XWiki's Continuous Build

Version 13.1 by Vincent Massol on 2011/05/09 11:30

General

XWiki has a Continuous Integration setup to ensure XWiki's code is built at all times (i.e at every code check in). This also allows developers to only build the module they want and they'll have the other XWiki module dependencies downloaded from the XWiki remote repository.

xwikibuildprocess.png

We use the following tools:

We use a technique called binary dependency build which allows to check out only the module a developer wishes to work on and he'll automatically get the latest fresh binary dependencies built by our CI tool.

Maintainer's guide

Prerequisites

  • You need to have an account on maven.xwiki.org (this is the machine hosting XWiki's remote repository) and you'll need a key setup on your account there so that you can ssh to it without having to enter username or password (See the XWPLT project in JIRA).
  • You need to have an administrator account on ci.xwiki.org.

Functional tests

General

  • If your project includes functional tests don't check "Run Xvnc during build" in the project configuration, we have a XVNC server always running on the machine and jenkins is aware of it (DISPLAY :1.0).

Debugging

Connect to the XVNC server

  • Establish a SSH tunnel between your computer and the server on port 5901 (ssh -L 5901:localhost:5901 [email protected])
  • Use your favorite VNC client to connect to the XVNC server
    • Host : localhost
    • Display : 1
    • Password : same password as for XWiki SAS wifi access points
  • See the functional tests live.

Wysiwyg functional tests

GWT seems to have an unusual way to manage input events, our WYSIWYG editor needs its container window to have a _real_ focus (Windowing System level) to catch them (at least on Linux and OSX). Wysiwyg functional tests execute a small C program, the compiled program must be available at /home/maven/xwindowfocus on the continuous build server.

Source : main.c

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#include       <sys/types.h>
#include       <stdio.h>
#include       <stdlib.h>
#include       <string.h>
#include       <stdarg.h>

#include       <X11/X.h>
#include       <X11/Xlib.h>
#include       <X11/Xutil.h>

int            XWindowFocus(Display *display, char *window_name)
{
 Window       root
 Window       query_root, query_parent;
 Window       *children_windows;
 char         *win_name;
 unsigned int children_nb;
 int          match, i;

 root = DefaultRootWindow(display);
 // Retrieve all windows
 XQueryTree(display, root, &query_root, &query_parent, &children_windows, &children_nb);
 // Loop over windows
 for (i = 0, match = 1; i < children_nb; i++) 
    {
     XFetchName(display, children_windows[i], &win_name);
     // Match window name
     if (!strcmp(win_name, window_name))
{
         // Set X focus on the matching window
 XSetInputFocus(display, children_windows[i], RevertToNone, CurrentTime);
 printf("Focus set on window \"%s\"\n", win_name);
 match = 0;
}
     XFree(win_name);
    }
 XFree(children_windows);

 return match;
}

int            main(int ac, char **av)
{
 Display      *display = XOpenDisplay(NULL);
 int          ret;

 // Check arguments
 if (ac < 2)
    {
     fprintf(stderr, "Usage : xwindowfocus <window_name>\n");
     exit(1);
    }
   
 // Verify DISPLAY
 if (display == NULL)
    {
     fprintf(stderr, "Error : failed to open DISPLAY\n");
     exit(1);
    }

 ret = XWindowFocus(display, av[1]);


 if (ret == 1)
    {
     fprintf(stderr, "Error : failed to find window\n");
    }

 exit(ret);
}

Jenkins jamming up

Occasionally (especially under high load) Jenkins will have an SCM polling thread jam up due to JENKINS-5413. This will prevent any further builds but it can be remedied by running the following script on the master's script console.

int i = 0;
Thread.getAllStackTraces().keySet().each(){ item ->
 if( item.getName().contains("SCM polling") &&
     item.getName().contains("waiting for hudson.remoting")){
    println("THREAD: " + item);
    item.interrupt();
    i++
  }
}
println("count = " + i);
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