[Qbs] Writing a custom script by QBS

[Ben Lau]

Hi Christian,

Thanks for your reply. I have tried to run your example (by removing the
dependence). It will complain:

*ERROR: *Cannot run: Product 'remote deployer' is not an application.

On 19 October 2017 at 16:19, Christian Kandeler <christian.kandeler at qt.io>
wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 03:04:15 +0800
> Ben Lau <xbenlau at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am still new to QBS. I am looking for a suggestion about how to write
> and
> > run a custom script by QBS.
> >
> > Besides building the binary, developers may need additional custom
> scripts
> > for deployment, code analysis, starting a mock server for testing etc.
> This
> > kind of task may not have a file output locally.
> >
> > Can I write this kind of script by QBS?  I usually write this kind of
> > script as a shell script, but it is not a cross-platform solution which
> > does not work with Windows.
>
> You should be able to use the normal mechanisms that are also used for
> building. Here's a sketch for for remote deployment (untested):
>
> Product {
>     name: "remote deployer"
>
>     type: ["mydeploytarget"]
>
>     // You typically don't want to do uploads after every build, so this
> product's rules are not
>     // executed unless you specifically request it.
>     builtByDefault: false
>
>     // Assuming you want to upload e.g. some tar archive you've created
> from your build.
>     Depends { name: "mypackage" }
>
>     // These as well as the rule below would typically be moved into a
> dedicated module
>     // for better re-usability, but it's easier to demonstrate with a
> self-contained
>     // product.
>     property string remoteUser
>     property string serverName
>     property string targetDir
>
>     Rule {
>         // The target type(s) of your dependency/dependencies.
>         inputsFromDependencies: ["archiver.archive"]
>
>         Artifact {
>             // Just a dummy. Does not have to get created. We should
> probably
>             // have syntactic sugar for this.
>             filePath: "deploydummy"
>
>             fileTags: ["mydeploytarget"]
>         }
>
>         prepare: {
>             var targetString = product.remoteUser + '@' +
> product.serverName + '/' + product.targetDir;
>             var cmd = new Command("scp", [input.filePath, targetString]);
>             cmd.description = "uploading " + input.fileName;
>             return [cmd];
>         }
>     }
> }
>
> Now this should upload your archive (possibly rebuilding if necessary):
> $ qbs -p "remote deployer"
>
>
> Christian
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