[Cdash] Minimal XML submission

[David Cole]

On Oct 26, 2011, at 10:23 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:

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> On Oct 26, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Nicolas Rannou <nicolas.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello,
>> 
>> I would like to submit a homemade Build.xml to my cdash server.
>> I tried to mimic the XML format. (http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/CDash:XML)
>> The submission is successful..
>> On my CDash server, the number of submissions for the project increases and the last submission date is updated.
>> Nevertheless, if I go on the project dashboard everything is empty.
>> 
>> A real "Build.xml" (built by CTest) shows up correctly on the server. So I must be doing something wrong.
>> 
>> I couldn't find any documentation about the required fields, the meaning of the fields or if a field as to be unique. (like build time, build stamp?)
>> 
>> Is there such kind of documentation somewhere?
>> 
>> Please find below the kind of file I would like to submit:
>> Which format is used by Start/EndBuildTime?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Nicolas
>> 
>> 
>> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
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>> <Site BuildName="My build name">
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>> <Build>
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>>   <StartDateTime> Oct 26 08:57 EDT </StartDateTime>
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>>   <StartBuildTime> 1234567890 </StartBuildTime>
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>>   <BuildCommand>This is a build command </BuildCommand>
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>>   <EndDateTime> Oct 26 17:25 EDT </EndDateTime>
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>>   <EndBuildTime> 1319577907 </EndBuildTime>
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>> </Build>
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>> </Site>
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> A build is identified (uniquely keyed) on CDash by its build name, site name, and build stamp. Furthermore, a fourth optional field, subproject name is also used as part of the key on dashboards for projects that have subprojects.
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> Those three fields are required for a build to show up on CDash.
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> There should be some sort of error or warning in the cdash.log file if there's a problem processing a Build.xml file. Did you see anything in cdash.log?
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> The time stamps that look like 32-bit integers are Unix file time values in UTC.
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> 
> HTH,
> David
> 


FYI: you can convert a unix time stamp to a human readable one interactively online here:

  http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm


Cheers,
D

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