Linkage Checker to examine linkage error at artifact level

.kokoro/linkage-monitor.sh

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ cd github/gax-java/
 java -version
 echo ${JOB_TYPE}
 
+# Linkage Monitor checks the compatibility of GAX BOM
 # Using Gradle's maven-publish plugin. No need to sign the JAR.
 ./gradlew build publishToMavenLocal -x test -x signMavenJavaPublication
 
@@ -32,3 +33,7 @@ curl -v -O "https://storage.googleapis.com/cloud-opensource-java-linkage-monitor
 
 # Fails if there's new linkage errors compared with baseline
 java -jar ${JAR} com.google.cloud:libraries-bom
+
+
+# Linkage Checker looks for linkage errors at artifact level: gax, gax-grpc, and gax-httpjson
+./gradlew checkJavaLinkage

build.gradle

@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ subprojects {
 
   configurations {
     shadowNoGuava
+    linkageChecker
   }
 
   jacocoTestReport {
@@ -233,6 +234,9 @@ subprojects {
   dependencies {
     codeGeneration libraries['maven.com_google_auto_value_auto_value'],
         libraries['maven.com_google_code_findbugs_jsr305']
+
+    // Separate configuration (class path) for Linkage Checker
+    linkageChecker "com.google.cloud.tools:dependencies:1.4.0"
   }
 
   compileJava.classpath += configurations.codeGeneration
@@ -336,6 +340,18 @@ subprojects {
           }
         }
       }
+
+      task checkJavaLinkage(type: JavaExec) {
+        // Example invocation:
+        // ./gradlew gax-httpjson:checkJavaLinkage
+        dependsOn project.getTasksByName('publishMavenJavaPublicationToMavenLocal', true)
+        classpath = configurations.linkageChecker
+        main = 'com.google.cloud.tools.opensource.classpath.LinkageCheckerMain'
+        args '-a', "com.google.api:${project.name}:${project.version}",
+            '--exclusion-file', 'linkage-checker-exclusion.xml'
+        // The exclusion file above can be regenerated by '-o' option. See its Wiki for details:
+        // https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-opensource-java/wiki/LinkageCheckerMain#exclusion-files
+      }
     }
 
     signing {