Xserverpy

Xserverpy makes it possible to use Xcode bots from the command line.

Use cases

• Running Xcode server tasks, like new integration (ie. Build project) or list bots, without the need to install or run Xcode.
• Build Xcode bots from another CI tool like Jenkins (see Future milestones and improvements.
• You love ASCII progress bars (or Nikola Tesla's inventions)

Installation

Using brew (recommended)

brew tap oarrabi/tap
brew install xserverpy

Using pip

pip install xserverpy

Usage

Authentication and Host information

All of xserverpy command accept authentication and Xcode server host/port as flags. For example, in order to list all the bots you would run:

xserverpy bots --host HOST --port PORT --user USER --pass PASS

To reduce duplication in calling consequent or future commands, you can run init subcommand to store these configuration on your machine.

xserverpy init --host HOST --port PORT --user USER --pass PASS 

Now that you stored them, you can call all of xcserverpy subcommands without passing these stored arguments:

xserverpy bots
xserverpy integrations list

xserverpy init flags:

 --host HOST Xcode server host
--port PORT Xcode server host port, default 443
--user USER Username to use for authentication
--password PASSWORD Password to use for authentication
--local Store configuration file in the local directory

Note:

• Running init sotres a configuration file at ~/.xserverpy.
• Using init --local stores the configuration in the current directory

Bots

List all bots Demo

xserverpy bots # pass host/user info or load from stored

Integrations

List integrations per bot Demo

xserverpy integrations list --bot <Bot name or ID>

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Integrate (build project) Demo

xserverpy integrations new --bot <Bot name or ID>

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Integrate and wait Demo

xserverpy integrations new --bot <Bot name or ID> --wait

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Show running integrations Demo

xserverpy integrations running

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Cancel integrations (build project) Demo

xserverpy integrations cancel --id <Integration ID>

Note on integrate and wait

When using xserverpy integrations new --wait, xserverpy keeps polling Xcode server for updates on the running integrations. The default interval is .5s, you can control the behavior and the format of the progress using the following flags:

--interval INTERVAL Interval to poll the server for updates, default .5s
--no-tty Force non tty progress reporting

Future milestones and improvements

• Create Jenkins plugin to embed Xcode server tasks in Jenkins
• Implement show all pending integrations
• Improve code coverage

Author

Omar Abdelhafith nsomar, nsomar medium, @ifnottrue