Listen to all Perforce commands made by my client machine to server

Question

Hi,

Is it possible to somehow listen to all perforce cammands issued from my machine to the perforce server?

I did some googling yesterday and found a page somewhere about a perforce proxy or broker that would intercept perforce commands and allow you to do what you wanted with them before sending them to the server...and now can't find the page!

I am trying to debug our build process (built using Maven) that is failing while running the maven-release-plugin (prepare).

Cheers.

Answer 1

It was maybe P4Broker (it seems hard to find an official link, hence the google search).

Answer 2

Thanks for the reply - was the link I was looking for though turned out it wasn't what I wanted.

In the end I ended up modifying my Windows PATH so that 'p4' would not directly call perforce but instead execute a bat file:

@echo off

set PERFORCE_HOME="C:\Program Files (x86)\Perforce\p4.exe"
set OUTPUT_FILE=C:\batScripts\output\p4out.txt"

echo =========================== >> %OUTPUT_FILE%
echo ===== PERFORCE DEBUG ====== >> %OUTPUT_FILE%
echo =========================== >> %OUTPUT_FILE%
echo $ p4 %* >> %OUTPUT_FILE%
echo =========================== >> %OUTPUT_FILE%
echo Timestamp: %Date% %Time% >> %OUTPUT_FILE%
echo Vars: >> %OUTPUT_FILE%
%PERFORCE_HOME% set >> %OUTPUT_FILE%
echo ` >> %OUTPUT_FILE%

%PERFORCE_HOME% %*