[Anthill-pro] Best way to implement this?

[Eric Minick]

Why not a single "Restart the app servers" project that contains a
seperate originating workflow per environment - all calling the same
job?

-- Eric

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:54 AM, emerson cargnin
<echofloripa.yell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to implement a workflow that will stop and restart our webserver (resin)
>
> At this moment I have it as part of the deployment workflow, so that
> it stop before the deployment and starts afterwards.
>
> Now I need to have it also separated so that support could
> start/stop/restart resin directly without deploying anything.
>
> This should be a originating workflow as it doesn't depend on any
> artifact, it just connects to the agent and restarts resin.
>
> The thing is that as an originating workflow can't run in multiple
> environments, just one.
>
> It would be interesting to have the possibility to run a secondary
> workflow without a primary one in special cases like this.
>
> So I thought in having a step in my originating workflow that would
> call a script that would get the secondary workflow, get the
> environment property and set as the server group of my secondary
> workflow, and then run it for the current buildlife.
>
> I researched and i found how to get the secondary workflow and set the
> environment:
> -----------------------------------------------
>  Workflow resinStart =
> WorkflowLookup.getForProjectAndName(ProjectLookup.getCurrent(),"resinStart");
>    String env = PropertyLookup.getValue("environment");
>    EnvironmentGroup envGroup =
> EnvironmentGroupFactory.getInstance().restoreForName("Default
> Environment Group");
>    ServerGroup[] serverGroups = envGroup.getServerGroupArray();
>    for (int sg=0; sg<serverGroups.length; sg++) {
>       if (env.equals(serverGroups[sg].getName())){
>         resinStart.addServerGroup(serverGroups[sg]);
>         break;
>       }
>    }
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> But I think that what I really need is to get the current BuildLife
> and execute a secondary workflow on it. I then get:
>
> BuildLife buildLife = BuildLifeLookup.getCurrent();
>
>
> I will probably have to mix the first script with the current build
> life, but I can't find how. Could someone give me a hint on this?
>
> Thank you
> Emerson
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