Nice! Have been waiting for Perforce support.

Nice plugin. Unfortunately this plugin (v1.0.10) can not check out from a label yet, see https://hudson.dev.java.net/servlets/BrowseList?list=dev&by=thread&from=976444

In my environment, when a file is deleted Hudson does not detect it. It might be a Perforce configuration issue, but thanks to Hudson's flexibility, I could provide a quick workaround by enabling the "Shell script" option and adding the following command:

p4 sync "$PWD/..."

(sure, it's a Unix-only trick, but I don't even consider running CI on Winblows

Hi,

Trying to use this plugin with our version of perforce (2003.2 56323), but am getting these error:Caught Exception communicating with perforce. Error in client specification. Error detected at line 7. Null directory (//) not allowed in '///...'.
For Command: p4 -s client -i
With Data:
===================
Client:
Description:
Root: C:\Development\XP\CI\Hudson\jobs\Framework\workspace\
Options:
LineEnd:
View:
//depot/Framework/current/... ///...

Why isnt there a clientspec name in the view definition?

Thanks

Mike 

Hello,

 When building on a slave machine our code is being checked out on the master machine.  Is there anyway to get it to checkout to the slave machine?

 Thanks,

Bila

Hi,

Is it possible to name a build by latest change list number ?

Is it possible to add change list number to notification emails ?

Hi.

hudson : ver1.270
p4.exe  P4/NTX86/2007.3/143793 (2008/01/21).
perforce_plugin :1.0.12

 When I tried to label a build , I get the following exception:

--

java.io.IOException: Failed to issue perforce label. Error in label specification. Error detected at line 5. Unknown field name 'Revision'.
For Command: p4 -s label -i
With Data:
===================
Label: hoge-Build-57
Owner:
Description:
    Changelist: 106
Revision: 106
Options:
View:
    //depot/...

Hi!

I was looking for a fix of an issue in Perforce plugin, and I found out, that it has already been fixed in the source code, but it has NOT yet been published in a stable build. Please see my comment in issue #1100 (https://hudson.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1100). Further, I'm interested in getting the fix for issue #1745 (https://hudson.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1745), because I encountered the same problem.

I am looking very much forward to a new stable build of the Perforce plugin - when will it be released?

Or how can I access a snapshot-version (talking in Maven dialect) of the Perforce plugin?

Thanks for your help,

Chris

The 1.0.13 release no longer appears to honor the Let Hudson Manage Workspace View flag; Hudson always tries to manage the workspace view, even when the flag is deliberately unset, and as a result it can't cope with the Depot Path set to //... .  Had to revert to 1.0.12 of the plugin after this generated a series of build failures.

I installed the Trac Plugin and wanted to set "Trac" for the "Repository browser" setting in the Source Code Management section for Perforce but it is not available (it is available for the SVN SCM)

How  can Trac be added there (P4Web and FishEye are available) or has it to be implemented which would be nice if you could do

Hi! All,

I'm trying to use perforce plugin for setting up my contineous build environment.

The worst part here is i am not getting any error from perforce plugin so that i can debug that where am i going wrong in configuring environment.

I am following steps described in this tutorial.

whenever it invokes perforce plugin logs shows up  onlyStarted on Jul 23, 2009 2:23:37 PM
Looking for changes...
Using master perforce client: chirag.dave_hudson
[workspace] $ p4 workspace -o chirag.dave_hudson
and hangs up. 

I am using hudson 1.314

and perforce :- 1.0.14

Perforce client version - 2008.1/158777

Here is the configuration data that i have been trying.

[perforce_plugin_err.bmp]

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Dave. 

On another note, I'm just getting started on Hudson and wonder how is the FishEye integration supposed to work? My project has a view like this:

//depot/userbranches/ulfertsm-main/main/... //hudson_ulfertsm-main-DEVBUILD-HUDSON-V/...

//depot/zpm/main/build/new-nightly/bamboo/local-product.properties //hudson_ulfertsm-main-DEVBUILD-HUDSON-V/local.properties

//depot/3rdparty/jboss/4.2.3/... //hudson_ulfertsm-main-DEVBUILD-HUDSON-V/jboss/...

