[Buildbot-devel] Adding interpolated property in a build step

[Todd Cooper]

I put this in as an enhancement request.  Details can be decided on by the implmenter (maybe I will take it on myself if I have time)

This is ticket #2332



From: Philippe McLean <philippe.mclean at gmail.com>
>To: todd_cooper at yahoo.com 
>Cc: "pisymbol at gmail.com" <pisymbol at gmail.com>; "buildbot-devel at lists.sourceforge.net" <buildbot-devel at lists.sourceforge.net> 
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>Subject: Re: [Buildbot-devel] Adding interpolated property in a build step
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>One option is to extend/modify the definition of SetProperty in buildbot/steps/shell.py. 
>Another possibility would be to use addFactoryArguments on any custom buildsteps.
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>On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Todd Cooper <todd_cooper at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>The problem is that you need to run SetProperty which needs to run an external command.  I usually just have it run WithProperties("echo %(old_property1)s-%(old_property2)s") or whatever string you want to set which sets the new property. I agree there should be something to do this without running the external command. Enhancement request?
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>>To:  Philippe McLean <philippe.mclean at gmail.com>; 
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>>Subject:  Re: [Buildbot-devel] Adding interpolated property in a build step 
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>>On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Philippe McLean
>><philippe.mclean at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> here is an example of using properties to save the output of a command
>>> executed on the slave, then later using that value in another buildstep:
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>>> # determine absolute path of build directory
>>>     factory.addStep(SetProperty(command=["python", "-c", "import os, sys;
>>> print os.getcwd(); sys.exit(0)"], property='absBuildDir'))
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>>Thank you.  However, that's not what I want!  (The doc is quite clear
>>about the above).
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>>I want to be able to define a new property without executing a
>>command.  The equivalent of:
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>>factory.addStep(add to the builds properties dictionary the following
>>{ 'filename' :
 WithProperties(my_file_%(suffix)s) })
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>>Then in another build step down the build
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>>factory.addStep(do something and use WithProperties(%(filename)s))
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>>etc.
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>>So I need:
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>>1)  To define a property that does not need to execute anything external
>>2)  Be able to use that property with interpolation since its values
>>are calculated at the time of the step
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>>Seems like a reasonable request to me!  :-)
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>>-aps
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