== Requirements Module Arquillian Cube tries to adapt to docker installation you have. For example if you are running Docker in linux machine, Docker Cube is going to try to connect there. If it is in MacOS or Windows will try to use docker-machine, and if there is only one machine defined, it will use that one. But sometimes this automatic resolutions are not possible, for example you have more than one docker machine installed/started, or you don't know if the user is going to have one docker machine installed/started or more than one. In these cases you need to set using `machineName` property which docker machine you want to use. The problem is that you don't know if the environment were test is running will have this machine or not. If it doesn't have then an exception will be thrown regarding cannot connect to given docker machine and test will fail. Obviously this is not a failure, but test should be ignored. For this use case Arquillian Cube and other ones, Cube implements the *requirements* module. This module makes skip tests instead of failing in case of not meeting some environment expectations. === Example of environment requirements With Requirements you can set if you want to skip tests if some environment or property variables are not set. This is useful for example if you require that `DOCKER_HOST`, `DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY` or `DOCKER_CERT_PATH` system or environment variable must be set. Notice that Cube takes precedence these variables over configured in `arquillian.xml`. To use it you need to add requirements dependency. [source, xml] .pom.xml ---- org.arquillian.cube arquillian-cube-requirement test ---- Then you can use an special runner or a JUnit rule. If you use Rule, the scope of annotations are only a test class, if you use the runner then annotations can be used in a suite level. Let's see how to use with Rule. [source, java] ---- import org.arquillian.cube.requirement.RequiresSystemPropertyOrEnvironmentVariable; import org.arquillian.cube.requirement.RequirementRule; @RunWith(Arquillian.class) @RequiresSystemPropertyOrEnvironmentVariable(value = {"DOCKER_HOST"}) // <1> public class HelloWorldServletTest { @Rule // <2> public RequirementRule requirementRule = new RequirementRule(); //.... } ---- <1> Checks if it is set a system property and if not environment variable with name `DOCKER_HOST` <2> Rule definition But you can use the runner approach to use it suite level. [source, java] ---- import org.arquillian.cube.requirement.RequiresSystemPropertyOrEnvironmentVariable; import org.arquillian.cube.requirement.ArquillianConditionalRunner; @RunWith(ArquillianConditionalRunner.class) // <1> @RequiresSystemPropertyOrEnvironmentVariable(value = {"DOCKER_HOST"}) // <2> public class HelloWorldServletTest { //.... } ---- <1> Runner for requirements check <2> Checks if it is set a system property and if not environment variable with name `DOCKER_HOST` Other annotations you can use are: `RequiresEnvironmentVariable` and `RequiresSystemProperty` which basically instead of checking as system property or environment variable, they only checks ones. === Example with Docker But also there is an annotation in docker module for checking the environment against docker machine. [source, java] ---- import org.arquillian.cube.requirement.ArquillianConditionalRunner; import org.arquillian.cube.docker.impl.requirement.RequiresDockerMachine; @RunWith(ArquillianConditionalRunner.class) @RequiresDockerMachine(name = "dev") // <1> public class HelloWorldServletTest { //.... } ---- <1> Docker machine requirement Previous test will only be executed if in the environment where test is running has docker machine installed with a machine named _dev_. === Customizing Requirements You can also implement your own requirement annotations. To do it you only need to do two things. * An annotation annotated with `org.arquillian.cube.spi.requirement.Requires` pointing to a class which implements `org.arquillian.cube.spi.requirement.Requirement`. * An implementation of `org.arquillian.cube.spi.requirement.Requirement` interface. Let's see an example of how to implement a requirement against docker version. [source, java] .RequiresDockerVersion.java ---- @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) @Target({ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.METHOD}) @Requires(DockerRequirement.class) // <1> public @interface RequiresDockerVersion { String name() default ""; // <2> } ---- <1> Sets requirement interface <2> Attribute to set the required version And the implementation logic: [source, java] .DockerRequirement.java ---- public class DockerRequirement implements Requirement { @Override public void check(RequiresDockerMachine context) throws UnsatisfiedRequirementException { String name = context.name(); if (name != null && !name.isEmpty()) { String installedVersion = getDockerVersion(); if (!name.equals(installedVersion)) { throw new UnsatisfiedRequirementException("Docker version not specified."); // <1> } } } } ---- <1> In case of not meeting an expectation, `org.arquillian.cube.spi.requirement.UnsatisfiedRequirementException` should be thrown with a message. After that you can use this annotation as any other requirements provided by Cube.