of this stuff is merged with the base classpath
. Please elaborate about it
3.The zipTree method, I'm assuming it kind of unarchives each jar but I'm not sure. Am I correct?
Regards,
Yes You're correct. When no action added (mostly with << see docs) the code is run at configuration phase. The code You provided is also run at configuration phase.
configurations.compile refers to a configuration named compile using configurations object (a kind of a configurations container). Prior to gradle 2.0 compile configuration is provided by default with java plugin. AFAIR now it's called javaCompile. According to zipTree You're also correct.
Yes You're.

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