Plugin Agent/Sever Communication - Unidirectional

Hi, you can register custom a controller (https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/TCD10/Web+UI+Extensions#WebUIExtensions-DevelopingaCustomController) that will provide the necessary data by HTTP. Then call the controller from the agent.  

We've already got a controller configured. How do you call it from agent side though?

Just send ordinary http requests using HttpClient instance obtained from the HttpUtil class.

I am getting error with 401 http status code. I added the my code below.  I require credentials which I don't know how to obtain. Do you have any idea. By the way thank your for support.

import jetbrains.buildServer.http.HttpUtil;

HttpClient httpClient = HttpUtil.createHttpClient(60);
PostMethod httpPost = new PostMethod(scanDataControllerURI.toString());
HttpClientParams httpClientParams = new HttpClientParams();
httpClientParams.setParameter(Scan_Task_ID_Literal, ScanTaskID);
httpClientParams.setParameter(BuildID_Literal, BuildID);
httpClientParams.setParameter(Message_Literal, Message);
httpClientParams.setParameter(Data_Literal, Data);
httpClientParams.setParameter(Is_Error_Literal, IsError);
httpClientParams.setParameter(HTTP_Status_Code_Literal, HTTPStatusCode);
httpClient.setParams(httpClientParams);

You are getting 401 response because the Controller requires authorization.

If the Controller doesn't provide any secured data then you can omit the authentication using the following method:

jetbrains.buildServer.controllers.AuthorizationInterceptor#addPathNotRequiringAuth

Another way is to add some user credentials to the request, it depends on the controller logic. Could you share what is the controller responsible for?

Thank you for your response.

Controller will store scanresult data for viewlogtab by storing data to customdatastore. How can i find userid and password for basic form authentication.

//code form my controller.

Map<String, String> parameters = getParameters(httpServletRequest);
ScanRequestResult scanRequestResult = new ScanRequestResult(parameters);
//todo: test persistence with restarting server.
DataStorage storage=new DataStorage(server);
//Stores scanRequestResult for ScanLogTab. Now scan log tab can access scan report
storage.StoreScanRequestResult(scanRequestResult);
ScanRequestResult validationMap = storage.GetScanRequestResult(scanRequestResult.BuildID);

//code from DataStorage

public DataStorage(SBuildServer server) {
   this.server = server;
}

public void StoreScanRequestResult(ScanRequestResult scanRequestResult) {
   final SBuild build = server.findBuildInstanceById(scanRequestResult.BuildID);
   SBuildType buildType = build.getBuildType();
   CustomDataStorage scanRequestStorage = buildType.getCustomDataStorage(ScanRequestStoragePrefix + scanRequestResult.BuildID);
   scanRequestStorage.putValues(scanRequestResult.Parameters);
   scanRequestStorage.flush();
   scanRequestStorage.dispose();
}

public ScanRequestResult GetScanRequestResult(long buildID) {
   final SBuild build = server.findBuildInstanceById(buildID);
   SBuildType buildType = build.getBuildType();
   CustomDataStorage scanRequestStorage = buildType.getCustomDataStorage(ScanRequestStoragePrefix + buildID);
   ScanRequestResult scanRequestResult=new ScanRequestResult(scanRequestStorage.getValues());
   scanRequestStorage.dispose();
   return scanRequestResult;
}

Hi, 

you can create a special user with administration permissions for the build configuration and use his credentials for the Basic authentication. But please note that in this case credentials can be become publicly visible.