Running the build step from outside of the Talend ide.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

We are in the process to switching over to using Gradle for automated builds and a question came up to see if it is possible to run the build step from outside of the Talend ide in order to automate the build of the jar files.  I am thinking it would be possible but am not sure how to get that set-up.  Is it possible? 

Thank you in advance for any information you can provide on this.

Tom     

[Anonymous]

Talend does not store java in SVN. To build the jobs externally, you will first need to automate generating the code for each job using the commandline. To do this, the simplest way is to actually build the jobs (exportJob in commandline scripting) -- so you'd end up building the jobs with Talend to then build the jobs with Gradle. Not sure what you would gain from this other than a headache

What problem are you trying to solve by building the jobs with Gradle? is it just to standardize your build process?  

[Anonymous]

You can make use of the CommandLine (with the Enterprise Edition) to do this. The CommandLine is basically a headless Studio that can be called by script. The documentation is not very good for this and you will need to experiment a little. Take a look here to get started.

[Anonymous]

Yes this is possible via commandline (for paid subscriptions only)
All you need to so is:
1. Create a script file with initRemote, logonProject and buildJob commands.
            initRemote <TAC_URL> -ul <UserName> -up <Password>
            logonProject -pn <ProjectName> -br <SVNBranch>
            buildJob <JobName> -dd <OutputFolder> -af <ZipFileName>

2. Create a windows batch or unix shell to Execute Talend exe in commandline script file mode.
            Talend-Studio-linux-gtk-x86 -nosplash -application org.talend.commandline.CommandLine -consoleLog -data commandline-workspace scriptFile \temp\Build.txt
3. Schedule any job (using any scheduler program) and keep executing the batch file created in step 2
Hope this helps. Let me know.

Thanks
Rohan Suresh

[Anonymous]

Thanks all for your feedback. 
John - We are moving our build process over to Gradle and part of this effort is to bring the Talend part of our development environment into the fold with everything else.  Up until this point, the Talend code has been excluded from our automated build process.    
RHall and Rohan - I'll work with the information you provided and will let you know once I have it working.
Thanks again.