[Buildbot-devel] slave state able to cause buildstep creation?

[Axel Hecht]

Actually, you can do dynamic steps in the build factory. You can't do it
while the build is running, though.

If you do create a dynamic set of steps, make sure to switch of ETAs.

Axel

2009/6/25 Ian Peters-Campbell <mahatmamanic at gmail.com>

> Dynamic creation of steps isn't possible, but don't sell yourself too short
> Dustin.  You can write a custom build step that has some  logic in its
> __init__ and/or start methods that would behave differently based on the
> output of the last step (as you said, with SetProperty.)  It's certainly
> more work to write custom build steps, and it wouldn't be 100% dynamic (you
> would have to have some limited set of choices).
>
> It would be relatively straightforward, for instance, to have steps
>
> PreBuild
> BuildOne
> BuildTwo
>
> where PreBuild sets some property shouldBuildOne as a property and then
> buildOne early outs if !shouldBuildOne and BuildTwo early outs if
> shouldBuildOne.
>
> I think you could put more flow logic into a single build step, but that
> simple example could work for a lot of simple cases.
>
> Ian
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at zmanda.com>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Mike Winter
>> (miwinter)<miwinter at cisco.com> wrote:
>> > The reason I cant do the find and run in the single step is I want
>> > granularity and visibility at the level indicated i.e. a cell per
>> > runner.sh.
>>
>> This is going to be hard -- buildsteps are defined at config time, and
>> are fixed for a builder -- you can't define specific buildsteps for a
>> specific build.
>>
>> Note that you *can* capture the output of 'find' into a property
>> (SetProperty) and then use that in a subsequent step.  But dynamic
>> creation of steps is not possible.
>>
>> Dustin
>>
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