Development of an Automation Pipeline

The application will receive as input a commands file and execute them one by one in sequence.

Stage 1:

• Implement a list of basic commands where each command can have different parameters:

  • File Copy
    • Parameters: Source File, Destination File
  • File Delete
    • Parameters: File Path
  • Query Folder Files
    • Parameter: Folder Path
    • Output: print to console list of all files in folders
  • Create Folder
    • Parameter: Folder Path , new Folder Name
  • Download File
    • Parameters: Source url, output File
  • Wait
    • Parameter: wait time in seconds
  • Conditional Count Rows File:
    • Parameter: source file, string to search in rows
    • Output: Count of rows in the file that contain the search string

• reading of the command file from a plain text file

Stage 2:

• Execute a command to run a command file

In step 3

• Implement reading of the script file as an XML file

In stage 4

• Allow the customer to build execute own commands (plugins / extensions)

Implementation of the Task

• MyPipeline uses commands configuration inside App.config file in the section MyPipeline.commands
• MyPipeline has two command extenders (PipelineExecuter and FolderExecuter), which are loaded using reflections.
• Compile and run the MyPipeline application using following commands:
  • MyPipeline -cmd copy file1.dat file2.dat
  • MyPipeline -file commands_example.txt
  • MyPipeline -file commands_example.xml