Re: [Fab-user] Summarize results from parallel execution

[Vineet Gupta]

Thanks a bunch. Exactly what I needed. I didn't realize how execute() returns value from all parallel execution as dictionary. 

Much appreciated.

- Vineet

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Jeff Forcier <address@hidden> wrote:

I added the answer to this, as an FAQ in the docs. It comes up a lot.
It's here now:

    http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.6/faq.html#how-can-i-run-something-after-my-task-is-done-on-all-hosts

(which should link to
http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.6/usage/execution.html#leveraging-execute-return-value
)

-Jeff

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Vineet Gupta <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks Jeff.
> As Fabric runs a given task in parallel, what would be the best way to
> collect information from various runs on different hosts, and publish it
> once task finishes?
>
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Jeff Forcier <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> If you check the API docs you'll see that `execute()` returns a
>> host-string-keyed dict whose values are the return code of each
>> iteration of the task, or an exception object if the task failed
>> partway. That should get you at least part of the way there. Either
>> way, summary reporting (in any mode, serial or parallel) is something
>> that's definitely on the table at some point.
>>
>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Vineet Gupta <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > I am trying to find best option to summarize results from parallel
>> > execution
>> > of certain task. Usually what happens that I have to look through the
>> > debug
>> > trace to figure out what succeeded and what failed. What I'd like to do
>> > is
>> > an option to look into result.return_code and construct a result in a
>> > tabular structure with hosts which "passed" and hosts which didn't pass.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Vineet
>> >
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>>
>>
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>> Jeff Forcier
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>
>



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