When viewing nant buildresults in CC.Net the output doesn't have any line breaks and is very difficult to read. ie:
<buildresults project=""><message level="Info"><![CDATA[Buildfile: file:///D:/Builds/MyProject/Working/Root/BuildScripts/MyProject.build]]></message><message level="Info"><![CDATA[Target framework: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5]]></message>
I would imagine that CRLF would be applied after each element. It makes the output difficult to read. Has anyone else come across this before?
Are you talking about "NAnt output" link (it should be nicely formatted) or the "View Build Log" link (it should contain lots of unreadable XML)? Did you change the default web dashboard configuration?
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We recently implemented mandatory reviews (Helix Swarm) for the files that are checked into our source control (Helix Perforce). For now this also applies to files that are tool generated, InstallShield .ism files in particular. Since they are text files, a classic diff can be reviewed. The quality of such a review of course is poor, because the files are not intended to be human-readable. An alternative is to open the files in the InstallShield editor, but only few people in my team have the needed license which prooves to be a significant bottleneck in review speed.
Because of the aforementioned problems we are discussing to abolish reviews for InstallShield alltogether. I'd like to know if there is a feasable way to review InstallShield files, so that two people can have a look at changes in the installation routine.
For now we have decided to just do simple plausibility checks. Compare what is described in the pull request with what information that can be easily grasped from the presented diff of the XML file.
Example:
Descripion: Add/Update Library xy
Check if added/changed/deleted lines are containing the library name and possibly version.
If lines of seemingly irrelevant files changed, it's a reason to report a possible defect.
This may not be a perfect quality control of what the setup will finally do, but at least we can catch obvious mistakes early on, without the need for further tooling.
You can add 'MsiDiff.exe' as diff application by extension in Perforce to review InstallShield ism files.
MsiDiff.exe can be found in [IS-INSTALLDIR]\System.
Here is how you can add it in Perforce:
Perforce diff application by extension
I saw that there is a lua plugin for eclipse and there is a docpage on the awesome main page api_doc and all the .lua files in /usr/share/awesome/lib.
So I thought it must be possible to create a Library or Execution Environment so that one has tabcompletion and docview.
So I tried making my own Execution Environment:
wrote the standard .rockspec file
downloaded the documentation made an ofline version of it and put it in docs/ folder
ziped the files and folders in /usr/share/awesome/lib
ziped all up
tried it out ... and it failed.
When I try to view a documentaion for a .lua file I get "Note: This element has no attached documentation."
Questions: Am I totaly wrong in my doing (because I have the feeling I am)? Is there any way to edit the rc.lua with tabcompletion and docview?
Koneki will probably take a while to setup, but it's definitly worth it. Going for the".doclua"(by using version 1.2) would certainly make it, but I doubt that using a script to generate the information you need, would work out on the long run.
Most likely, you'll probably pass a bit of time to define what kind of object you're dealing with every time you come across one. The right to do, would be to actually take the time to see if the object/module/inner type inherit from an another object, so can actually have more completion feature as you keep using autocomplete to go from one object to another by pressing "dot"+ctrl_space.
In an ideal world, one person could probably make it right and share to other, so they can enjoy a full featured autocomplete editor.
Found solution for eclipse.
First off the idea of setting up an Execution environment was the wrong one.
So the whole thing about downloading the doc although.
For more information on that visit eclipse Wiki for LUA Development Tool.
The right thing to do is to add a source folder which contains the /usr/share/awesome/lib directory.
The bad news is that my comment from above was totally right, which means one has to configure each .lib file in /usr/share/awesome/lib to meet the requirements of the Documentation Language described here.
Than editing the rc.lua (which one can add to the project in eclipse) works with tabcompletion and doc view.
Since the Documentation Language used in the lib files is similar to the one used by "LUA Development Tool" one has not to change many things. Maybe there are even scripts for that.
I have gone thru several relevant looking questions but they did not contain the answer I am looking for. So, here is my question:
I have several web applications at my workplace, which are written using different frameworks and the authors are long gone to ask for feature updates. Hence I have to go thru the same grueling sequence of actions to get, which amounts to a file size of few kilobytes, everyday.
