sop-java/external-sop/README.md

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# External-SOP
Access an external SOP binary from within your Java/Kotlin application.
This module implements a backend for `sop-java` that binds to external SOP binaries (such as
[sqop](https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia-sop/), [python-sop](https://pypi.org/project/sop/) etc.).
SOP operation calls will be delegated to the external binary, and the results are parsed back, so that you can
access them from your Java application as usual.
## Example
Let's say you are using `ExampleSOP` which is a binary installed in `/usr/bin/example-sop`.
Instantiating a `SOP` object is as simple as this:
```java
SOP sop = new ExternalSOP("/usr/bin/example-sop");
```
This SOP object can now be used as usual (see [here](../sop-java/README.md)).
Keep in mind the license of the external SOP binary when integrating one with your project!
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Some SOP binaries might require additional configuration, e.g. a Java based SOP might need to know which JAVA_HOME to use.
For this purpose, additional environment variables can be passed in using a `Properties` object:
```java
Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.put("JAVA_HOME", "/usr/lib/jvm/[...]");
SOP sop = new ExternalSOP("/usr/bin/example-sop", properties);
```
Most results of SOP operations are communicated via standard-out, standard-in. However, some operations rely on
writing results to additional output files.
To handle such results, we need to provide a temporary directory, to which those results can be written by the SOP,
and from which `External-SOP` reads them back.
The default implementation relies on `Files.createTempDirectory()` to provide a temporary directory.
It is however possible to overwrite this behavior, in order to specify a custom, perhaps more private directory:
```java
ExternalSOP.TempDirProvider provider = new ExternalSOP.TempDirProvider() {
@Override
public File provideTempDirectory() throws IOException {
File myTempDir = new File("/path/to/directory");
myTempDir.mkdirs();
return myTempDir;
}
};
SOP sop = new ExternalSOP("/usr/bin/example-sop", provider);
```
## Testing
The `external-sop` module comes with a growing test suite, which tests SOP binaries against the expectations of the SOP specification.
To configure one or multiple backends for use with the test suite, just provide a custom `config.json` file in `src/main/resources/sop/external`.
An example configuration file with the required file format is available as `config.json.example`.