# Buildbot

Introduction

This document describes how to setup the AMF gateway for Buildbot that can be used by other programs to query the build status.

There will be live demo available on our BuildBot’s homepage.

Note: this page is a work in progress (#298, #293)

## Download

Grab the Flex and Python example clients from SVN with:

    svn export http://svn.pyamf.org/examples/branches/buildbot-example-298/buildbot buildbot-example

Alternatively, if you just want to have a look, you can browse the example source online.

## Buildbot configuration

Install buildbot:

    easy_install buildbot

Create a new buildmaster:

    buildbot create-master test

Download the Buildbot AMF gateway and put it in your buildmaster root folder:

    cd test
    wget http://buildbot.net/trac/raw-attachment/ticket/293/amf.py

Modify your buildmaster configuration file called `master.cfg` and enable the AMF gateway in the WebStatus view:

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    from buildbot.status import html
    from amf import AMFServer

    public = html.WebStatus(http_port="8080", allowForce=False)
    public.putChild('gateway', AMFServer())
    c['status'].append(public)

Start your buildmaster:

    buildbot start .

Check if the AMF gateway is working by browsing to http://localhost:8080/gateway. That should return something like this:

    Method Not Allowed

    Your browser approached me (at /gateway) with the method "GET". I only allow the method POST here.

## Client

### Python

When you run the Python AMF client by default it connects to http://localhost:8080/gateway and prints the status of the builder(s):

    2009-07-18 21:02:36,319 INFO  Connecting to http://localhost:8080/gateway
    2009-07-18 21:02:36,363 INFO  Total builders: 1
    2009-07-18 21:02:36,363 INFO  Builder status:
    2009-07-18 21:02:36,374 INFO         buildbot-full       None

### Flash Player

The easiest is to copy the contents of the Flex deploy folder into your <buildmaster home>/public_html folder. That allows you to run the application on http://localhost:8080/amf.html.