[Buildbot-devel] receiving a sendchange message: getting the list of changed files

[Matthew Morse]

Thanks Amber--that worked.

For anyone interested in the details, one builder now sends a message along the lines of:

        buildbot sendchange --master some.server.com:9977 --auth <name:pwd> --who <initiating builder>  --property samples_url:example.foo.com/%(buildername)s-%(buildnumber)d/some/path/ dummyfile

And the receiving builder has a build step along the lines of:

smoke_test_step = shell.ShellCommand(
                            description = "run smoke tests",
                            descriptionDone=["Finished running","smoke tests"],
                            command = ["someExecutable", "-f", "someScriptFile", "--", "landing_page_url", WithProperties("%s", "samples_url")],
                            workdir = "DesignSamples",
                            haltOnFailure=True,
                       )

The only problem I had was that I couldn't specify the URL with an 'http:" scheme, since properties are specified as:
 
     key:value

...and 

     samples_url:http://example.foo.com/...

...has two colons, which confused buildbot. Perhaps there's a way to escape the second colon, but I simply removed the scheme specification since the browser defaults to 'http:' which is OK for now. 

Thanks again,
-- Matt


On Jun 10, 2011, at 7:34 PM PDT, Amber Yust wrote:

> Use a property for that. (--property).
> 
> ~Amber (sent from Droid, please forgive any typos!)
> 
> On Jun 10, 2011 4:38 PM, "Matthew Morse" <matt at apple.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have one builder that runs a bunch of steps that result in a product in an output directory. That builder then sends a sendchange message to another buildmaster to cause it to run tests on that output directory.
> > 
> > Initially, the output directory had a well known name, but now it changes with each commit. So, I want to add that directory name information to the sendchange message and have the receiving buildmaster get the name from the message.
> > 
> > So, the message (in a ShellCommand step) looks like:
> > 
> > buildbot sendchange --master some.server.com:9977 --auth <name:pwd> --who <initiating builder> output_directory
> > 
> > The output_directory path is sent in the message, but I don't (after much doc perusal and googling) understand how to get that directory information in the receiving buildmaster. 
> > 
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > -- Matt
> > 
> > 

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