And I've defined the FishEye URL as "http://devtools2-v.austx.zilliant.com/browse/Zilliant_Perforce/", the top of the Perforce depot which may or may not be correct (I'm mostly interested in being able to see files under the userbranch above). I do end up with hyperlinked files in the changes area, but a file like this:

 //depot/userbranches/ulfertsm-main/main/policymgt/optimization/server/product/config/pricingDocumentDefinitions/optimization/EngineRecommendations.xml

ends up with a link like this:

 http://devtools2-v.austx.zilliant.com/depot/userbranches/ulfertsm-main/main/policymgt/optimization/server/product/config/pricingDocumentDefinitions/optimization/EngineRecommendations.xml

Which doesn't work nor any URL that begins with depot after the server. The URL I might have expected Hudson to make that does work is:

 http://devtools2-v.austx.zilliant.com/browse/Zilliant_Perforce/userbranches/ulfertsm-main/main/policymgt/optimization/server/product/config/pricingDocumentDefinitions/optimization/EngineRecommendations.xml

So is this something wrong with my configuration or with the plugin?

Hi, Perforce is strongly being used in our build processes @ EA. I was able to configure the Perforce plugin in hudson but really need to be able to just sync a certain directory of the current workspace like in the Perforce front end. So multiple Hudson jobs would share a workspace but "filtering"it to just get a single unique directory.

Could that be handled by adding some options to the p4.exe called by the client? (wrapping the call with another script for instance). If not where I could place this request?

thanks 

I recently updated to Hudson 1.326 from 1.299... I also update to the latest perforce plugin, and now, although some projects work, others do not... In my catalina log I get the following error (over and over again):

com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.NonExistentFieldException: No such field hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.nodeSuffix
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.FieldDictionary.field(FieldDictionary.java:106)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.PureJavaReflectionProvider.getFieldType(PureJavaReflectionProvider.java:152)
        at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.determineType(RobustReflectionConverter.java:327)
        at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.doUnmarshal(RobustReflectionConverter.java:218)
        at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.unmarshal(RobustReflectionConverter.java:173)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convert(TreeUnmarshaller.java:82)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.convert(AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.java:63)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:76)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:60)
        at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.unmarshallField(RobustReflectionConverter.java:262)
        at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.doUnmarshal(RobustReflectionConverter.java:222)
        at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.unmarshal(RobustReflectionConverter.java:173)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convert(TreeUnmarshaller.java:82)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.convert(AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.java:63)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:76)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:60)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.start(TreeUnmarshaller.java:137)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractTreeMarshallingStrategy.unmarshal(AbstractTreeMarshallingStrategy.java:33)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.unmarshal(XStream.java:923)
        at hudson.util.XStream2.unmarshal(XStream2.java:67)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.unmarshal(XStream.java:909)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.fromXML(XStream.java:853)
        at hudson.XmlFile.read(XmlFile.java:126)
        at hudson.model.Items.load(Items.java:106)
        at hudson.model.Hudson$9.call(Hudson.java:1995)
        at hudson.model.Hudson$9.call(Hudson.java:1988)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Oct 2, 2009 12:03:00 PM hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter doUnmarshal

What do I need to do to make this work? Is there a newer version in the works?

Information is showing lot of success stories of Perforce integration with Hudson but I have issues while setting up as Master/Slave configuration. I am getting following exception:

[workspace] $ p4 workspace -o
Caught Exception communicating with perforce. Connect to server failed; check $P4PORTcom.tek42.perforce.PerforceException: Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT
at com.tek42.perforce.parse.AbstractPerforceTemplate.getPerforceResponse(AbstractPerforceTemplate.java:324)
at com.tek42.perforce.parse.Workspaces.getWorkspace(Workspaces.java:53)
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.getPerforceWorkspace(PerforceSCM.java:699)
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.checkout(PerforceSCM.java:295)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:973)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.checkout(AbstractBuild.java:400)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:349)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1120)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:123)

