1. Perforce Birds of a Feather
An introduction to the ‘P4’ Plugin and update on the latest features.
Paul Allen – Perforce Software

2. Polling, triggers and reviews P4 Groovy
Introduction
The Perfect Monorepo
P4 plugin
Getting started
Workspace management
Polling, triggers and reviews
P4 Groovy

3. The Perfect Monorepo What is a Monorepo?
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4. One Repo The Monorepo
One Repo to rule them all, One Repo to find them,
One Repo to bring them all and in the server bind them.
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5. The Monorepo Store all sources, projects and sub projects;
even artifacts, tooling, docs and test reports...
All in one place, but accessible everywhere

6. SourceTime
Build a view across source and time Reproduce any source at any point in time

7. Global Access
Fast access across the global
Fine grain protections

8. Perforce plugin support for Jenkins
P4 Plugin
Perforce plugin support for Jenkins
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9. Community ‘Perforce’ plugin Perforce Supported ‘P4’ plugin
Disambiguation
Community ‘Perforce’ plugin
Perforce Supported ‘P4’ plugin

10. Why P4Java Latest features The ‘P4’ plugin
Efficient use of Perforce to reduce server load.
P4Java
Pure Java solution
No ‘P4’ executable to install and keep up-to-date.
Latest features
Streams, sync and clean up options

11. Getting started First the basics…
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12. Configure a basic connection Managing Workspaces
Getting started
Configure a basic connection
Managing Workspaces
Source code management
All from the perspective of
Jenkins Freestyle Job and Pipeline DSL

13. Connection information Password credentials
Perforce address and port
workshop.perforce.com:1666
Password credentials
Username
Password
ID (useful to reference in the DSL)
Description

14. Ticket based security SSL and Trust Credentials
Perforce generated Ticket String
$ p4 login –p
4E034A8812F81B38229BF8FA62B0FEB1
Location of Perforce P4TICKET file
/home/pallen/.p4ticket
SSL and Trust
Check the SSL box to add the ssl: part to P4PORT
Use p4 trust or click test to get the fingerprint

15. Jenkins and Perforce Workspaces
Workspace Management
Jenkins and Perforce Workspaces
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16. Jenkins workspace Perforce workspace Shared root Workspaces
Location of files (on the master or slave) for Jenkins to build
Perforce workspace
Location where Perforce will manage the versioned an non-versioned files
Shared root
Recommend Perforce and Jenkins workspaces share the same root
One Jenkins workspace to map to one Perforce workspace

17. View Mapping Workspace +---AceProject | +---src | +---test
| docs
| libs
+---BlastProject
| | blast.jar
//depot/AceProject/...
-//depot/AceProject/docs/...
-//depot/AceProject/libs/...
//depot/BlastProject/libs/...

18. Workspace //depot/AceProject/... -//depot/AceProject/docs/...
-//depot/AceProject/libs/...
//depot/BlastProject/libs/...
//{client}/Ace/...
-//{client}/Ace/docs/...
-//(client}/Ace/libs/...
//{client}/Ace/plugins/...

19. Perforce workspace Jenkins Workspace Workspace +---AceProject
| src
| test
| docs
| libs
+---BlastProject
| | blast.jar
Jenkins Workspace
+---Ace
| src
| test
| |
| plugins
| | |
| | blast.jar

20. Variable expansion

21. SCM Stages
Populate
Label
Publish

22. Populate
Auto
Force Clean

23. Label
Automatic label
View
Description
Label on success

24. Publish
Workspace setup
Narrow views
Read/Write access
Virtual streams

25. Polling, Triggers and Reviews
Still polling?
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26. Polling vs Triggers
Pin
Filter
Incremental builds

27. Swarm Reviews
Configuration
Callbacks
Browsing

28. Classic Jobs
Walkthrough or demo

29. Pipeline
Walkthrough or demo

30. P4 command access for Groovy
P4 Groovy
P4 command access for Groovy
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31. P4 Groovy
Walkthrough or demo

32. Questions

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