Installing CFSpreadsheet Extension in Docker Lucee 5.2

README.md

Update: I have a universal, albeit convoluted, method for installing plugins: https://github.com/jamiejackson/lucee5-install-extensions

I'm trying to demonstrate that it is painful to install third-party extensions in Lucee images, because Lucee doesn't provide a way to know when/whether extension installation is complete.

After you've spent hours cobbling reliable test for installation completion, some extensions might not be too hard to reliably install. However, each new one (I'm looking at the redis extension now) is its own animal, and each one is a time sink.

To run this example:

Docker Compose

docker-compose run --rm lucee

docker-compose.yml

version: '3.6'

services:
  luc:
    build:
      context: ./
    container_name: lucee
    ports:
      - 8888:8888

Dockerfile

FROM lucee/lucee52:latest

ENV DEPLOY_DIR=/opt/lucee/server/lucee-server/deploy

WORKDIR $DEPLOY_DIR
RUN echo download to deploy dir \
  && curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Leftbower/cfspreadsheet-lucee-5/master/cfspreadsheet-lucee-5.lex
  
RUN ls -al "$DEPLOY_DIR" \
  && echo "warmup plugin" \
  && echo "<cfscript>spreadsheetNew()</cfscript>" > /var/www/index.cfm \
  && catalina.sh start \
  && echo "keep testing the home page until cfspreadsheet is functional" \
  && until $(curl --output /dev/null --silent --head --fail http://localhost:8888); \
       do printf '.' \n \; \
       sleep 3; \
     done \
  && printf "\ncfspreadsheet is functional\n" \
  && catalina.sh stop