Using JDK 8 on a Python project

[amoe]

Hi,

I saw several issues related to OpenJDK 11 being installed by default, like:

How to use Java8 in a python/non-java project on Xenial?

We are trying to upgrade the travis configuration for https://github.com/dpkp/kafka-python to Xenial, but have not been successful so far. This is a python client project that tests against a java backend service (kafka). Some of the kafka versions we test against are quite old and require java 8 / will not work on java 11. Any tips to get opendjk or oracle java installed? the simple ‘jdk:’ directive seems to be ignored because we are a non-java project. Trying to install oracle-java8-set-defau…

https://travis-ci.community/t/oracle-jdk-11-and-10-are-pre-installed-not-the-openjdk-builds

I wanted to share a hacky workaround that I’ve done on my project.

amoe/travis-polyglot-test

The approach is basically to manually put jdk_switcher into the repository (as it doesn’t get installed without language: java), then filter the JDK11 directory out of the PATH variable.

If someone has a better solution to this problem, I’d love to know one.

Cheers,
Dave

[native-api]

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