I'd find critical defect using linux master with linux slave ( Ubuntu 9.04 64bit ).
Both of perforce version 1.0.13 & 1.0.14 has this problem when using perforce.hpi.
===========================================================================================================================
Using shared perforce client: (my_client_workspace_name)
Caught Exception communicating with perforce. No output for: p4 workspace -o (my_client_workspace_name) com.tek42.perforce.PerforceException: No output for: p4 workspace -o SE_SCM_TEST_USER_1
at com.tek42.perforce.parse.AbstractPerforceTemplate.getPerforceResponse(AbstractPerforceTemplate.java:326)
at com.tek42.perforce.parse.Workspaces.getWorkspace(Workspaces.java:53)
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.getPerforceWorkspace(PerforceSCM.java:1417)
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.getWorkspaceFull(PerforceSCM.java:397)
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.checkout(PerforceSCM.java:343)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:978)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.checkout(AbstractBuild.java:421)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:370)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1120)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:123)
=========================

..

Hi!

First of all, let me thank you for this nice plugin.

However, there is one thing that doesn't work as expected: From time to time the plugin won't check out (e.g. get latest version) all the changed files in a directory.

There are, for example, two files that have been changed in the latest submitted changelist:

- file1.build

- file2.vbs

The perforce plugin, however, only detects the .build-file as being changed - the other file won't be checked out by the plugin at all!

What can I do? Can you give me some advice or maybe some hints?

Best Regards,

Julian

Hi,

Thanks for this plugin.  When I try to congiure it, I get this below the workspace name:

"Unable to check workspace against depot"

When I run the job, this repeats over and over.  I have the depot working fine from my command line.
Using master perforce client: btomasini-ws-hudson
[workspace] $ p4 workspace -o btomasini-ws-hudson
Caught Exception communicating with perforce. Connect to server failed; check $P4PORTcom.tek42.perforce.PerforceException: Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT
at com.tek42.perforce.parse.AbstractPerforceTemplate.getPerforceResponse(AbstractPerforceTemplate.java:324)
at com.tek42.perforce.parse.Workspaces.getWorkspace(Workspaces.java:53)
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.getPerforceWorkspace(PerforceSCM.java:649)
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.checkout(PerforceSCM.java:260)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1005)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.checkout(AbstractBuild.java:431)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:378)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1176)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.run(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:304)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:123)

I've installed the latest version of Hudson in combination with the latest version of the Perforce Plugin, but I can't getting it to work. This is my output :

Started by user anonymous
Using master perforce client: HUDSON-BUILD
[workspace] $ p4 workspace -o HUDSON-BUILD
Caught exception communicating with perforce. No output for: p4 workspace -o HUDSON-BUILD com.tek42.perforce.PerforceException: No output for: p4 workspace -o HUDSON-BUILD
    at com.tek42.perforce.parse.AbstractPerforceTemplate.getPerforceResponse(AbstractPerforceTemplate.java:322)
    at com.tek42.perforce.parse.Workspaces.getWorkspace(Workspaces.java:53)
    at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.getPerforceWorkspace(PerforceSCM.java:670)
    at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.checkout(PerforceSCM.java:293)
    at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1013)
    at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.checkout(AbstractBuild.java:486)
    at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:412)
    at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1179)
    at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
    at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
    at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:122)
Finished: FAILURE

My environment is : Ubuntu Linux 8.04.3 - 64 bit / Hudson 1.3339 / Perforce plugin 1.0.16

Also the configuration of a project gives problems : I always get the message "Unable to check workspace against depot", but my "p4" executable is available for all users on the system.

Where can I file a request for the Perforce plugin to provide a way to consume a Hudson property when specifying the View in the plugin GUI. In the current version (1.0.16), the Perforce View requires you to specify both the depot-location and local-workspace as such:

//depot-location/... //local-workspace-view-of-depot

I'd like to be able to define my own Hudson properties some.property and some.other.property, and have them consumed by the Perforce plugin:

//some.property //some.other.property

A colleague of mine mentioned there are other Hudson plugins which consume Hudson properties as I've described, and makes the Perforce plug-in a lot more robust.

