I have a ugly Teamcity build configuration using MSBuild. It executes custom application (test runner), which is using custom messaging to report test results to teamcity.
##teamcity[testStarted name='test1']
##teamcity[testFailed name='test1' message='failure message' details='message and stack trace']
Which show in teamcity in build overview and tests tab.
Teamcity recognizes failed tests and if any test fails, it marks the build as failed:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/Qz9UT.png
Later in the MSBuild target I would like to label cvs based on the test results.
Is there a way to get the build status (if it is failed, hanging, warning) as a property? something like %build.status%? The format does not matter - if its a string or number.
PS: I know that best solution to my problem would be to modify the application to return non-zero exit code if test fail.
TeamCty does not seem to expose this directly, but the status can be acquired using the REST api. Here is an example using curl; but you could also uwe PowserShell's Invoke-RestMethod for instance.
Here's the msbuild script that casues test failure I used for testing:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<Target Name="Test">
<Message Importance="high" Text="##teamcity[testStarted name='test1']" />
<Message Importance="high" Text="##teamcity[testFailed name='test1' message='failure message' details='message and stack trace']" />
</Target>
</Project>
Then the script that gets the current build's status, dumps it to a file, reads the file into an msbuild item and then uses regex to get the status out of it. You just have it to supply the tc_user and tc_password properties (or allow guest access) and change the url to match your server.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" DefaultTargets="GetBuildStatus">
<Target Name="RunCurl">
<PropertyGroup>
<MyTempFile>curl_out</MyTempFile>
</PropertyGroup>
<Exec Command="curl http://localhost/httpAuth/app/rest/builds/id:$(teamcity_build_id) -basic -u $(tc_user):$(tc_password) > $(MyTempFile)"/>
<ReadLinesFromFile File="$(MyTempFile)">
<Output TaskParameter="Lines" ItemName="CurlOutput"/>
</ReadLinesFromFile>
<Delete Files="$(MyTempFile)"/>
</Target>
<Target Name="GetBuildStatus" DependsOnTargets="RunCurl">
<PropertyGroup>
<CurlOutputFull>#(CurlOutput)</CurlOutputFull>
<BuildStatus>$([System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex]::Match($(CurlOutputFull), `status="(\w*)"`).Groups[ 1 ].Value)</BuildStatus>
</PropertyGroup>
<Message Text="BuildStatus = $(BuildStatus)"/>
</Target>
</Project>
This prints:
BuildStatus = FAILURE
I have the following
<RegexMatch Input="$(Configuration)" Expression="^.*?(?=\.)">
<Output ItemName="Theme" TaskParameter="Output" />
</RegexMatch>
My configuration variable is as follows Theme.Environment
So "Default.Debug"
or "Yellow.Release"
I would like to get the first portion in to a varaible called theme.
I have tested this regex and it works in stand alone regex testers
^.*?(?=\.)
but not when used in my build file.
I am echoing the variable out so that i can see the output
<Exec Command="echo $(Theme)"/>
<Exec Command="echo $(Configuration)"/>
Ideas?
If you should use MSBuild Community tasks for that - check this line: <Output PropertyName="Theme" TaskParameter="Output" />
you should use PropertyName="Theme" if you want to refer it like $(Theme) later.
ItemName will create items set, not property.
But it's much simplier to use MSBuild 4.0 inline functions than Msbuild community tasks for that concrete task. Your code will looks like this (adopt for your script):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" ToolsVersion="4.0" DefaultTarget="Play">
<PropertyGroup>
<Configuration>Yellow.Release</Configuration>
</PropertyGroup>
<Target Name="Play">
<PropertyGroup>
<Theme>$([System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex]::Match($(Configuration), `^.*?(?=\.)`))</Theme>
</PropertyGroup>
<Message Text="$(Theme)" />
<Message Text="$(Configuration)" />
</Target>
</Project>
Just realised that RegexMatch doenst return the matched string but rather returns the entire string if matched.
basically it called IsMatch method not Match method
Have re written as a RegexReplace
<RegexReplace Input="$(Configuration)" Expression="\..*" Replacement="" Count="1">
<Output ItemName="Theme" TaskParameter="Output" />
</RegexReplace>
After that it still wasnt working and then i realised i was doing
$(Theme)
Should have been
#(Theme)
my current code(build.xml) enables me to send email on successful build, but when failed, nothing happens. The targets are called from a build.bat file through command similar to " ........ -DrepositoryAddress=%1 -DbuildResultUUID=%2 startPublish " (for all targets, in order startActivity->startPublish->mailer->startActivity).
