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Allow linking to an external build system from Harbormaster
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I have Harbormaster set up to run builds on Circle CI (via excessive hacks), it'd be great to be able to click the build status link that shows on a Diff and get to the Circle CI build page.

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There is a URI artifact type, so if you're writing your own custom build step in PHP, you can create a URI artifact that points to the CircleCI plan:

https://secure.phabricator.com/diffusion/P/browse/master/src/applications/harbormaster/storage/build/HarbormasterBuildArtifact.php;189fb2660a905c7d683cc312af66ca2065bc51d5$16

Hi @nornagon -- would you be willing to post details of you have your "excessive hacks" configured? I would love to have a similar setup at my company.

@dpaola2 at this point I don't even remember all the things I had set up, but it involves this monstrosity running on heroku:

1var request = require('request');
2var express = require('express');
3var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
4var app = express();
5var createCanduit = require('canduit');
6
7app.set('port', (process.env.PORT || 5000));
8app.use(bodyParser.json())
9
10app.post('/build', function(req, res) {
11 var target_phid = req.query.target;
12 var diff_id = req.query.diff;
13 request.post({
14 url: 'https://circleci.com/api/v1/project/transcriptic/www/tree/circle',
15 qs: { "circle-token": process.env['CIRCLE_TOKEN'] },
16 json: true,
17 body: {
18 "build_parameters": {
19 "PHAB_DIFF_ID": diff_id,
20 "PHAB_TARGET_PHID": target_phid
21 }
22 }
23 }, function (err, res, body) {
24 console.log(err, body)
25 })
26 res.end();
27});
28
29app.post('/build-complete', function(req, res) {
30 var target_phid = req.body.payload.build_parameters['PHAB_TARGET_PHID'];
31 var outcome = req.body.payload.outcome
32
33 createCanduit({
34 api: "https://work.r23s.net/api/",
35 user: process.env['CONDUIT_USER'],
36 cert: process.env['CONDUIT_CERT'],
37 }, function(err, canduit) {
38 if (err) {
39 res.end();
40 return console.error("Error authenticating with conduit: %j", err);
41 }
42 canduit.exec('harbormaster.sendmessage', {
43 buildTargetPHID: target_phid,
44 type: (outcome == "success" ? "pass" : "fail"),
45 }, function(err, data) {
46 console.log("Called conduit", err, data)
47 res.end();
48 })
49 })
50})
51
52app.listen(app.get('port'), function() {
53 console.log('Node app is running on port', app.get('port'));
54});

epriestley triaged this task as Normal priority.Aug 10 2015, 2:41 PM
epriestley moved this task from Backlog to v2 on the Harbormaster board.

I'm going to wait until the Harbormaster doc gets split up a bit before writing details on how to use this, but here's the rough version.

After D13900 + D13903, you'll use harbormaster.createartifact(...) to publish a "uri" artifact as soon as your external build server (e.g., in Jenkins) receives a request and knows what the external build detail URI is. You'll use these parameters:

  • buildTargetPHID: The build target PHID from Phabricator, same value you're using with harbormaster.sendmessage.
  • artifactKey: Any unique name, like "jenkins.uri"
  • artifactType: The string literal "uri".
  • artifactData: A dictionary like this one:
{
  "uri": "http://your.build-server.com/build/details/12345232/",
  "name": "View Build Details in Jenkins",
  "ui.external": true
}

The ui.external key tells Harbormaster that this URI artifact is an external link which should be shown in the UI when build targets are rendered:

Screen Shot 2015-08-14 at 2.46.49 PM.png (158×579 px, 21 KB)

For example, this is a complete, valid call to add a link to Bing! to a build target:

$ echo '{
  "buildTargetPHID": "PHID-HMBT-bwxike43bzahut64duk5",
  "artifactKey": "link.bing",
  "artifactType": "uri",
  "artifactData": {
    "uri": "http://bing.com",
    "name": "Bing! It!",
    "ui.external": true
  }
}' | arc call-conduit --conduit-uri <your-phabricator-uri> --conduit-token <conduit-token> harbormaster.createartifact

The Conduit API page for the call (/conduit/method/harbormaster.createartifact/) is greatly expanded after those changes land, too.

Overall, your Jenkins thing will look something like:

// Publish the link to the external result page.
conduit.harbormaster.createartifact(...);

// Run the tests.
result = run_some_tests();

// Publish the test results.
conduit.harbormaster.sendmessage(result);

You can add several links if you want, they just each need to have unique keys (jenkins.detail-uri, jenkins.summary-uri). You should probably also give them unique names so humans can tell them apart.