Optimization of storage

[VojKozel]

Current solution wasting too much disk storage because of copy-pasting all content via

cp --recursive --preserve=timestamps $PROJECT_LATEST_REPORT/* $NEW_REPORT_DIRECTORY/

For default allure server configurations, files like app.js, styles.css etc.. are absolutely the same and for each report, they take about 2-3MB+. From the perspective where we want to use this server for some automated test which runs multiple times per day, it can waste a lot of storage for no reason.

There should be added some experimental feature (Idk how about all allure server configuration, where these files should be different, but for default allure report from cucumber test it's ok) where it will replace copy-pasting of all files by creating symlinks.

I mean something like

ln -s $PROJECT_LATEST_REPORT/styles.css $NEW_REPORT_DIRECTORY/styles.css
ln -s $PROJECT_LATEST_REPORT/app.js $NEW_REPORT_DIRECTORY/app.js

It will be great if you will think about this feature, it should helpful everyone who wants to use your image for real usage.

[fescobar]

Thank you @VojKozel. This will be the next improvement.

[AdamRussak]

@fescobar when will this be implemented ?
we are using the image and our storage is getting full with only 40 tests (150GB)

[fescobar]

@AdamRussak don't use CHECK_RESULTS_EVERY_SECONDS:3 for multiprojects. That is going to generate thousands reports. Use CHECK_RESULTS_EVERY_SECONDS: NONE instead. Use the GET /generate-report endpoint once you have all the results files generated. On that way, only you will generate just one report on demand.
I will continue developing the next year.

[fescobar]

@VojKozel @AdamRussak you will have news soon.

[fescobar]

@VojKozel @AdamRussak
The version 2.13.7 was released with the improvement suggested as EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE
https://github.com/fescobar/allure-docker-service/releases/tag/v2.13.7

The documentation about that is here:
https://github.com/fescobar/allure-docker-service#optimize-storage

Thank you for your suggestions

[AdamRussak]

@fescobar appreciate it!
Updated and checking!