Perforce Commit Logger Discord Bot

With this bot you're able to keep track of commits made to a Perforce version control server within a Discord channel.

Installation Steps

Setup Python

Install python2.7
Install python-pip
Install pip install enum34
Install pip install Discord-Webhooks

Setup P4

We have to install P4 on your computer.

Linux:

If the perforce server is using SSL, you'll have to trust the certificate. To know if it is using ssl, the perforce url should start with ssl:<URL>

p4 -p <PERFORCE URL> trust

Setup bot

1. Within your Discord server go to the settings for the channel you'd like the commit logs to be posted to and copy the webhook URL.
2. In order to use this bot the config file needs to be set up config.json
3. The service requires access to the p4 changes command in the terminal, your bot should be installed somewhere where it can automatically perform this command without the session expiring. $ python commit.py to initialize it.
4. Optionally you should consider creating a CRON script or something similar that restarts the commit.py file on server reboot in order to keep the bot alive.

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Getting Started

Every n seconds the bot runs a Perforce command in the terminal that checks for the most recent changes. If it finds one it stores it in memory, if the change it finds is the same as the one it gathered previously then it discards it.

You'll need to provide the bot with access to your servers Perforce command line. One way of doing this is running the Python application on the server which hosts your Perforce instance alternatively you can store the perforce credentials in the config.js .

If you can type p4 changes yourself then the bot will be able to do its thing.

Configuration

The installation will require you to enter a number of settings as environment variables. Below you'll find an explanation of each.

Required: JSON field needs to be there but it can be

Key	Value Information	Required	Default
use_filter	if set to true filters are being used	yes	false
pull_interval	timer for the pull request to the perforce server	yes	30.0

Configuration Group: p4

Key	Value Information	Required	Default
host	perforce server url	yes
user	perforce user		null
password	perforce password		null
depot	perforce depot url (include location of depot on disk + the depot name) (/root/depot/Y2018D-Y2-DigitalDeckbuilder)		null
limit	limit of commits	yes	5
status	perforce status (pending, submitted, or shelved)	yes	submitted
decode	perforce commit message decoing	yes	ISO-8859-1
swarm	swarm url	yes

Configuration Group: filters

Filters are an optional array what can be used if the config field is set use_filter:true

Key	Value Information
tag	tag name the bot is filtering the commit messages
color	hex code for the color

Example:

    "filters": [
        {
            "tag": "ADD",
            "color": "ff0000"
        }
    ]

Configuration Group: discord

Key	Value Information
webhook_url	webhook url for the noticiation
name	discord user name (Not implemented)