Get a list of VCS modifications between two builds

Created October 20, 2015 08:09

I have two builds (instances of SFinishedBuild), both of the same build configuration. How do I get the list of VCS modifications (SVcsModification) between them?

I need this for my culprit-finding plug-in. The user selects an arbitrary pair of finished builds and reruns the builds for every intermediate change. Example:

there are changes a, b, c, d, e, f
change b gets built in build B
change c gets built in build C
change e gets built in build E
I need a way to find changes between B and E (= c, d, e)

Something like [E].getContainingChanges(), but relative to an arbitrary historical build (B).

2 comments

Yegor Yarko

Created October 20, 2015 13:16

There is no single method to do that, but you can interate previous builds using the call:

SBuild.getBuildPromotion().getPreviousBuildPromotion(SelectPrevBuildPolicy.SINCE_LAST_BUILD)

and get chanegs from each via getContainingChanges.

QA Platform

Created October 20, 2015 14:13

Thank you, that's great.

Somewhat related, if I come across an SFinishedBuild with .getContainingChanges().isEmpty() (which is typical of reruns), can I use the same trick to get at the SVcsModification that applies to this finished build?

Example:

there are changes a, b, c
change b gets built in build B
change c gets built in build C and then D
[D].getContainingChanges() is empty because D is a rerun

If I want to get hold of the last SVcsModification of D, can I use [D].getBuildPromotion().getPreviousBuildPromotion(SelectPrevBuildPolicy.SINCE_LAST_BUILD).getContainingChanges().get(0)?

And does the trick work well with feature branches?

Thanks,
Sam

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