[Anthill-pro] Accessing properties inside shell builder

[Prashant Prabhudesai (pprabhud)]

> So the shell builder step itself need only reference the build request
property

How do I access the build request property inside the shell builder.

Thanks,
Prashant.


> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Anderson, Eric
> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 2:08 PM
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> Subject: RE: [Anthill-pro] Accessing properties inside shell builder
> 
> Another way that we have done this while using one shell builder step
is to have an evaluate script
> step that will set a build request property, the value of which is
based upon the agent's operating
> system.
> 
> We obtain the agent's operating system with:
> 
> AgentVarHelper.getCurrentAgentVar("sys/os.name");
> 
> The build request property is set with:
> 
> PropertyLookup.set(String key, String value)
> 
> Where the value is determined based on the os.name value retrieved
above.
> 
> So the shell builder step itself need only reference the build request
property, which is already set
> to the correct value for the agent's operating system.
> 
> Eric
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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[mailto:anthill-pro-bounces at lists.urbancode.com] On
> Behalf Of Ryan Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 1:49 PM
> To: anthill-pro at lists.urbancode.com
> Subject: Re: [Anthill-pro] Accessing properties inside shell builder
> 
> One way to do this would be to write two separate shell steps and use
> step pre-condition that run or do not run the step based on the
property.
> 
> Ryan
> 
> On 2/3/10 2:40 PM, Prashant Prabhudesai (pprabhud) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there a way I can do different things based on a property inside
a
> > shell builder. I want to execute a different command based on a
> > property's value.
> >
> >
> >
> > For example, I have 2 build objects that I am compressing using a
shell
> > builder. One is for a Windows platform and the other is for a Linux
> > platform. I want to use WinZip to compress the Windows one and gzip
to
> > compress the Linux one. I am running this as an iteration and have a
> > property set for each of the iterations to identify the build object
in
> > question. How can I switch using this property between WinZip and
gzip
> > inside the shell builder.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
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