[users at bb.net] filtering / grouping /#builders by url

Thu Mar 16 08:23:38 UTC 2017

Hi Pierre,

Thanks a lot.
Yesterday I pulled your PR, built it, but didn't have time to check. So 
I repulled today, rebuilt and hope I have some spare time at work.

This looks very interesting and should really simplify to implement 
small uwsgi plugins.

On 14/03/2017 18:25, Pierre Tardy wrote:
> Hi Gelonida,
>
> Here is a first version of the flash_dashboard plugin
> https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/pull/3041
>
> there are still needs to be some polishing, but the main ideas are there.
>
> See documentation to get an idea on how to use it
> https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/pull/3041/files#diff-eea13d1ebd483f573175b4da8762a6e5
>
> Please let me know if this is the right level of abstraction for you.
>
> You can use requests to get the REST api, but you can also use 
> app.buildbot_api.dataGet to bypass the REST api layer (and the 
> authorization layer)
>
> Pierre
>
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:05 PM Gelonida <gelonida at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gelonida at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Pierre,
>
>     Thanks for your reply,
>
>     In our context we don't need a real time dashboard (at least for
>     the start)
>
>     I think I will start with a server side created bottle or flask
>     implementation and play with angular at a later time.
>     The idea is to have a view quickly for some users and Angular
>     views are not quickly to develop if you don't have the habit.
>     I did not try with buildbot (and it's js dependencies), but often
>     just getting the node / grunt / gulp build environment up and
>     running can already be painful. So an attractive Angular web front
>     end only later.
>
>     Do I already need a web-dev build environment for hooking up a
>     single url into the buildbot env or is there some plugin magic,
>     that will avoid this.
>
>
>     I'd appreciate a lot if you could point  me to information of how
>     to integrate any url (static / server side) into the buildbot webif.
>
>     If easier to integrate, then the dynamic web script could just
>     yield some JSON file but I'd be curious of how to integrate
>     some non Angular HTML.
>
>
>     My dynamic script could either yield something like:
>     <html>
>     <body>
>     <h1>all release branches<h1>
>     <form>
>     <select name = "branchgroups">
>                       <option value="all">all</option>
>                       <option value="release">release</option>
>                       <option value="develop">develop</option>
>                     </select>
>     </form>
>     <table>
>     . . . .
>     </table>
>     </body>
>     </html>
>
>     or just a json with something similar to:
>     { "title": "all release branches",
>        "header_row": [ "project", "branch", "builder", "builds"],
>       "rows" : [
>         [ "pjt one", "rls/v1.0", "lint_results", [ {"buildid": 4,
>     "status": "pass"}, {"buildid": 3, "status": "pass"}, {"buildid":
>     1, "status": "fail"}] ],
>         [ "pjt one", "rls/v1.0", "quick_unittests", [ {"buildid": 4,
>     "status": "pass"}, {"buildid": 3, "status": "pass"}, {"buildid":
>     1, "status": "fail"}] ],
>         [ "pjt one", "rls/v2.0", "lint_results", [ {"buildid": 6,
>     "status": "fail"}, {"buildid": 5, "status": "pass"}, {"buildid":
>     2, "status": "fail"}] ]
>       ]
>     }
>
>     whatever is easier to integrate.
>
>
>     At the moment I start looking at the REST-API calls, and the
>     amount of calls, that I would need to implement such view.
>     On a first glance this seems quite costly.
>
>     I'll follow up.
>
>
>     On 03/12/2017 05:48 PM, Pierre Tardy wrote:
>>
>>         Question(s):
>>         ----------------
>>         Did anyone already implement something similar?
>>
>>     Well console view and waterfall views are such dashboards or
>>     showing the builds in specific manner.
>>
>>         Does anyone have a similar issue? If yes how do you solve
>>         this problem?
>>         What would be the easiest way to create such a page
>>
>>     The easiest way if you know angularjs is to indeed write a UI
>>     plugin. buildbot UI has been designed for this, and this is the
>>     only way you can write a real time updated dashboard.
>>
>>         I'm not very good with web development and never tried to
>>         change the buildbot web front end.
>>         Would it be simpler to create a standalone page, which
>>         constructs this contents with the help of the web api?
>>
>>     Server side servers are indeed a bit easier. You could indeed
>>     create a separate flask application that would access the REST
>>     api using python-requests.
>>     This can help you to write a dashboard to look exactly as you wish.
>>
>>     I usually recommend to take the effort to learn angularJS and
>>     front end development as I find it did unlock a lot of opportunities.
>>     I do realize it is not practical for everybody, and we should
>>     have an easier story for custom dashboard creation that does not
>>     require front end development mastery.
>>
>>     I will be happy to help reviewing your flask application, and
>>     will help you integrate it as a dashboard in the main UI. I think
>>     it can work with some JS magic to embed a flask application into
>>     a Buildbot UI plugin.
>>
>>     Regards
>>     Pierre
>>
>>

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