I tried parsing the page source but the programming technique of the authors were all over the place. Some even intentionally obscure the code to not let the data show as text, and there is no reason for this as the code they wrote is company asset. Long story short, I realized if I can copy and paste the textual content of these pages, I can process that data much easily than parsing the page source to get the text (which is sometimes totally impossible)
So, I am now looking for a browser plug-in (in windows or linux environments) or equivalent text based tools on windows or linux, which will load these pages and save the text on the screen to file(s) when invoked.
Despite how hard I tried, I am coming up empty handed.
I do not want to utilize the services of a third party screen-scraping web site, as the data is company confidential and not accessible by outside parties. Everything has to happen on the client end as I do not have access to the servers these apps are running on (mostly IIS on windows front end and a oracle db at the back end. The middle tier, as I have explained before is anyone's wild guess, ranging from native oracle apps to weblogic to tomcat and to some in house developed java/javascript stuff.
Thanks for all the help in advance
After searching for an answer for well over a year, I came to realize, as long as I use windows, a modern version of it that is, autohotkey is my savior.
I open the web page, maximize it, place my cursor (mousemove, x, y) then left click (mouseclick, L) then send ctrl-A followed by ctrl-C.
Voila ! everything is in the clipboard. Then I activate my unix session (winactivate PuTTY) and send appropriate key press commands to launch the editor of my choice (which is vi) and finally send a shift-Insert to paste the clipboard into my document. Then save and exit of course.
As an added bonus, right after my document is saved, I can invoke the script of my choice to parse this file and give me back the portion(s) I am interested in.
I know it is not bullet proof, but for my purpose, it helps to a great extent. As a matter of fact, I can do whatever I want with this method.
What about something like this: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/htmlastext.html
Freeware that converts an HTML page to text
Any of links, lynx or w3m will do what you want, they are text browsers and you can dump text from a webpage with, for example:
w3m -dump http://www.google.com > g.txt
There used to be Dynamic Data Exchange API (type of IPC) in windows which allowed sending notifications with params to running process and they would grab focus and conduct the operation. Is there anything similar in xwindows/gnome?
Like for example, when I get my phpunit errors, it comes with file path and line number. Was wondering if using any bash script or perl etc, I could grab the output and make the line below clickable
protected/tests/controllers/CmsControllerTest.php:17
so it quickly focus on my eclipse, open the file and moves cursor to the right line number.
phpunit and eclipse is just for examples. enough said.
The usual way to address this, would be to make the functionality an eclipse plugin.
There are lots of examples on how to write such plugins.
Moreover, you can probably lean on/reuse rather feature complete existing views (Problems view, Tasks view etc.) so making it look beautiful and matching eclipse should be a breeze.
Alternatively, there is a rich API that you could use to implement your own IPC channel to talk with your test runner outside Eclipse. An example of that is eclimd, the Vim-eclipse integration thing. Specifically, look at it's behaviour in 'Headed Eclipse' mode.
Does CC.NET allow for you to link to premade .html files on the plugin bar on the left?
I know it allows for you to link via XSL, but when I use the XSL for a certain plugin it does not display correctly. But the program can make a .html file itself so i was wondering if i could have it make one then link to it.
I know TeamCity has the capabilities to do this I was just wondering if CC.NET had this too.
And I know about the external links ability, but I want to link to it from the bar on the left, not the main build screen.
Have a look in your webdashboard\templates folder. In there are all the templates the server uses. I think you probably could edit ProjectSideBar.vm and add a normal xxx and use your file name and possibly one of the variables used in the file, something like:
<tr><td>Your File Ouput</td></tr>
I don't know if $projectName exists, but look in the other .vm files and you should be able to find something.
It should work, although I can't check myself at the moment.
Look at the trunk on sourceforge, I just read that in 1.5 is going to be an html plugin on the dashboard for displaying html output...
The Html Report Plugin is what you want to use - it's available starting with release 1.5 as Alex mentioned: http://www.cruisecontrolnet.org/projects/ccnet/wiki/HtmlReportPlugin
EDIT: I've spent a couple of days with the Html Report Plugin and unfortunately it looks like it has too many bugs to be useful. See my issues here and here.