changelog and perforce

I'm trying to use the changelog with Perforce but after some
investigation it appear that the SCM provider for Perforce in not
creating the necessary client.  The changelog plugin executes this
command:

 

p4 -p perforce:1666 -c
JACKSBRR-LW-CT-JACKSBRR-MavenSCM-C:\Projects\SuperPOMs\espn filelog -t
-l ...

 

It must be failing silently because when I try to execute the same
command I get this error:

 

... - must create client
'JACKSBRR-LW-CT-JACKSBRR-MavenSCM-C:\Projects\SuperPOMs\espn' to access
local files.

 

 

My changelog config is:

 



maven-changelog-plugin

2.0-SNAPSHOT





perforce-report



range

10



 
org.apache.maven.perforcelib.PerforceChangeLogF
actory



/MM/dd HH:mm:ss

${basedir}





changelog

file-activity

dev-activity

RE: Perforce "Unable to submit" error

The error handling in the perforce scm plugin was minimal so I went
ahead and patched it in my local repository so I could test.  My patch
(http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SCM-363) has been applied to the trunk
so if you install it locally you should be able to get more information.

 

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/scm/trunk/maven-scm-providers/maven-s
cm-provider-perforce/

 

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/scm/trunk/maven-scm-providers/mave
n-scm-provider-perforce/

 

Also I have to manually login once per day since we have ticket-based
authorization and the maven-scm-provider for perforce doesn't handle
logins and assumes you have logged in manually.

 



From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Carl Pettersson
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 6:56 AM
To: scm-users@maven.apache.org
Subject: Perforce "Unable to submit" error

 

Hello!

I'm having trouble getting scm with perforce working. I've set up a
simple project (archetype:create), and then modified my pom.xml to
contain this: 

...

  

scm:perforce:p4bck:1666://my-app

 
scm:perforce:p4bck:1666://my-app

  

...

  



  

  org.apache.maven.plugins

  maven-scm-plugin

  



  

maven.scm.perforce.clientspec.name

Mavenclient

  



user

passwd

developerConnection

  

  



  

...

I am able to do scm:update without errors, and the p4 commandline client
works. However, if I do any action which tries to submits, such as
release:prepare or scm:checkin, I get an "Unable to submit" error. For
example, here I try checking in my pom.xml:

[DEBUG] Executing p4 -d C:\PerforceRoot\MC\my-app -p p4bck:1666 -u user
-P  submit -i

[DEBUG] SCM path in pom: //my-app

[DEBUG] Executing: p4 -p p4bck:1666 -u user -P  where
C:\PerforceRoot\MC\my-app\pom.xml

[DEBUG] cannot find depot => using //my-app

[DEBUG] Sending changelist:

Change: new

 

Description:

mvn

 

Files:

//my-app/pom.xml

 

[ERROR] Provider message:

[ERROR] Unable to submit

[ERROR] Command output:

[ERROR]

First sign of something not working I suppose is "cannot find depot",
why? And when it cannot, it still uses the correct one... (I've also
tried using //Mavenclient/my-app as url, only difference is that it
falls back to using //Mavenclient/my-app instead of //my-app)

The Mavenclient clientspec exists.

 

I'm using Maven version 2.0.9 with JDK 1.5.0.15 on WinXP. scm-plugin is
version 1.0, release-plugin is 2.0-beta-7.

 

Have I done some misconfiguration? There are a few threads about this
available when googling, however they either don't get a reply, or the
solution does not solve the problem. 

Any other information needed to debug this?

 

Thankful for any help

Carl Pettersson