[Anthill] RE: Build Errors Path Null
Eric Minick
eric at urbancode.com
Tue Jul 20 12:41:59 CDT 2004
Jeremy,
I agree that the documentation is in need of work. We are redoing the
docs for the professional version now and I think OS will get the
treatment next.
I'll try to go one step at a time. The reason Anthill uses its own
working directory goes to the core of what it tries to accomplish.
The idea is that developers tend to have fairly customized environments.
They'll make something work on their machine, commit it and go home.
Unfortunately, the build only worked because the had some jar file on
some path they set up in desperation two weeks ago. Now the build is
broken for everyone else.
Enter Anthill. Anthill resides on a plain old vanilla server isolated
from us pesky developers and our specialized environments. It checks out
the code, compiles it and then puts the results in a predictable place.
These artifacts can then be tested furhter, deployed, etc. It should be
self contained. It works on the files in its own space, and lets
everyone know if the builds are going well or not.
I guess the question is why it matters where Anthill does its builds?
The developers should still have their spaces and I'd imagine a space
could be setup for WebLogic as well. Is the trick trying to get
automatic deployments to work?
Best Regards,
Eric
Whitlock, Jeremy x66075 wrote:
>Eric,
> That's just how PVCS is setup right now and it would be hard for me
>to push this by the uppers if we are required to have a "proprietary"
>directory structure just to suit the Continuous Integration System. We are
>already having to make our directory structure BEA WebLogic compliant and we
>were unable to pursue Maven due to this setup as well. To make AntHill
>work, what do I have to do? I want to evaluate AntHill and I don't know
>that the install document explains this or hopefully AntHill would already
>be running. (That is assuming I have anything close to a brain!) I need
>your help to explain what I need to do, and why if you have time, so that I
>can get AntHill up and running. Thanks for your assistance and if you don't
>have the time or the want to help, I'd understand as we are all busy people.
>Thanks, Jeremy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Minick [mailto:eric at urbancode.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 6:49 AM
>To: Anthill user list
>Subject: Re: [Anthill] RE: Build Errors Path Null
>
>Jeremy,
>
>I'm not sure how to do that. Can I ask why you need it checked out there?
>
>Eric
>
>Whitlock, Jeremy x66075 wrote:
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>
>
>>Eric,
>> I need the project checked out to:
>>
>>D:\Develop\posse_jvm_4_11_1
>>
>>How would I make changes to suit? Thanks, Jeremy
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Eric Minick [mailto:eric at urbancode.com]
>>Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 1:09 PM
>>To: Anthill user list
>>Subject: Re: [Anthill] RE: Build Errors Path Null
>>
>>Jeremy,
>>
>>I may have found the issue. The repository.pvcs.work.dir property needs
>>to be a relative path to the AnthillPro base directory. In all
>>likelyhood, it is just going to be "work". This is where the driver will
>>check your project out to and do the build.
>>
>>Give it a shot with the simpler version.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Eric
>>
>>Whitlock, Jeremy x66075 wrote:
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>>>Eric,
>>> I'm not using Tomcat. I'm using WebLogic 8.1 SP 2. They do have
>>>access to the R drive. It can be accessed from command line and I've
>>>verified that its existence is valid. Thanks, Jeremy
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Eric Minick [mailto:eric at urbancode.com]
>>>Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 10:31 AM
>>>To: Anthill user list
>>>Subject: Re: [Anthill] RE: Build Errors Path Null
>>>
>>>Jeremy,
>>>
>>>What user is Tomcat running as? Do they have an R drive?
