On 21 Feb 2014, at 6:02 pm, Joachim Nilsson <jocce.nils...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I ran into a tricky part of the code that I would like some hints with.
> Background: I am investigating how to make it possible to make incremental
> builds after a rename or move of the rootDir (normal for incremental builds
> in CI servers running many executors on different slaves).
>
> The first part was fairly easy to solve, in a not so pretty way, but with
> minimal changes.
> Now I can read the task history even after a move of directories.
>
> My solution for the first part was to use the incoming task in
> CacheBackedTaskHistoryRepository to get the project root dir and then strip
> that part from the path in the binary file just before serializing. Changing
> the internal representation to non absolute will have way too big impact for
> me to grasp so I figured small change (a new boolan before the path) in the
> binary format was better.
>
> public void write(Encoder encoder, LazyTaskExecution execution)
> throws Exception {
> ...
> encoder.writeInt(execution.getOutputFiles().size());
> for (String outputFile : execution.getOutputFiles()) {
> if (canBeConvertedFromAbsolutePath(outputFile)){
> encoder.writeBoolean(true);
>
> encoder.writeString(convertFromAbsolutePath(outputFile));
> }else{
> encoder.writeBoolean(false);
> encoder.writeString(outputFile);
> }
> }
> ...
> }
>
> However, it was not done yet. Now I face that the
> CacheBackedFileSnapshotRepository is also involved in setting the UP-TO-DATE
> flag to false since it compares output files directly between runs. And this
> time the whole FileCollectionSnapshot is stored so my minimal change attempt
> will fail.
>
> Any suggestions for solving the CacheBackedFileSnapshotRepository?
> Here, the whole object is serialized and in the serializer, there is no
> access to Task, Project or Gradle. Replacing the object with relative file
> references would probably fail the serialization since it uses File.exists
> for each file.
I would use the cache base directory as the base directory, in both
CacheBackedFileSnapshotRepository and CacheBackedFileSnapshotRepository. It can
be queried from TaskArtifactStateCacheAccess, but you’ll have to add a getter
on it to expose the cache base dir.
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