amazon-kinesis-producer: amazon-kinesis-producer-0.14.0/amazon-kinesis-producer-native-binaries does not contain windows binaries

this is a break of semver

Sorry, I don’t support this project. I also need Windows for my target solutions based on this project. Not sure why you ask me to do something… That’s exactly my request to AWS to bring Windows support back.

Thanks for understanding!

@brainstorm ,

The underlying reason was due to the technical problems with supporting a windows build environment in the KPL, which required having separate branches to have a window’s buildable KPL, and lack of resources to setup and configure the windows build environment. This is something we would like to support again, but we are currently focused on higher impact feature deliveries for our customers.

If you or another customer can provide a PR that includes a travis setup for windows to build this component from the master branch, it will definitely be something we can add back into the project.

Any update on this?

OOh wow, biggest “Screw you windows” I’ve ever seen

Unfortunatey, the release notes for 0.14.0 state “Note: Windows platform will be unsupported going forward for this library.”

As someone who’s current task at work is to develop an application that must put to kinesis, for which this library sounds perfect, but is developing on a windows machine, this is disappointing news. It is also not what I would expect from Amazon.

Sad to see that this still is an issue

Thanks @ScottDennison , for the pointer !

Well, that’s really unfortunate for this library to lose a whole bunch of users… We can live with that in the future when we get used already for the fact, but for now we just fail with NPE instead of reasonable error message:

Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not copy native binaries to temp directory C:\Users\ARTEMB~1\AppData\Local\Temp\amazon-kinesis-producer-native-binaries
	at com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.producer.KinesisProducer.extractBinaries(KinesisProducer.java:908)
	at com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.producer.KinesisProducer.<init>(KinesisProducer.java:245)
	at org.springframework.integration.aws.kinesis.KplKclIntegrationTests$TestConfiguration.kplMessageHandler(KplKclIntegrationTests.java:167)
	at org.springframework.integration.aws.kinesis.KplKclIntegrationTests$TestConfiguration$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$e1d24458.CGLIB$kplMessageHandler$3(<generated>)
	at org.springframework.integration.aws.kinesis.KplKclIntegrationTests$TestConfiguration$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$e1d24458$$FastClassBySpringCGLIB$$8e067b04.invoke(<generated>)
	at org.springframework.cglib.proxy.MethodProxy.invokeSuper(MethodProxy.java:244)
	at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassEnhancer$BeanMethodInterceptor.intercept(ConfigurationClassEnhancer.java:363)
	at org.springframework.integration.aws.kinesis.KplKclIntegrationTests$TestConfiguration$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$e1d24458.kplMessageHandler(<generated>)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:154)
	... 82 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.copyLarge(IOUtils.java:2314)
	at org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.copy(IOUtils.java:2270)
	at org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.copyLarge(IOUtils.java:2291)
	at org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.copy(IOUtils.java:2246)
	at com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.producer.HashedFileCopier.copyFileFrom(HashedFileCopier.java:52)
	at com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.producer.KinesisProducer.extractBinaries(KinesisProducer.java:894)