More detailed documentation to build a release

[Foxeronie]

Hello!

Thanks for the further development of this plugin!

I wanted to build a release for Kibana 7.17.9, but ran into different errors.

When I follow the the build informations in the README, I get the following error:

yarn install
yarn install v1.22.19
info No lockfile found.
[1/4] Resolving packages...
warning mocha > [email protected]: Legacy versions of mkdirp are no longer supported. Please update to mkdirp 1.x. (Note that the API surface has changed to use Promises in 1.x.)
warning nyc > [email protected]: Please upgrade  to version 7 or higher.  Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic.  See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.
[2/4] Fetching packages...
[3/4] Linking dependencies...
[4/4] Building fresh packages...
success Saved lockfile.
Done in 9.85s.
:~/sankey_vis# yarn build --kibana-version 7.17.9
yarn run v1.22.19
$ yarn plugin-helpers build --kibana-version 7.17.9
$ node ../../scripts/plugin_helpers build --kibana-version 7.17.9
node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:988
  throw err;
  ^

Error: Cannot find module '/scripts/plugin_helpers'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:985:15)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:833:27)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:81:12)
    at node:internal/main/run_main_module:22:47 {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: []
}
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.
:~/sankey_vis#

I saw the script directory in the kibana github repository, so I cloned Kibana, moved sankey_vi into kibana/plugins/ and tried it again with the following error.

:~/github/kibana/plugins/sankey_vis# yarn build --kibana-version 7.17.9
yarn run v1.22.19
$ yarn plugin-helpers build --kibana-version 7.17.9
$ node ../../scripts/plugin_helpers build --kibana-version 7.17.9
node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:988
  throw err;
  ^

Error: Cannot find module 'require-in-the-middle'
Require stack:
- /root/github/kibana/src/setup_node_env/harden/child_process.js
- /root/github/kibana/src/setup_node_env/harden/index.js
- /root/github/kibana/src/setup_node_env/no_transpilation_dist.js
- /root/github/kibana/src/setup_node_env/no_transpilation.js
- /root/github/kibana/scripts/plugin_helpers.js
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:985:15)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:833:27)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1057:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:103:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/root/github/kibana/src/setup_node_env/harden/child_process.js:9:12)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1155:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1209:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1033:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:868:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1057:19) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [
    '/root/github/kibana/src/setup_node_env/harden/child_process.js',
    '/root/github/kibana/src/setup_node_env/harden/index.js',
    '/root/github/kibana/src/setup_node_env/no_transpilation_dist.js',
    '/root/github/kibana/src/setup_node_env/no_transpilation.js',
    '/root/github/kibana/scripts/plugin_helpers.js'
  ]
}
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

Could you please provide more informations to successfully build a release?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Patrick

[ch-bas]

Hi @Foxeronie , thanks for your interest for the plugin!
According to the errors you've reported, most probably you have not followed the instructions of how to run kibana in dev mode.
Regards!