?Project build start & successful build finish hooks?

[jep <jp...@mho.com>]

I am in the process of converting a large project from 
Subversion/Ant/CruiseControl to Subversion/Maven/Continuum(1.1-beta-2).

One of the things done on the CruiseControl machine is to restore a 
database to a known state before the build starts (so the integration 
tests run during the build start with a known state, and it is only done 
once per build for performance reasons).

Another thing done currently, is that if the build is successful, then a 
Subversion copy of the source tree is saved as the last known successful 
build (from which tags and branches are created when needed).

Under Continuum, is there a prescribed way to perform such one time, 
pre- and post-build work? I have currently placed the pre-build work in 
the 'root' pom.xml file (is there a better way?), but haven't figured 
how to gain control after a build completes and test if was successful 
and perform the svn copy.

Ideas?
John

Re: ?Project build start & successful build finish hooks?

[Emmanuel Venisse <em...@venisse.net>]

jep a écrit :
> I am in the process of converting a large project from 
> Subversion/Ant/CruiseControl to Subversion/Maven/Continuum(1.1-beta-2).

1.1-beta-3 is released.

> 
> One of the things done on the CruiseControl machine is to restore a 
> database to a known state before the build starts (so the integration 
> tests run during the build start with a known state, and it is only done 
> once per build for performance reasons).
> 
> Another thing done currently, is that if the build is successful, then a 
> Subversion copy of the source tree is saved as the last known successful 
> build (from which tags and branches are created when needed).
> 
> Under Continuum, is there a prescribed way to perform such one time, 
> pre- and post-build work? I have currently placed the pre-build work in 
> the 'root' pom.xml file (is there a better way?), but haven't figured 
> how to gain control after a build completes and test if was successful 
> and perform the svn copy.

Actually, it isn't possible to add pre-post actions in continuum. We'll add this feature in a future version with some continuum plugins. For the moment, the best way is to add some maven plugins 
attached to the maven phases in your pom. If you don't want those plugins in your dev builds but only in CI builds, put them in a profile activated only in Continuum

Emmanuel