See the Go SDK Developer README at the sdks/go root for getting started with working on the Go SDK. In particular, the SDK is currently opinionated about where the beam repo needs to be copied in order for Go to use your SDK changes rather than it's own cached copy.
Contribution Recommendations
If you're looking to contribute to the Apache Beam and wish to do so with the Go SDK, you're welcome to! This section links to pages with recommendations of what and how to contribute.
- Supporting Streaming in the Go SDK - Help make the Go SDK feature complete, and more efficient!
- BEAM-11077 - Help make the Python Portable runner easier to use with the Go SDK!
- BEAM-11076 - Help make the Go Direct Runner useful, and portable!
- Current Go SDK Roadmap - What's being worked on at present.
- Add the Go SDK to the Beam Programming Guide!
- Make the beam package GoDoc more useful!
- File and add additional JIRAs!
Development Recommendations
- Follow the instructions in Go SDK Developer README at the sdks/go root for getting started with working on the Go SDK, in particular with how the Beam repo needs to be nested in the GOPATH.
- Failure to do so will mean you won't be executing your changes to the SDK.
- Use the Python Portable Runner for end to end testing and validation of pipelines
- Follow the instructions in Python Tips to have a working python SDK environment.
- Ensure you're in the python virtual env.
- From the sdks/python directory, start a stand alone Python Portable Runner Job Service
python -m apache_beam.runners.portability.local_job_service_main --port=8099
- Submit jobs with the flags :
--runner=universal --endpoint=localhost:8099 --environment_type=LOOPBACK
- If this seems like too many steps, consider making the Python Portable runner more easily accessible to the Go SDK – BEAM-11077
- Do not use the "Go Direct" runner. It's not much more than a toy suitable for limited basic batch testing. It's a separate task to make it more generally useful – BEAM-11076