[Buildbot-devel] Determining steps based on what's checked out...

[Jarod McBride]

So let's say I have a project that has a list of components in it.  There's a folder for each component and a set of unit tests.  Each component's test can be run by calling...

phantomjs foo/build/scripts/jasmineRunner.js http://localhost:4020/"component name"/current/en/tests/unit.html

So I'd like to have a step that looks at how many components there are in the git checkout, then creates a buildstep for each component and runs that unit test based on the name of the component folder.  Like I said, I can pawn the work off to a shell script to do it but then I don't get the same level of reporting or control in buildbot over those individual steps.

Is this possible now or can BuildBot gain a feature to make this sort of thing happen?

jarod



> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:42:10 +0200
> From: Dmitry Nezhevenko <dion at dion.org.ua>
> Subject: Re: [Buildbot-devel] Determining steps based on what's
> 	checked	out...
> To: buildbot-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <20120315234210.GB23474 at laptop.local>
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> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 04:27:32PM -0700, Jarod McBride wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> So We have a need to create a new feature into BuildBot.  We would like
>> to be able to configure some build steps based on information that is
>> complied after checking out a project from git.  We know there are ways
>> around this by just pawning the work off to a shell script but we'd
>> really like it to be a first class citizen of BuildBot's reporting and
>> error handling.
>> 
>> We'd like to put some development time into the BuildBot project to make
>> this happen but would need some guidance.  Has anyone put any time or
>> thought into making this happen?  Is anyone will to help put some time
>> into making this happen?  It seems like it could be a huge new feature
>> for the project.
> 
> Some times ago I've tried to play with changing of existing build steps
> during execution of another step. I can try to find some ugly patches, but
> they are far from stable/working (and are based on buildbot 0.8.4).
> 
> What kind of configuration you are expecting? If it's just
> enabling/disabling/customizing of predefined step, it should be possible
> to do this out of the box with minimal changes to buildbot code. Just add
> such steps with "doStepIf" parameter and use "WithProperties" for
> parameters that needs to be adjusted. Then you'll need to write special
> "configuration" step that will be executed just after checkout and set
> parameters to some values based on checked out sources.
> 
> -- 
> WBR, Dmitry
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