Bazel support

[xinxiao]

Could there be better support for bazel?

[Vincent-M]

Are you asking about including the Guice's .jar in your Bazel project?

To get Guice to work in Bazel, you can simply use the jar like some examples show:

maven_jar(
    name = "guice_library",
    artifact = "com.google.inject:guice:4.2.2,
    sha1 = "6dacbe18e5eaa7f6c9c36db33b42e7985e94ce77",
)

You targets can then specify "@guice_library//jar" as a dependency to depend on this jar.

You'll also need to include the other 3 .jar mentionned here: https://github.com/google/guice/tree/4.2.2/lib,

maven_jar(
    name = "aopalliance",
    artifact = "aopalliance:aopalliance:1.0",
    sha1 = "0235ba8b489512805ac13a8f9ea77a1ca5ebe3e8",
)

and the other 2 can be obtained in a similar way, or from bazel's "third_party" folder which provides a ton of BUILD rules:
https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/tree/master/third_party
For instance in your WORKSPACE, in addition to the maven_jar, you can add :

git_repository(
    name = "bazel_git_repo",
    remote = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel.git",
    tag = "0.17.1",
)

and then in your BUILD files where you need Guice:

deps = [
      # ...  your other depedencies,
      "@guice_library//jar",
      "@bazel_git_repo//third_party:guava",
      "@bazel_git_repo//third_party:jsr330_inject",
      "@aopalliance//jar", 
],

Bazel documentation recommends using http_archive instead of maven_jar, not sure how this would be replaced

[xinxiao]

@Vincent-M Hi, thanks for addressing this. I found current bazel Guice import not simple is because other than importing the Guice core, bazel requires me to import additional dependencies manually. I tried to import Guice through Guice Parent, but this is a pom path rather than a jar import, which is hard to handle in bazel. A comprehensive maven jar route for Guice could be handy in my use case.

[xinxiao]

@Vincent-M It turns out that Bazel has a semi-external tool that could help resolve this issue.
Thanks @keith for guiding me toward the bazel tool.

Details can be found here: bazelbuild/bazel#7822