I used this on one mac without any issues. But when I tried on a second mac, set up identically (afaict), when a build starts it just hangs. when I abort the build I see this call stack (interrupted by my abort):

at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:474)
at hudson.slaves.WorkspaceList.acquire(WorkspaceList.java:173)
at hudson.slaves.WorkspaceList.acquire(WorkspaceList.java:161)
at hudson.slaves.WorkspaceList.allocate(WorkspaceList.java:129)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.decideWorkspace(AbstractBuild.java:391)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild$RunnerImpl.decideWorkspace(FreeStyleBuild.java:56)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:405)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1198)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:122)

I don't know how to start to debug this!? The perforce info was accepted (eg no red message about not being able to view/read the workspace).

How can I get more info to debug? Is this a perforce plugin issue or a hudson issue (or combination?).

Any help/suggestions appreciated.
Peter

Feature request for Perforce plugin (where is the best place to post this?): "Changelist to sync to"

I may take a stab at looking at the source, but for now, I'll request somebody else do this for me!-)

Rather than a label (which some have reported doesn't work), I'd like to be able to manually specify a changelist number to be used for the sync and build. Seems like it would be close to the label option, hopefully somebody else would find this useful?

Peter

I used copy project to start a new project (workspace). It's a complete branch of an existing project so the only thing to change was the perforce workspace name. Everything seems to work but the perforce plugin section says that the workspace does not exist (even though it does). I'm wondering if this is because of creating the project via copy project or something?

I am using Hudson 1.343 with the Perforce plugin 1.0.18, and the value for "Path to p4 executable" now requires "p4.exe" to be appended to the path.  Was this change intended?

Is there a way to make the plugin perform a force sync every time a build is started?

Enhancement wish / request

I am using Perforce with multiple views whilst a certain area of the view has build related tools for example:
//depot/Common/Infra/JEE/ver1.0/... //Infra-JEE-ver1.0-site/...
//depot/Configuration/cm/... //Infra-JEE-ver1.0-site/cm/...

If I change something in path: //depot/Configuration/cm/ all SCM triggered builds are queued for build is there a way to exclude changes by path e.g like in subversion plugin see example screenshot:

I don't know if this is a plugin question or hudson api question but I noticed that the email extension has some replace macros/variables one of which is CHANGES so that you can embed the changelists. It would be nice if similar things could be exposed to the batch scripts eg the changelist it is syncing to, list of changes, etc

After updating to 1.0.19, it seems to have lost the ability to poll the perforce server. Is there a way to get at the previous version again?

Oh, it syncs fine if I schedule the build manually by the way. I see this in the log:

Feb 15, 2010 7:52:22 PM hudson.triggers.SCMTrigger$Runner runPolling
SEVERE: Failed to record SCM polling
java.lang.NullPointerException
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.getPerforceWorkspace(PerforceSCM.java:739)
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.pollChanges(PerforceSCM.java:538)
at hudson.scm.SCM.poll(SCM.java:344)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.poll(AbstractProject.java:1150)
at hudson.triggers.SCMTrigger$Runner.runPolling(SCMTrigger.java:319)
at hudson.triggers.SCMTrigger$Runner.run(SCMTrigger.java:346)
at hudson.util.SequentialExecutionQueue$QueueEntry.run(SequentialExecutionQueue.java:118)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

It looks like the plugin uses master's P4 path on a slave (master is 64 bit Windows, but slaves are 32 bit). This is what I get after few recent updates:

[XXX] $ "C:\Program Files (x86)\Perforce\p4.exe" workspace -o YYY
Caught exception communicating with perforce. No output for: C:\Program Files (x86)\Perforce\p4.exe workspace -o YYY
com.tek42.perforce.PerforceException: No output for: C:\Program Files (x86)\Perforce\p4.exe workspace -o YYY
at com.tek42.perforce.parse.AbstractPerforceTemplate.getPerforceResponse(AbstractPerforceTemplate.java:336)
at com.tek42.perforce.parse.Workspaces.getWorkspace(Workspaces.java:53)
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.getPerforceWorkspace(PerforceSCM.java:723)
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.checkout(PerforceSCM.java:330)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1024)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.checkout(AbstractBuild.java:479)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:411)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1198)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:122)
Archiving artifacts
Sending e-mails to: ZZZ
Finished: FAILURE

Thanks for fixing that previous issue so quickly. I have another problem though now. I'm using just one perforce workspace and allowing Hudson to change the view according to the current job. The problem is that it doesn't force the sync to the changelist for each job. This means that one job will sync correctly to the changelist number, but the next one won't get any files since perforce thinks that the workspace is up to date.

