separate tool for uploading to smolder

[coke]

Instead of bundling the functionality of uploading a copy of the archived TAP to smolder inside t/harness, that should instead call out to another command line utility in tools/

This will allow developers to easily upload test results later if the smolder connection is unavailable at the time, or to easily upload test results from a network-connected computer after transferring the test run data from a non-networked (or firewalled) computer.

This means that the tags generated as part of send_archive_to_smolder probably need to be pre-generated to an a file that can be copied along with the TAP results (since the machine sending the results would not necessarily generate the same tags.)

[jkeenan]

Before embarking on development on this tool, I wonder if we could see if anyone in our project has used  the GUI interface already provided by Smolder?

Was it easy/difficult to use?

Did it get the metadata right?

Did it DWIM?

[dukeleto]

I already have a tool like this that should be simple to modify for Parrot.

[jkeenan]

Replying to dukeleto:

I already have a tool like this that should be simple to modify for Parrot.

The Cage Cleaners ask: Would it be possible to get an update on the status of this ticket?

Thank you very much.
kid51

[mikehh]

I have had situations where the upload has failed (off-line or couldn't connect, whatever) - in that case you can use the following command to upload the archive:

perl -Ilib -MParrot::Harness::Smoke -e'Parrot::Harness::Smoke::send_archive_to_smolder(Parrot::Harness::Smoke::collect_test_environment_data())'

I found this in the docs somewhere, but I can't track it down at the moment.

this allows you to send the archive parrot_test_run.tar.gz generated by make smoke to the archive later (provided the parrot config/environment data has not changed)

[jkeenan]

Replying to mikehh:

> 
> I found this in the docs somewhere, but I can't track it down at the moment.

Yes, that's in lib/Parrot/Harness/Smoke.pm and it works well. What I was getting at was that dukeleto seemed to be suggesting he had some other tool available. (And, as I mentioned above, Smolder has its own GUI upload interface.)

[jkeenan]

Replying to dukeleto:

I already have a tool like this that should be simple to modify for Parrot.

dukeleto, Are you still pursuing this option?

If not, then I think the ticket is closable.

Thank you very much.

kid51

[dukeleto]

I just realized something like this already exists: examples/io/post.pir

Closing this ticket.