Hudson Plugin for viewing XML Data as a chart (over time)

Question

Hi,

I'm trying to find a way to get this working:

I use a Hudson Continuous Integration Server where I have some Maven builds. I've configured Findbugs for these builds and also the Graph plugin that shows me the Findbugs trend. Now I've developed a maven plugin that creates an xml file with some values in it like:

<rootElement>
  <name>RootElement</name>
  <subElement>
    <name>Element1</name>
    <subValue>0.6</subValue>
  </subelement>
  <subelement>
    <name>Element2</name>
    <subValue>0.4</subValue>
  </subelement>
  <rootValue>0.5</rootValue>
</rootElement>

What I want is a kind of table with the name of the element and its value (That may be elapsed/collapsed). In Addition I want to track the trend of the values over time. Since Hudson can save build artifacts the xml of the last builds they should be easily accessed within a Hudson Plugin.

If that may not be suitable, maybe there is a possibility to use xsl templates to get a result page!?

For the charts one may also use google chart api? Any ideas or help welcome.

Kind Regards, Michael

Answer 1

Take a look at the Plot Plugin. I haven't used it, but from the documentation, this looks like just what you want. It reads values from a Java properties file after the build finished. So you just need to convert your XML to the appropriate format, and configure the plugin to read the desired values, and it should work.

Answer 2

The Plot Plugin mentioned by @AFoglia works great for basic numeric data from each build.

For the charts one may also use google chart api?

The Plot Plugin uses its own charting. If you specifically want a google chart, your best bet is to write a script to upload the data to a google spreadsheet as part of each build.