Now, I also want email notification when the build fails.I guess trycatch will help me get the task done, but HOW? Not sure about it, where/how to place it(edit it?)? I kind of used trycatch, it gave me something like " Problem: failed to create task or type trycatch" . What modifications are required in current script/xml file to enable this functionality of sending email indicating status of build (successful or failed). Please guide/help.Thanks so much.
'
<target name="startActivity">
<fail message="Missing repositoryAddress" unless="repositoryAddress"/>
<fail message="Missing buildResultUUID" unless="buildResultUUID"/>
<fail message="Missing activityLabel" unless="activityLabel"/>
<!-- Replace ADMIN with your real credentials. -->
<startBuildActivity
buildResultUUID="${buildResultUUID}"
label="${activityLabel}"
autoComplete="true"
repositoryAddress="${repositoryAddress}"
userId="BuildAdmin"
password="Abc1234"/>
</target>
<target name="startPublish">
<sleep seconds="10"/>
<fail message="Missing repositoryAddress" unless="repositoryAddress"/>
<fail message="Missing buildResultUUID" unless="buildResultUUID"/>
<artifactfilePublisher repositoryAddress="${repositoryAddress}"
userId="BuildAdmin"
password="Abc1234"
buildResultUUID="${buildResultUUID}"
filePath="E:\Setup.msi"
label="Installer" />
</target>
<target name="mailer">
<property name="report" value="E:\Report.html"/>
<mail from="dmin#company.com" messagemimetype="text/html" charset="ISO-7779-1" messagefile="${report}" mailhost="HMMMM.company.com" mailport="25" tolist="admin#company.com" subject="Build status" />
</target>
<taskdef name="startBuildActivity"
classname="com.ibm.team.build.ant.task.StartBuildActivityTask" />
<taskdef name="artifactfilePublisher"
classname="com.ibm.team.build.ant.task.ArtifactFilePublisherTask" />
</project>'
you can implement a BuildListener that sends the email as described in the ant FAQ
Can someone please tell me why my build script (nant) doesn't display the unit test details in the command prompt window? I have verbose set to true, but it doesn't want to display any details about my unit tests. Here's the target:
<target name="run-unit-tests" depends="compile, move.assemblies.for.tests, rebuildDatabase">
<mkdir dir="${tests.output.dir}" />
<nunit2 haltonfailure="true" failonerror="true" verbose="true">
<formatter type="Xml" extension=".xml" outputdir="${tests.output.dir}" usefile="true" />
<test assemblyname="${test.assembly.file}" />
</nunit2>
<echo message="Unit Testing Done!" />
</target>
The command prompt window just displays this:
[mkdir] Creating directory 'C:\Projects\TestProject\build\artifacts\UnitTestOutput'.
[echo] Unit Testing Done!
build:
BUILD SUCCEEDED
Am I missing something here?
Thanks!
I found the answer. I looked at the source for CodeCampServer and saw a line
<formatter type="Plain" />
and added it to my build script so it looks like this:
<nunit2 haltonfailure="true" failonerror="true" verbose="true">
<formatter type="Xml" extension=".xml" outputdir="${tests.output.dir}" usefile="true" />
<formatter type="Plain" />
<test assemblyname="${test.assembly.file}" />
</nunit2>
and now it displays the details.
Sorry to ask the question prematurely on here, but at least it might help someone in the future if they have a similar problem.
Is there a log file in ${tests.output.dir} ? If so, what if you set usefile to false and type to "Plain"?
