Hi,

I need the ability to e-mail arbitrary users on a per project basis of the results of a job. The way I figured to do that was to add a pass and fail chain to any project that I needed such a "trigger".

This almost worked, except the meta-data about things like the build UUID (BID) of the calling project was not found in the chained project. In fact, the chained project showed weird BF_CALLER recursion that has some, but not all of the meta-data:

114	10/13/10 11:29AM	ENV	BF_CALLER_CALLER_LASTRUN=2010-10-13 11:27:48

115	10/13/10 11:29AM	ENV	BF_CALLER_CALLER_PROJECTNAME=MY_PROJECT

116	10/13/10 11:29AM	ENV	BF_CALLER_CALLER_RESULT=P

117	10/13/10 11:29AM	ENV	BF_CALLER_CALLER_SELECTOR=6be619cb0c4e1000e4306da60e460e46

118	10/13/10 11:29AM	ENV	BF_CALLER_D=101013

119	10/13/10 11:29AM	ENV	BF_CALLER_J=285

120	10/13/10 11:29AM	ENV	BF_CALLER_T=112745

121	10/13/10 11:29AM	ENV	BF_CALLER_TAG=MY_PROJECT_11

122	10/13/10 11:29AM	ENV	BF_CALLER_W=3

Is there a reason items like the caller's BID is missing? And why are there CALLER_CALLER items instead of all being CALLER items?

Is it possible to get all of the BF_CALLER environment data in such a chain (just like in a regular step chain)?

The last thing I couldn't figure out, though not important to what I'm doing, is how to tell that this was a "project chain" instead of a "step chain". Could that be a variable in there as well?

Anyway, I do have a work-around, so I am not stuck, but it would be nice not to have to use it. Basically, the ".bset" command still works, so you can set up your own variables in the original project to carry forward the BF_CALLER information to the chained project.

Hope this helps someone. Let me know if I should open an enhancement request for this extra meta-data.

Cheers.

EDIT: If anyone knows of another (easier) way to trigger an arbitrary library/project after the build completes and get all of the meta-data, I'd be very interested.