How do I work around this? I'm using the free perforce, so I only have 5 workspaces to use.

Hi,

I upgraded Hudson as well as Perforce to 1.349 and 1.023 respectively.

Hudson syncs in a maven project from Perforce server and my build process depends on the pom.xml which was synced recently.

But to my surprise, the pom.xml gets deleted every time I trigger a build, to sync latest from Perforce. This makes my build fail due to unavailability of the pom.xml.

Please help as this crucial for my project needs.

I have Hudson 1.351 and the Perforce plugin 1.0.24 installed.  Is there a limit to the length of the string used for the client name?  I had a client named "TEST-CI-cmo-app-main-master", and when the system attempted to poll perforce for changes (in a master slave environment), I got the following error:

[TEST-CI-cmo-app-main] $ c:\\perforce
p4.exe changes -m 2 //TEST-CI-cmo-app-main-master-854888031/...
ERROR: Failed to record SCM polling
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "-"
    at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:48)
    at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:474)
    at java.lang.Integer.<init>(Integer.java:620)
    at com.tek42.perforce.parse.Changes.getChangeNumbers(Changes.java:144)
    at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.needToBuild(PerforceSCM.java:663)
    at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.pollChanges(PerforceSCM.java:570)
    at hudson.scm.SCM.poll(SCM.java:370)
    at hudson.model.AbstractProject.poll(AbstractProject.java:1153)
    at hudson.triggers.SCMTrigger$Runner.runPolling(SCMTrigger.java:330)
    at hudson.triggers.SCMTrigger$Runner.run(SCMTrigger.java:359)
    at hudson.util.SequentialExecutionQueue$QueueEntry.run(SequentialExecutionQueue.java:118)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:417)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:269)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:123)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:650)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:675)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

I changed the client name in the job configuration to "T-CI-cmo-app-main", and the polling error went away.

I have been unable to upgrade to the latest version of the P4 Hudson plugin.Perforce plug-in version 1.0.15 is the last version that seems to work. As soon as I upgrade (everything works fine beforehand), I see the following error in the job configuration view: "Unable to check workspace against depot"

Tomcat log shows:

