Form-in triggers

Example    

All users permitted to edit jobs have been placed in a designated group called jobbers. The following Python script runs p4 group -o jobbers with the -G (Python marshaled objects) flag to determine if the user who triggered the script is in the jobbers group.

import sys, os, marshal

# Configure for your environment
tuser = "triggerman"   # trigger username
job_group = "jobbers"  # Perforce group of users who may edit jobs

# Get trigger input args
user = sys.argv[1]

# Get user list
# Use global -G flag to get output as marshaled Python dictionary
CMD = "p4 -G -u %s -p 1666 group -o %s" % \
        (tuser, job_group)
result = {}
result = marshal.load(os.popen(CMD, 'r'))

job_users = []
for k in result.keys():
        if k[:4] == 'User': # user key format: User0, User1, ...
                u = result[k]
                job_users.append(u)

# Compare current user to job-editing users.
if not user in job_users:
        print "\n\t>>> You don't have permission to edit jobs."
        print "\n\t>>> You must be a member of '%s'.\n" % job_group
        sys.exit(1)
else: # user is in job_group -- OK to create/edit jobs
        sys.exit(0)

This form-in trigger fires on job forms only. To use the trigger, add the following line to the trigger table:

sample8   form-in  job  "python jobgroup.py %user%"

If the user is in the jobbers group, the form-in trigger succeeds, and the changed job is passed to the Helix Core Server for parsing. Otherwise, an error message is displayed, and changes to the job are rejected.