bitbake: user-manual-metadata.xml: Re-write of "Events" section.

General cleanup of the text.

(Bitbake rev: 112dd4279826dc7587e1b8acb4a107374b5bd0fd)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Scott Rifenbark
2014-02-10 08:11:58 -06:00
committed by Richard Purdie
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<section id='events'>
<title>Events</title>
<note>
This is only supported in <filename>.bb</filename>
and <filename>.bbclass</filename> files.
</note>
<para>
BitBake allows installation of event handlers.
BitBake allows installation of event handlers within
recipe and class files.
Events are triggered at certain points during operation,
such as the beginning of operation against a given
<filename>.bb</filename>, the start of a given task,
task failure, task success, and so forth.
The intent is to make it easy to do things like email
notification on build failure.
</para>
<para>
Following is an example event handler that
prints the name of the event and the content of
the <filename>FILE</filename> variable:
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
addhandler myclass_eventhandler
python myclass_eventhandler() {
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</literallayout>
This event handler gets called every time an event is
triggered.
A global variable "<filename>e</filename>" is defined.
A global variable "<filename>e</filename>" is defined and
"<filename>e.data</filename>" contains an instance of
"<filename>bb.data</filename>".
With the <filename>getName(e)</filename> method one can get
With the <filename>getName(e)</filename> method, one can get
the name of the triggered event.
</para>
<para>
The above event handler prints the name of the event
and the content of the <filename>FILE</filename> variable.
During a Build, the following common events occur:
During all builds, the following common events occur:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.event.ConfigParsed()</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.event.ParseStarted()</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.event.ParseProgress()</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.event.ParseCompleted()</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.event.BuildStarted()</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.build.TaskStarted()</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.build.TaskInvalid()</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.build.TaskFailedSilent()</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.build.TaskFailed()</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.build.TaskSucceeded()</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.event.BuildCompleted()</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.cooker.CookerExit()</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.event.ConfigParsed()</filename>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.event.ParseStarted()</filename>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.event.ParseProgress()</filename>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.event.ParseCompleted()</filename>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.event.BuildStarted()</filename>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.build.TaskStarted()</filename>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.build.TaskInvalid()</filename>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.build.TaskFailedSilent()</filename>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.build.TaskFailed()</filename>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.build.TaskSucceeded()</filename>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.event.BuildCompleted()</filename>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.cooker.CookerExit()</filename>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
Other events that occur based on specific requests to the server:
Here is a list of other events that occur based on specific requests
to the server:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.event.TreeDataPreparationStarted()</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.event.TreeDataPreparationProgress</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.event.TreeDataPreparationCompleted</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.event.DepTreeGenerated</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.event.CoreBaseFilesFound</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.event.ConfigFilePathFound</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.event.FilesMatchingFound</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.event.ConfigFilesFound</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>bb.event.TargetsTreeGenerated</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.event.TreeDataPreparationStarted()</filename>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.event.TreeDataPreparationProgress</filename>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.event.TreeDataPreparationCompleted</filename>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.event.DepTreeGenerated</filename>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.event.CoreBaseFilesFound</filename>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.event.ConfigFilePathFound</filename>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.event.FilesMatchingFound</filename>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.event.ConfigFilesFound</filename>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<filename>bb.event.TargetsTreeGenerated</filename>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</section>