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New providers are added in labs (labs, aws, google, openstack) first, until they are stable. For more information on how APIs/providers are considered for promotion out of labs, see How Does an API/Provider Get Out of Labs?
- We use Guava as our core library. Try to use its utilities before adding new dependencies. In general, do not add dependencies before consulting our dev@ list.
We require both live and mock tests. "mock" tests verify that the api generates the expected request according to the method annotations, and that the response is properly parsed. We use MockWebServer to do that, and you can take a look at the MockTests classes of an existing api.
- Often the best thing to do is to copy the entire directory structure of one of the existing apis or providers and delete everything that you don't need but keep some of the files around in each directory to serve as an example of how to do things. You can rename those classes and start your work from there.
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