Re: Dependency between Publishers?

Eric Crahen wrote:
> I'd like to generate some reports on artifacts that the artifact archive has
> archived. I haven't found a way to officially configure the archiver to run
> before the reporter. So far, I appear to just be getting lucky when I check
> them both. Is there a way to express such a dependency?

I believe Hudson invokes listeners in the order they are placed in the 
BuildStep.PUBLISHERS (if not, we should fix that.) So the poorman's 
approach to this problem has been to place them in the right place in 
the list.

It's certainly conceivable to come up with more elaborate scheme, like 
perhaps by declaring dependencies, but I suspect it won't really buy us 
that much.

Also, if all you're trying to do is to record the reports as a part of 
build, and don't really care if it's a part of the "artifacts" or not, 
then it's better to store reports on your own directory. For example, 
junit report publisher does just that. The added benefit is that the 
user won't have to configure two places to get it right.

If you really need to place things under the artifacts directory, your 
publisher can just copy whatever you produced into the artifacts 
directory on your own. I think this is pretty easy and not much code 
duplication involved.

If you can explain a bit of context, I can probably give you better 
suggestions.

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Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Sun Microsystems                   kohsuke.kawaguchi@xxxxxxx

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