hudson home directory: c:\src\hudson
Green Balls!
93 [Handling GET /hudson/scm/PerforceSCM/validatePerforceLogin : http-8080-2] INFO perforce - Executing: C:\Program Files\Perforce counter change
109 [Handling GET /hudson/scm/PerforceSCM/validateP4Client : http-8080-2] INFO perforce - Executing: C:\Program Files\Perforce counter change
156 [Handling GET /hudson/scm/PerforceSCM/checkChangeList : http-8080-3] INFO perforce - Executing: C:\Program Files\Perforce counter change
10186 [Handling GET /hudson/scm/PerforceSCM/validateP4Client : http-8080-3] INFO perforce - Executing: C:\Program Files\Perforce counter change
Problem: Could not run perforce command.
com.tek42.perforce.PerforceException: Could not run perforce command.
    at hudson.plugins.perforce.HudsonP4Executor.exec(HudsonP4Executor.java:83)
    at com.tek42.perforce.parse.AbstractPerforceTemplate.getPerforceResponse(AbstractPerforceTemplate.java:289)
    at com.tek42.perforce.parse.Workspaces.getWorkspace(Workspaces.java:53)
    at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.getPerforceWorkspace(PerforceSCM.java:835)
    at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.pollChanges(PerforceSCM.java:632)
    at hudson.scm.SCM.poll(SCM.java:370)
    at hudson.model.AbstractProject.poll(AbstractProject.java:1153)
    at hudson.triggers.SCMTrigger$Runner.runPolling(SCMTrigger.java:330)
    at hudson.triggers.SCMTrigger$Runner.run(SCMTrigger.java:359)
    at hudson.util.SequentialExecutionQueue$QueueEntry.run(SequentialExecutionQueue.java:118)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\Program Files\Perforce" (in directory "c:\src\hudson\jobs\PA_for_UC_9.0.0_Windows_Incremental\workspace"): CreateProcess error=5, Access is denied
    at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Unknown Source)
    at hudson.Proc$LocalProc.<init>(Proc.java:149)
    at hudson.Proc$LocalProc.<init>(Proc.java:121)
    at hudson.Launcher$LocalLauncher.launch(Launcher.java:633)
    at hudson.Launcher$ProcStarter.start(Launcher.java:268)
    at hudson.plugins.perforce.HudsonP4Executor.exec(HudsonP4Executor.java:74)
    ... 15 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=5, Access is denied
    at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(Unknown Source)
    ... 21 more
42057 [Handling GET /hudson/scm/PerforceSCM/validatePerforceLogin : http-8080-3] INFO perforce - Executing: C:\Program Files\Perforce counter change
43102 [Handling GET /hudson/scm/PerforceSCM/validatePerforceLogin : http-8080-3] INFO perforce - Executing: C:\Program Files\Perforce counter change
48328 [Handling GET /hudson/scm/PerforceSCM/validatePerforceLogin : http-8080-3] INFO perforce - Executing: C:\Program Files\Perforce counter change
48344 [Handling GET /hudson/scm/PerforceSCM/validatePerforceLogin : http-8080-3] INFO perforce - Executing: C:\Program Files\Perforce counter change
52603 [Handling GET /hudson/scm/PerforceSCM/checkChangeList : http-8080-3] INFO perforce - Executing: C:\Program Files\Perforce counter change
Could not get effective client name: null
Exception in thread "Executor #0 for Linux Build Machine" java.lang.NullPointerException
    at hudson.model.Computer.getNode(Computer.java:385)
    at hudson.slaves.SlaveComputer.getNode(SlaveComputer.java:138)
    at hudson.slaves.SlaveComputer.getRetentionStrategy(SlaveComputer.java:436)
    at hudson.slaves.SlaveComputer.taskCompletedWithProblems(SlaveComputer.java:238)
    at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:138)

The Perforce client works just fine when I revert the plug-in back to its previous version. Nothing has changed on the system during the upgrade other than the Perforce plug-in.

I am using Hudson version 1.352 on Windows 2008 R2, Tomcat 6.0.20, Perforce client is 2009.2, Perforce server is 2009.2.

Ideas?

Thanks,

John

Version 1.0.27 - (Apr 5, 2010) Adding the LineEnd field broke all my builds

It appears that it is now sending the LineEnd option whether it has been set or not. When it sends it without a valid value perforce returns an error and the build fails.

Please update to only send the LineEnd field if it has been set in hudson.

Also, it would be nice to set this globally, instead of having to define it in every job.

Thanks,

Steven

Anybody having any problems with this latest release on Hudson 1.355?  I like to upgrade to the Hudson pre release and the latest P4Plugin.  Running on Linux with no nodes.

A great addition would be to be able and name the workspace with a variable, for exmaple "hudson_$JOB_NAME"

What happens today is I am managing over 80 different perforce workspaces for our hudson instance, and when copying a job I need to "remember" to change the client name and unless I do so I corrupt two builds the new one and the old one with the same workspace name.

This also means I never have to configure the workspace name once I set this param - my build is good to go ...

I tried the following - which I presume isn't supported

I am creating a matrix project to compile on windows and ubuntu. How do I specify the p4 binary location?

I am developing a plugin that needs changelist number and the changelist owner but can't quite figure out how to get the last PerforceChangeLogEntry.  Could anyone help?

Nevermind.  I must have been blind.

Is there a way to get an email (or other alert trigger) when the Perforce Polling has failed? When someone changes the password, but forgets to update the P4PASSWD in Hudson, everything looks good on the surface, but no new builds are made since Hudson can't sync new source but it doesn't notify anyone that there is a problem.

