[Buildbot-devel] Custom functions in master.cfg

[Christoph Spielmann]

Hi,

On 23.07.2012 10:58, Dmitry Nezhevenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 09:09:04AM +0200, Christoph Spielmann wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In my configuration i defined the following function to create a string
>> in the form "0_Sunday",..., "6_Saturday":
>>
>> from datetime import date
>> import locale
>>
>> def createUploadTargetDirectory():
>>        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'de_DE')
>>        d=date.today()
>>        return "{0}_{1}".format(((d.weekday()+1)%7),d.strftime("%A"))
>>
>> I use this function in one of my buildsteps like this:
>>
>> factory.addStep(DirectoryUpload(slavesrc="..\\dist\\setup",masterdest="/bla/{0}".format(createUploadTargetDirectory())))
>>
>> if i type the function into the python-commandline it works as expected
>> but buildbot somehow seems to always get the date from the master when
>> it was restarted the last time (i assume thats when the master.cfg is
>> actually loaded...)
> Since master.cfg is just a python script, createUploadTargetDirectory() is
> evaluated only once :)

Yeah that's what i assumed... You learn new stuff every day! ;)

>
> You need to use "WithProperties" helper
> 	http://buildbot.net/buildbot/docs/latest/manual/cfg-properties.html#withproperties
>
> In your case it'll be something like this
> 	slavesrc=WithProperties("/bla/%(dir)s", dir=createUploadTargetDirectory)
>
> You should pass callable to it, so there should be no "()" when passing
> createUploadTargetDirectory. Also IIRC you'll need to change signature of
> your createUploadTargetDirectory() function. It should accept one
> parameter -- map of exisitng build properties.

Ah i haven't thought of this possibility! Thanks for the extensive hint!

Christoph

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