Couple questions

[Joe Kramer]

Hello,

First of all thanks for great tool. We were choosing between
Luntbuild, Continuum and Hudson. And Hudson makes sense most of all.

Questions;
1. Fingerprinting of artifacts is not clear. I generate Jars/archives
in .hudson/jobs/project/workspace and they are fingerprinted.
But when I do the next build, the whole workspace/ directory is wiped.
Where I am supposed to place artifacts?

My build.xml have target like

<antcall target="package">
                <param name="destfile" value="../package_${build.number}.zip"/>
</antcall>

Which places archive in workspace/.
I guess I should copy artifacts outside of Hudson jurisdiction. But
they will not be fingerprinted then.

Or I am wrong completely and fingerprinting is for for source code files?

2. Monitoring project mode, you're supposed to run Cron job through Hudson.jar.
I guess Hudson runs your command and pass output and return code to
Hudson server URL.
I have projects in PHP and want to pass output to Hudson URL natively
from PHP. Without hudson.jar.
Is there API for that? How can I write my own monitoring client?

Thank you.

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[Kohsuke Kawaguchi-2]

Joe Kramer wrote:

> Hello,
>
> First of all thanks for great tool. We were choosing between
> Luntbuild, Continuum and Hudson. And Hudson makes sense most of all.
>
> Questions;
> 1. Fingerprinting of artifacts is not clear. I generate Jars/archives
> in .hudson/jobs/project/workspace and they are fingerprinted.
> But when I do the next build, the whole workspace/ directory is wiped.
> Where I am supposed to place artifacts?

You should configure the job to archive artifacts, so that artifacts are
remembered in association with the particular build.

Fingerprinting is not an archiving. See [1]


> My build.xml have target like
>
> <antcall target="package">
> <param name="destfile" value="../package_${build.number}.zip"/>
> </antcall>
>
> Which places archive in workspace/.

No, you don't want to do this, because Hudson won't recognize those files.


> I guess I should copy artifacts outside of Hudson jurisdiction. But
> they will not be fingerprinted then.
>
> Or I am wrong completely and fingerprinting is for for source code files?

Fingerprints are usually for artifacts, although you can use it with
source code if you want.


> 2. Monitoring project mode, you're supposed to run Cron job through Hudson.jar.

cron job or any other situation where a process is launched
automatically, like inetd, sendmail, cgi, etc.

> I guess Hudson runs your command and pass output and return code to
> Hudson server URL.
> I have projects in PHP and want to pass output to Hudson URL natively
> from PHP. Without hudson.jar.
> Is there API for that? How can I write my own monitoring client?

Good point. Indeed you can pass output to Hudson directly. I just need
to document that.

Could you file an issue for this so that we won't forget?


[1] https://hudson.dev.java.net/fingerprint.html
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