---
[workspace] $ /usr/bin/p4 workspace -o hudson
[workspace] $ /usr/bin/p4 login -p
[workspace] $ /usr/bin/p4 login -p
Caught exception communicating with perforce. Login attempt failed: Password invalid.com.tek42.perforce.PerforceException: Login attempt failed: Password invalid.
at com.tek42.perforce.parse.AbstractPerforceTemplate.p4Login(AbstractPerforceTemplate.java:488)
at com.tek42.perforce.parse.AbstractPerforceTemplate.login(AbstractPerforceTemplate.java:430)
at com.tek42.perforce.parse.AbstractPerforceTemplate.getPerforceResponse(AbstractPerforceTemplate.java:329)
at com.tek42.perforce.parse.Workspaces.getWorkspace(Workspaces.java:53)
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.getPerforceWorkspace(PerforceSCM.java:951)
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.checkout(PerforceSCM.java:499)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1061)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.checkout(AbstractBuild.java:479)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:411)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1272)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:129)
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Has anyone seen the following behavior:  If I navigate into a job and click on "Recent Changes", some comments that were supplied in Perforce do not show up.  The changelist, author, date all show up fine.  I have checked the comments from the p4 command line to make sure the whitespace is correct; I have compared them to other comments that do show up and cannot find any kind of whitespace difference.  This particular project also generates a maven site, and in the maven site, the comments show up.  It appears to be isolated to one user, but does not always happen to that user.  I also tried a completely different browser after re-doing the whitespace to be sure that it wasn't a whitespace issue and that it wasn't cached in the browser...no change.  The comments were submitted via P4V, but so were the ones that show up for this user.  Most other users in our environment use either Eclipse or the command line client.  The comments are definitely there, as shown by running p4 changes from the command line as well as p4 change -o <specific changelist number> (and looking at them from P4V, too). 

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Are there any plans in future releases to allow the plugin to get the changes without having to sync?

We're starting to link change submissions to Perforce Jobs. I see the Job listed under "View Details" for the Hudson job. But if a change is linked to more than one Job, which Perforce allows, only one Job is displayed in the Hudson Job details. Some questions:

Has anyone seen this behavior?

Is there something I can do in our Hudson config to correct it?

Does anyone know if it's fixed in a specific version of the Perforce plugin?

Thanks!

Paul M.

I'd like to be able to use the Perforce label generated from this plugin as a parameter for a downstream job. Is this accessible as an environment variable I can pass to the downstream job?

Thanks,
Lester

I added a comment to http://issues.hudson-ci.org/browse/HUDSON-2678 which doesn't seem fixed.
I also added a description of how I'd like to use the poll/sync behavior. Is it so strange?

I would think a lot of people moving current build scripts to hudson would be starting in a similar situation (where the scripts are already perforce and changelist aware and base actions on their own results of doing these operations) and it's not that easy to extricate this from a pre-synced workspace. So I just want the plugin to track last successful CL and new CL and tell my script and a successbuild would update the last successful CL. But otherwise let the scripts do the syncing. It seems the options are there to do that (view mask with polling/syncing options) but it doesn't seem like the actual functionality matches what is described by these options.

I'm unable to use the labeling feature to create labels with underscores, ala mycode-mainline_LAST_SUCCESSFUL_BUILD:Failed to issue perforce label. Error in label specification. The Revision field can only be added to empty labels.
For Command: /tools/products/perforce/p4 -P XXXXXXXXXX -s label -i
With Data:
===================
Label: mycode-mainline_LAST_SUCCESSFUL_BUILD
Owner:
Description:
Label automatically generated by Hudson Perforce Plugin.
Revision: @855628
Options:
View:
//mydepot/mycode/mainline/...

===================
though I can create this same label from the P4V client and the Hudson Perforce plugin will create the label if I use the name mycode-mainline-LAST-SUCCESSFUL-BUILD (changing underscores to dashes). I've also noticed that the Perforce plguin will not accept dots either. Has anyone else seen this behavior?

Thanks!