>>>
>>>-- Eric
>>>
>>>Whitlock, Jeremy x66075 wrote:
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>AntHill-Users,
>>>>
>>>>Does anyone see anything wrong? To clarify some information, here are
>>>>my absolute paths:
>>>>
>>>>AntHill - D:\AntHill
>>>>
>>>>PVCS Working Directory - D:\Develop\posse_jvm_4_11_1 (In the original
>>>>this was wrong but fixing it didn't alleviate the problem)
>>>>
>>>>PVCS Database Directory - R:\posse_jvm_4_11_1\pvcs
>>>>
>>>>PVCS Version Label - POSSE 4.11.1
>>>>
>>>>PVCS Proect Name - POSSE JVM 4.11.1
>>>>
>>>>These have all been verified and are correct but I still get the null
>>>>path error. I'm going to debug AntHill to see why but if anyone has
>>>>any ideas, please let me know. Otherwise, I will post with more
>>>>results later. Thanks, Jeremy
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>*From:* Whitlock, Jeremy x66075
>>>>*Sent:* Friday, July 16, 2004 4:27 PM
>>>>*To:* AntHill (E-mail)
>>>>*Subject:* Build Errors Path Null
>>>>
>>>>AntHill-Users,
>>>>
>>>>I finally figured out how to set the paths for my project. I set them
>>>>up like this:
>>>>
>>>>#
>>>>
>>>># Defines the configuration parameters for the pvcsRepositoryAdapter
>>>>
>>>>#
>>>>
>>>>param.name.1=repository.pvcs.work.dir
>>>>
>>>>param.desc.1=The name of the directory to which pvcs will checkout the
>>>>project. This should be a relative path and it will be relative to
>>>>anthill's home directory.
>>>>
>>>>param.default.1=D:\posse_jvm_4_11_1
>>>>
>>>>param.name.2=repository.pvcs.projectDir
>>>>
>>>>param.desc.2=The full path to the directory that stores the project
>>>>database.
>>>>
>>>>param.default.2=R:\posse_jvm_4_11_1\pvcs
>>>>
>>>>param.name.3=repository.pvcs.project
>>>>
>>>>param.desc.3=This is the project name.
>>>>
>>>>param.default.3=POSSE JVM 4.11.1
>>>>
>>>>param.name.4=repository.pvcs.archiveDir
>>>>
>>>>param.desc.4=The absolute directory to where the archive for the
>>>>project is located.
>>>>
>>>>param.default.4=R:\posse_jvm_4_11_1
>>>>
>>>>param.name.5=repository.pvcs.branch
>>>>
>>>>param.desc.5=The name of the pvcs branch that Anthill is to build.
>>>>(Most of the time this will be blank.) And this can be repetitive if
>>>>the branch name is also the module name. But this isn't always the
>>>>case. This parameter will be part of the local project directory on
>>>>your local system. The module name is solely used for accessing pvcs's
>>>>depot.
>>>>
>>>>param.default.5=POSSE 4.11.1
>>>>
>>>>param.name.6=repository.pvcs.dateFormat
>>>>
>>>>param.desc.6=The date format to be used for PVCS history command
>>>>
>>>>param.default.6=MMM dd yyyy HH:mm:ss
>>>>
>>>>And I get this:
>>>>
>>>>Anthill: looking for file: C:\Documents and
>>>>Settings\jwhitlock\.anthill.anthill.properties
>>>>
>>>>Anthill version: 1.7.0.162 loaded.
>>>>
>>>>Anthill root dir: D:\AntHill
>>>>
>>>>16:24:59:119 [ExecuteThread: '24' for queue: 'default'] INFO
>>>>com.urbancode.anthill.Anthill - Starting Anthill daemons
>>>>
>>>>16:25:04:041 [Thread - AnthillBuildDaemon] INFO
>>>>com.urbancode.anthill.adapter.PVCSRepositoryAdapter - Revision log
>>>>date format: MMM dd yyyy HH:mm:ss
>>>>
>>>>com.urbancode.anthill.adapter.RepositoryException: Path parameter must
>>>>not be null.
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>>>>16:25:04:088 [Thread - AnthillBuildDaemon] ERROR
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>>>>com.urbancode.anthill.adapter.PVCSRepos
>>>>
>>>>itoryAdapter instance: Path parameter must not be null.
>>>>
>>>>java.lang.IllegalStateException: exception while getting
>>>>com.urbancode.anthill.adapter.PVCSRepositoryAdapter instance: Path
>>>>parameter must not be null
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>>>>
>>>>Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Jeremy
>>>>
>>>>
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