I decided to use log4net as a logger for a new webservice project. Everything is working fine, but I get a lot of messages like the one below, for every log4net tag I am using in my web.config:
Could not find schema information for
the element 'log4net'...
Below are the relevant parts of my web.config:
<configSections>
<section name="log4net"
type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" />
</configSections>
<log4net>
<appender name="RollingFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
<file value="C:\log.txt" />
<appendToFile value="true" />
<rollingStyle value="Size" />
<maxSizeRollBackups value="10" />
<maximumFileSize value="100KB" />
<staticLogFileName value="true" />
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %-5level: %message%newline" />
</layout>
</appender>
<logger name="TIMServerLog">
<level value="DEBUG" />
<appender-ref ref="RollingFileAppender" />
</logger>
</log4net>
Solved:
Copy every log4net specific tag to a separate xml-file. Make sure to use .xml as file extension.
Add the following line to AssemblyInfo.cs:
[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "xmlFile.xml", Watch = true)]
nemo added:
Just a word of warning to anyone
follow the advice of the answers in
this thread. There is a possible
security risk by having the log4net
configuration in an xml off the root
of the web service, as it will be
accessible to anyone by default. Just
be advised if your configuration
contains sensitive data, you may want
to put it else where.
#wcm: I tried using a separate file. I added the following line to AssemblyInfo.cs
[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "log4net.config", Watch = true)]
and put everything dealing with log4net in that file, but I still get the same messages.
You can bind in a schema to the log4net element. There are a few floating around, most do not fully provide for the various options available. I created the following xsd to provide as much verification as possible:
http://csharptest.net/downloads/schema/log4net.xsd
You can bind it into the xml easily by modifying the log4net element:
<log4net
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://csharptest.net/downloads/schema/log4net.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
I had a different take, and needed the following syntax:
[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "log4net.xml", Watch = true)]
which differs from xsl's last post, but made a difference for me. Check out this blog post, it helped me out.
Just a word of warning to anyone follow the advice of the answers in this thread. There is a possible security risk by having the log4net configuration in an xml off the root of the web service, as it will be accessible to anyone by default. Just be advised if your configuration contains sensitive data, you may want to put it else where.
I believe you are seeing the message because Visual Studio doesn't know how to validate the log4net section of the config file. You should be able to fix this by copying the log4net XSD into C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\XML\Schemas (or wherever your Visual Studio is installed). As an added bonus you should now get intellisense support for log4net
In Roger's answer, where he provided a schema, this worked very well for me except where a commenter mentioned
This XSD is complaining about the use of custom appenders. It only allows for an appender from the default set (defined as an enum) instead of simply making this a string field
I modified the original schema which had a xs:simpletype named log4netAppenderTypes and removed the enumerations. I instead restricted it to a basic .NET typing pattern (I say basic because it just supports typename only, or typename, assembly -- however someone can extend it.
Simply replace the log4netAppenderTypes definition with the following in the XSD:
<xs:simpleType name="log4netAppenderTypes">
<xs:restriction base="xs:string">
<xs:pattern value="[A-Za-z_]\w*(\.[A-Za-z_]\w*)+(\s*,\s*[A-Za-z_]\w*(\.[A-Za-z_]\w*)+)?"/>
</xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>
I'm passing this back on to the original author if he wants to include it in his official version. Until then you'd have to download and modify the xsd and reference it in a relative manner, for example:
<log4net
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../Dependencies/log4net/log4net.xsd">
<!-- ... -->
</log4net>
Actually you don't need to stick to the .xml extension. You can specify any other extension in the ConfigFileExtension attribute:
[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "log4net.config", ConfigFileExtension=".config", Watch = true)]
#steve_mtl: Changing the file extensions from .config to .xml solved the problem. Thank you.
#Wheelie: I couldn't try your suggestion, because I needed a solution which works with an unmodified Visual Studio installation.
To sum it up, here is how to solve the problem:
Copy every log4net specific tag to a separate xml-file. Make sure to use .xml as file extension.
