Accurev - How to update the file content in a stream after a promote

Question

We have different streams for different environments. It is a grail project. So there is a property file called application.properties which has a property called app.version. I want that to be updated automatically post every promote done on the stream. Each stream will have different version number. Trigger server_post_promote_trig will be used to handle the post promote operation, but I am not sure how to access the files in the stream through script. I tried to give the path as /Folder1/file as reflected in the xml trigger input file, but I cannot update the file as trigger perl file complains it cannot find the file.

Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

If I understand your question correctly. You want to increment the version in a file under source control when ever a promotion occurs in the stream. If this is correct, you need to create a workspace off said stream which will edit/keep/promote the new version of this file. I would create a separate script that gets called by the server_post_promote trigger whenever a promotion occurs in this stream. This script would be placed under src control which is accessible in the workspace you created above.

Answer 2

Also, within the script, you will probably want to build in logic to detect the promotion of the version file, to block updating the file again.

Answer 3

In Accurev, files can only be modified via a workspace. As this is the case It may be better to implement a pre promote trigger to update this version information in the file when the user is performing the workspace to stream promote.

This would be similar to the existing Addheader script that can be found in the examples directory on the accurev server.