Can I trigger a nightly build when changes have been made in the last 24 hours?

Question

I'm testing about a dozen applications, all written in PHP using Zend Framework, which do their unit testing with PHPUnit. I've recently turned off code coverage for all these builds, as many of them take 30+ minutes to finish a single build with code completion turned on, and 15-60 seconds to do a build with it turned off. I am starting to miss the nice charts which show the code coverage history though.

So, is there a way I can schedule a nightly build which happens when a change has occurred in the last 24 hours? For this build, I will have a custom variable set which will include the code coverage options for PHPUnit. I suppose I could have it do a nightly build whether or not a commit has occurred, but it seems like a waste of build numbers for some of our projects which aren't being actively worked on.

Can anyone think of a way to do this, or a better alternative I'm totally missing?

Thanks!

David Paquin · Answer

Thanks, I'll take a look at that documentation

Marcin Gardias · Answer

REST doc: https://developer.atlassian.com/display/BAMBOODEV/Bamboo+REST+Resources#BambooRESTResources-BuildQueueService

Marcin Gardias · Answer

Sorry for not coming back to you earlier.
If you have 2 triggers on a plan, they 'share' the history. So if Stash triggers the build, the polling later on will not trigger it again.

You can use /queue REST resource to start build from a script. If you add params in form of "bamboo.variableName" to the query string, bamboo will use those to override respective global/plan variables.