Install guide is outdated. | Bazel fails to build

Looks like the install guide is outdated due to folder hierarchy has changed. Install guide shows that java folder is in root of nomulus git clone folder. No longer the case. Ive tried adapting to the folder structure. I created the WORKSPACE, ref’d the folder as per the guide. I continue to fail to build. nomulus /core/src/main/ java/google/registry/

ERROR: Skipping '//core/src/main/java/google/registry/...': no targets found beneath 'core/src/main/java/google/registry'
ERROR: no targets found beneath 'core/src/main/java/google/registry'

To be fair I used git clone https://github.com/google/nomulus.git instead of git clone [e-mail]:google/nomulus.git however Im not aware of a difference in the results as I dont believe the folder structure should change based on https vs ssh.

git clone section

Install Guide Output

$ git clone [e-mail]:google/nomulus.git
Cloning into 'nomulus'...
[ .. snip .. ]
$ cd nomulus
$ ls
apiserving       CONTRIBUTORS  java        LICENSE    scripts
AUTHORS          docs          javascript  python     third_party
CONTRIBUTING.md  google        javatests   README.md  WORKSPACE

Real Life Output

cnsdomainregistar@cloudshell:~/nomulus (nomulus-project)$ ls
appengine_war.gradle  buildSrc         CONTRIBUTORS  dependencies.gradle    gradle             gradlew.bat         LICENSE           package-lock.json  proxy      release          third_party
AUTHORS               config           core          dependency_lic.gradle  gradle.properties  java_common.gradle  nomulus-logo.png  prober             python     services         util
build.gradle          CONTRIBUTING.md  db            docs                   gradlew            java-format         package.json      projects.gradle    README.md  settings.gradle  utils.gradle
cnsdomainregistar@cloudshell:~/nomulus (nomulus-project)$

FAILS TO BUILD BAZEL

cnsdomainregistar@cloudshell:~/nomulus (nomulus-project)$ bazel version
Build label: 0.25.0
Build target: bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/BazelServer_deploy.jar
Build time: Wed May 1 21:45:01 2019 (1556747101)
Build timestamp: 1556747101
Build timestamp as int: 1556747101
cnsdomainregistar@cloudshell:~/nomulus (nomulus-project)$

cnsdomainregistar@cloudshell:~/nomulus (nomulus-project)$ touch core/src/main/java/google/registry/WORKSPACE
cnsdomainregistar@cloudshell:~/nomulus (nomulus-project)$ bazel --batch  build --javacopt="-target 8 -source 8" //core/src/main/java{,tests}/google/registry/...
WARNING: --batch mode is deprecated. Please instead explicitly shut down your Bazel server using the command "bazel shutdown".
ERROR: Skipping '//core/src/main/java/google/registry/...': no targets found beneath 'core/src/main/java/google/registry'
ERROR: no targets found beneath 'core/src/main/java/google/registry'
INFO: Elapsed time: 1.695s
INFO: 0 processes.
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (0 packages loaded)

[jianglai]

@mindhog It looks like we should probably have a fix-it hackathon to fix all the docs, including external docs, rather than doing it piecemeal. There are also some internal docs like how to create a registrar contact and enable console access that should be moved to external as well. What do you think?

[mindhog]

Sorry to have dropped the ball on this. The install doc, at least, was updated this year: https://github.com/google/nomulus/blob/master/docs/install.md Most of the other docs should be as well, though it appears that “developing” still references bazel.

If you’re still interested, please give it a try.