Your software development pipeline is a key corporate asset. Your ability to extend and improve it by pulling data from and storing it in Perforce directly impacts the efficiency of your development teams. Tour the available Perforce data sources, tools, and APIs, including some off the beaten path.

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Matt Attaway
Open Source Community
Manager
Perforce the Plentiful Platform

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Perforce Data Sources

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Perforce Data Sources
§ Standard commands
§ Logtail
§ Journal -> P4toDb
§ Monitor
§ Spec depot

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APIs

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Command Line

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Command Line Advantages
§ Runs Everywhere
§ Output is easily parsed
§ Access to full range of Perforce commands

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Command Line Disadvantages
§ Performance penalty
§ Must parse text output yourself

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APIs

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APIs
§ Perl
§ Python
§ Ruby
§ Objective C
§ PHP
§ Java
§ .Net
§ Node.js
§ C++

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API Advantages
§ More performant
§ Results parsed into data structures
§ Uses language exception support

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API Disadvantages
§ Needs to be installed
§ Not all commands available in some languages

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P4Web

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Git

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P4VC

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Commons Web Services

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P4DTG

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Chronicle

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Integrating with Perforce

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Integrating with Perforce
Server

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Server Triggers

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Server triggers
§ Form
§ Out/Pre/Parsed/Post/Delete
§ Shelve
§ Pre/Post/Delete
§ Archive
§ Commit
§ Pre/Content/Post
§ Fix
§ Add/Delete

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Server Broker

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Broker Usage
§ Redirect users to replica servers
§ Deny commands

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Integrating with Perforce
Clients

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P4V

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P4V Extension Points
§ Custom tools
§ Alerts
§ Tabs
§ Submit dialog

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Swarm

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Insights

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Data Storage

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Data Storage
§ Files
§ File attributes
§ Counters/keys
§ Index/search
§ Properties

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