Add the following line to AssemblyInfo.cs:
[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "xmlFile.xml", Watch = true)]
For VS2008 just add the log4net.xsd file to your project; VS looks in the project folder as well as the installation directory that Wheelie mentioned.
Also, using a .config extension instead of .xml avoids the security issue since IIS doesn't serve *.config files by default.
Have you tried using a separate log4net.config file?
I got a test asp project to build by puting the xsd file in the visual studio schemas folder as described above (for me it is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\XML\Schemas) and then making my web.config look like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
Note: As an alternative to hand editing this file you can use the
web admin tool to configure settings for your application. Use
the Website->Asp.Net Configuration option in Visual Studio.
A full list of settings and comments can be found in
machine.config.comments usually located in
\Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.x\Config
-->
<configuration>
<configSections>
<section name="log4net"
type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net"/>
</configSections>
<appSettings>
</appSettings>
<connectionStrings>
</connectionStrings>
<system.web>
<trace enabled="true" pageOutput="true" />
<!--
Set compilation debug="true" to insert debugging
symbols into the compiled page. Because this
affects performance, set this value to true only
during development.
-->
<compilation debug="true" />
<!--
The <authentication> section enables configuration
of the security authentication mode used by
ASP.NET to identify an incoming user.
-->
<authentication mode="Windows" />
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
<!--
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
The <customErrors> section enables configuration
of what to do if/when an unhandled error occurs
during the execution of a request. Specifically,
it enables developers to configure html error pages
to be displayed in place of a error stack trace.
<customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="GenericErrorPage.htm">
<error statusCode="403" redirect="NoAccess.htm" />
<error statusCode="404" redirect="FileNotFound.htm" />
</customErrors>
-->
</system.web>
<log4net xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://csharptest.net/downloads/schema/log4net.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<appender name="LogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender">
<!-- Please make shure the ..\\Logs directory exists! -->
<param name="File" value="Logs\\Log4Net.log"/>
<!--<param name="AppendToFile" value="true"/>-->
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d [%t] %-5p %c %m%n"/>
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="SmtpAppender" type="log4net.Appender.SmtpAppender">
<to value="" />
<from value="" />
<subject value="" />
<smtpHost value="" />
<bufferSize value="512" />
<lossy value="true" />
<evaluator type="log4net.Core.LevelEvaluator">
<threshold value="WARN"/>
</evaluator>
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<conversionPattern value="%newline%date [%thread] %-5level %logger [%property] - %message%newline%newline%newline" />
</layout>
</appender>
<logger name="File">
<level value="ALL" />
<appender-ref ref="LogFileAppender" />
</logger>
<logger name="EmailLog">
<level value="ALL" />
<appender-ref ref="SmtpAppender" />
</logger>
</log4net>
</configuration>
Without modifying your Visual Studio installation, and to take into account proper versioning/etc. amongst the rest of your team, add the .xsd file to your solution (as a 'Solution Item'), or if you only want it for a particular project, just embed it there.
I noticed it a bit late, but if you look into the examples log4net furnishes you can see them put all of the configuration data into an app.config, with one difference, the registration of configsection:
<!-- Register a section handler for the log4net section -->
<configSections>
<section name="log4net" type="System.Configuration.IgnoreSectionHandler" />
</configSections>
Could the definition it as type "System.Configuration.IgnoreSectionHandler" be the reason Visual Studio does not show any warning/error messages on the log4net stuff?
I followed Kit's answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/11780781/6139051 and it didn't worked for AppenderType values like "log4net.Appender.TraceAppender, log4net". The log4net.dll assembly has the AssemblyTitle of "log4net", i.e. the assembly name does not have a dot inside, that was why the regex in Kit's answer didn't work. I has to add the question mark after the third parenthetical group in the regexp, and after that it worked flawlessly.
The modified regex looks like the following:
<xs:pattern value="[A-Za-z_]\w*(\.[A-Za-z_]\w*)+(\s*,\s*[A-Za-z_]\w*(\.[A-Za-z_]\w*)?+)?"/>