Hello Rob, Did you ever come up with a satisfactory approach to asynchronously processing the build-log?
cheers, Anth On Saturday, October 13, 2012 at 2:24:35 AM UTC+11, Mandeville, Rob wrote: > > I’m running multi-hour test cycles and my users have a demand for > real-time results. If test #50 failed 45 minutes in, they want to be able > to see it without waiting five hours for the rest of the tests to run. > We’ve had this problem for longer than we’ve had Jenkins, so our solution > is to have a log parser separate from Jenkins “tail” the build log, reading > it as it’s being written and writing test results to a database powering a > non-Jenkins web site. Said process is also reading other auxiliary files > (far too many to turn into Jenkins artifacts), so it has to run on the host > the slave node and the build are running on, not the machine hosting the > Jenkins server. > > > > The problem with this is that we have to make sure that everything gets > appended to a log file on disk (so the parser can “tail” it) and to > standard output (so that we can see it). Accidentally opening the log file > for “write” rather than “append” truncates the log and the parser gets lost. > > Is there a way for a process on the slave node machine to “tail” the build > log that Jenkins is getting? Can Jenkins’ output log be replicated in real > time in the workspace? Can a groovy JAR be run asynchronously inside the > slave as it’s building, and watch the bytes go by? Any other ideas? > > > > --Rob > > > The information in this message is for the intended recipient(s) only > and may be the proprietary and/or confidential property of Litle & Co., > LLC, and thus protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended > recipient(s), or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this > message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, > dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. > If you have received this communication in error, please notify Litle & Co. > immediately by replying to this message and then promptly deleting it and > your reply permanently from your computer. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/ab61f0ea-b9e6-4d9f-8c6a-04b8f863bab2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
