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0012634CDash(No Category)public2011-12-19 07:362011-12-22 09:50
Reporterdoob 
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Summary0012634: Hooks provide possibility to callback to the outside world
DescriptionI think it would be a very useful feature to add something similar like the svn-hooks feature to CDash to enable external processes to get information about build state or trigger any actions. Especially I'm thinking of notifying some external physical device like a build lamp.

I think 'hooks' provide the most generic way to do so.
My proposal would be very similar to the approach used by SVN. Just have a directory there one can drop executable scripts or binaries and have a CDash look after them and call them on different events with a predefined set of parameters.

E.g. most generic just call a script every time the build state changes and provide some parameters to the script notifying about the basic information like affected project, site, buildname, warnings etc. -- basically the same information as a single row in the dashboard would provide.

Using such hook one could easily trigger a build lamp on failure of a given set of projects or on the general build state.
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2011-12-19 07:36doobNew Issue
2011-12-19 08:26David ColeNote Added: 0028007
2011-12-20 03:28doobNote Added: 0028017
2011-12-20 03:30doobNote Edited: 0028017bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=28017#r469
2011-12-22 07:44Julien JomierNote Added: 0028032
2011-12-22 09:50doobNote Added: 0028036

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David Cole   
2011-12-19 08:26   
Perhaps you could hook into the existing rss feed already provided by CDash.

For example,

  feed://cdash.org/CDash/rss/SubmissionRSSCDash.xml
(0028017)
doob   
2011-12-20 03:28   
(edited on: 2011-12-20 03:30)
Unfourtunately RSS feeds aren't provided for projects not on the public dashboard.
Also one point of having hooks would be to also get build state globally and not only on a per project base.
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Julien Jomier   
2011-12-22 07:44   
I think this should be done through the webAPI when you can have a script query the state of the dashboard through that API.
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doob   
2011-12-22 09:50   
I thought about this too, but didn't find some appropriate API function in the documentation in the Wiki. However I think it would be more generic, less complicated to have hooks triggered by cdash than to query the API. But that depends on the point of view and the individual application of course.

The important point for me (for connection to a xtreme feedback device) would be to be able to get some sort of global state for the entire dashboard or a selection of project, not only on a per single project base.