Submitting artifacts to Perforce via Bamboo

Question

I am in a process of evaluating Bamboo for our next project so forgive me if this is a basic question but I was unable to find any related answers in docs / answers.

I have a simple plan that checks out of perforce and builds both Linux and Windows binaries.  It packs then as artifacts and passes then to the next stage.

Now being in the next stage, what is my next step?

I guess I have couple of options:

1) Write a command line script that can check out / submit a directory in my working folder?

2) Write ant / maven scripts that do that?

3 ???

Does anyone have any suggestions / best practices?

Thanks,

Marcin

marcin wieczore1 · Answer

Excellent.  Thank you for the response.

PiotrA · Answer

I think at some point we wanted to add facilities in Bamboo to allow 'pushing' back some changes to repositories, but AFAIK we ended only in adding "Tag/Branch Task" for Subverison: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM-9137 - nothing similar for other repositories nor for Perforce. I reckon this is because different users have different needs as to what and how to push back to remote repository. That's why I'd say it is the 'best practice' at the moment to push/submit/tag anything in Perforce repository via a home-made scripts...

regards!

marcin wieczore1 · Answer

Thanks for the answer Piotr.

To be honest, the messy part is probably more related to the project setup then anything that Bamboo does.   Figuring out which files need to be checked out / checked in by the command is not going to be fun.  Having an abilty to submit artifact package(s) without having to jump though hoops would be nice.

It is a bit odd that I can very easily integrate with perfore for checkouts but I need to write a script to submit back.  Seams a bit odd, not difficult, jost odd.  But I guess I'm not missing anything.