[Buildbot-devel] access sendchange --property in an extend process.factory.BuildFactory

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Jonathan Schedler <jschedler at imvu.com> wrote:
> My solution seems cheesy.  Is there an orthodox way to dynamically change
> command parameters used in a buildstep based on which properties are set
> using buildbot sendchange --property=key:value?  For example, I have a build
> step that is essentially 'python compile.py' by default.  I want to
> use buildbot sendchange --property=dryrun:true and change that buildstep to
> be 'python compile.py --dryrun'

Yes - generally that involves customizing the steps themselves with
properties (WithProperties or, in 0.8.6, Interpolate).  If there are
cases where a particular step should be skipped (which doesn't seem to
be the case here), then you might use doStepIf.

Dustin