This plugin is built with Bazel.
Clone (or link) this plugin to the plugins directory of Gerrit's source tree.
Put the external dependency Bazel build file into the Gerrit /plugins directory, replacing the existing empty one.
cd gerrit/plugins rm external_plugin_deps.bzl ln -s @PLUGIN@/external_plugin_deps.bzl .
Then issue
bazel build plugins/@PLUGIN@
in the root of Gerrit's source tree to build
The output is created in
bazel-genfiles/plugins/@PLUGIN@/@PLUGIN@.jar
This project can be imported into the Eclipse IDE. Add the plugin name to the CUSTOM_PLUGINS set in Gerrit core in tools/bzl/plugins.bzl, and execute:
./tools/eclipse/project.py
To execute the tests run:
bazel test plugins/@PLUGIN@:sync_events_tests
How to build the Gerrit Plugin API is described in the Gerrit documentation.