[p4] How to use Perforce P4/PERL API to get filelog info?

[Gross, Steve]

Perldoc is one thing; but the online documentation really should clarify that the Integrations() function is indeed available.

--Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Foglesong [mailto:defoglesong at msn.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:12 PM
> To: Gross, Steve; jeff.n.grills at disney.com; perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: RE: [p4] How to use Perforce P4/PERL API to get filelog info?
> 
> 
> "perldoc P4" on my system (built for 2008.2) contains a pretty clear
> example of using RunFilelog that shows the presence of the
> Integrations() method:
> 
>        RunFilelog( $args ... )
>            Runs a "p4 filelog" with the supplied arguments, and returns
> the
>            results as an array of P4::DepotFile objects. Tagged output
> for "p4
>            filelog" is not easy to read, nor is it easy to handle
> programmati-
>            cally, so this wrapper converts it into an array of objects
> to make
>            it easier to work with. For example:
> 
>              foreach $file ( $p4->RunFilelog( "//depot/path/..." ) )
>              {
>                  printf( "%s\n", $file->DepotFile() );
>                  foreach $rev ( $file->Revisions() )
>                  {
>                      printf( "... #%d %s by %s@%s %s\n",
>                            $rev->Rev(),
>                            $rev->Action(),
>                            $rev->User(),
>                            $rev->Client(),
>                            $rev->Desc() );
> 
>                      foreach $integ ( $rev->Integrations() )
>                      {
>                            printf( "... ... %s %s#%d,%d\n",
>                                    $integ->How(),
>                                    $integ->File(),
>                                    $integ->SRev() + 1,
>                                    $integ->ERev()
>                                    );
>                      }
>                  }
>              }
> 
> "perldoc P4::DepotFile" and "perldoc P4::Integration" and "perldoc
> P4::Revision" will give you more details about those objects and the
> methods they support.
> 
> Incidentally, an easy way to look at a data structure is to use the
> Data::Dumper module. e.g.,
> 
> use Data::Dumper;
> # ... do P4 operations here to get your list of stuff ...
> print Dumper @ListOfStuff;
> 
> David Foglesong
> 

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