Automating Review Requests with ReviewBoard and Mercurial using Python hooks

Question

Here is my problem:

I got a remote mercurial repository where the hook is gonna be setup either incoming or changegroup, and I got a ReviewBoard setup on a different ser

Answer 1

Not sure if this is quite what you need, but this is something I use for executing a commit message check in pretty much the same circumstances, it has to check each change and verify information based on the user. In the same way I need to check the user the changelist is for, not the 'pushing' user. It should be fairly easy to do something like build up the sets of changes for a particular user and the start and end revisions in 'chunks' whilst looping through the changes in the changegroup.

The return is because it is used as a pretxnchangegroup hook

def checkAllCommitMessage(ui, repo, node, **kwargs):
    """    
    Checks all inbound changeset messages from a push for adherence to the commit message rules.
    """

    # for each change being submitted
    # get all the details, and call the trigger
    fail = False

    for rev in xrange(repo[node].rev(), len(repo)):
        # get context (change)
        ctx = repo[rev]

        # user who commited the change (NOT necessarily the one who is doing push)
        user = ctx.user()

        # do the hook stuff here...
        # set fail to True if something goes wrong

    return fail