Challenge

Prerequisites:

• Python: 2.7
• Git: 2.11
• Docker: 18.01-ce

Content:

I will refer to input sources/project as sources repository and output sources/project as binary repository. Be aware that is bad practice to commit binaries to repository (such as Git)!

This repository contains:

• exercise.py - script that does all the work:

  • check for sources repository
  • build the sources
  • if the case: commit results to binary repository, send email to notice build failure

• configuration.properties - contains configuration for:

  • smtp server
  • sources repository
  • binary repository
  • workspace

• execution.log - keeps track of the script execution, checks the latest commit of the source repository

• pyjavaproperties.py file is dowloaded from https://bitbucket.org/jnoller/pyjavaproperties/downloads/ , makes it easy to handle the properties file

Flow:

• The scripts:
  • creates workspace
  • clones/updates source repository
  • clones/updates binary repository
  • runs build.sh from source repository - it runs the build based on last commit
  • if build is successful, then commits the result of the build on the binary repository
  • if the build fails, it sends email

Notes:

• in configuration.properties you must specify the source repository and binary repository. If you omit them, the current directory will be used.
• if you omit source repository and binary repository, you must also omit workspace. Current directory will be used as workspace.
• source repository can be the same with binary repository