Build Helpers

The following helper functions can be useful in your plan to help you build your package correctly. Attach() specifically is to help with debugging - the other helper functions are to help you in building your package.

attach()

plan.sh only. Attaches your script to an interactive debugging session, which lets you check the state of variables, call arbitrary functions, and turn on higher levels of logging by using the set -x command and switch.

To use attach, add attach to any callback or part of your plan.sh file and the debugging session with start up when hab-plan-build comes to that part in the file.

download_file()

plan.sh only. Downloads a file from a source URL to a local file and uses an optional shasum to determine if an existing file can be used.

download_file <source_url> <local_file> [<shasum>]

If an existing file is present and the third argument is set with a shasum digest, the file will be checked to see if it’s valid. If so, the function ends early and returns 0. Otherwise, the shasums do not match so the file-on-disk is removed and a normal download proceeds as though no previous file existed. This is designed to restart an interrupted download.

Any valid wget URL will work.

Downloads every time, even if the file exists locally:

download_file http://example.com/file.tar.gz file.tar.gz

Downloads if no local file is found:

download_file http://example.com/file.tar.gz file.tar.gz expected_shasum

File matches checksum: download is skipped, local file is used:

download_file http://example.com/file.tar.gz file.tar.gz expected_shasum

File doesn’t match checksum: local file removed, download attempted:

download_file http://example.com/file.tar.gz file.tar.gz mismatching_shasum

Will return 0 if a file was downloaded or if a valid cached file was found.

pkg_path_for()/Get-HabPackagePath

Returns the path for a build or runtime package dependency on stdout from the list of dependencies referenced in pkg_deps or pkg_build_deps. This is useful if you need to install or reference specific dependencies from within a callback, such as do_build() or do_install().

Here’s an example of how to use this function to retrieve the path to the perl binary in the core/perl package:

_perl_path="$(pkg_path_for core/perl)/bin/perl"

fix_interpreter()

plan.sh only. Edits the #! shebang of the target file in-place. This is useful for changing hard-coded paths defined by your source files to the equivalent path in a Chef Habitat package. You must include the required package that provides the expected path for the shebang in pkg_deps. This function performs a greedy match against the specified interpreter in the target file(s).

To use this function in your plan, you must specify the following arguments:

1. The target file or files
2. The name of the package that contains the interpreter
3. The relative directory and binary path to the interpreter

For example, to replace all the files in node_modules/.bin that have #!/usr/bin/env with the coreutils path to bin/env (/hab/pkgs/core/coreutils/8.24/20160219013458/bin/env), you must quote the wildcard target as shown below.

fix_interpreter "node_modules/.bin/*" core/coreutils bin/env

For a single target, reference the file directly:

fix_interpreter node_modules/.bin/concurrent core/coreutils bin/env

pkg_interpreter_for()

plan.sh only. Returns the path for the given package and interpreter by reading it from the INTERPRETERS metadata in the package. The directory of the interpreter needs to be specified, as an interpreter binary might live in bin, sbin, or libexec, depending on the software.

The following shows how to call pkg_interpreter_for with the package and interpreter arguments specified.

pkg_interpreter_for core/coreutils bin/env

This function will return 0 if the specified package and interpreter were found, and 1 if the package could not be found or the interpreter is not specified for that package.

pkg_version()

An optional way to determine the value for $pkg_version. The function must print the computed version string to standard output and will be called when the Plan author invokes the update_pkg_version() helper in a plan.sh or Set-PkgVersion in a plan.ps1.

update_pkg_version()/Set-PkgVersion

Updates the value for $pkg_version by calling a Plan author-provided pkg_version() function. This function must be explicitly called in a Plan in or after the do_before()/Invoke-Before build phase but before the do_prepare()/Invoke-Prepare build phase. The $pkg_version variable will be updated and any other relevant variables will be recomputed. The following examples show how to use these functions to set a dynamic version number.

This plan concatenates a static file in the source root of the project to determine the version in the before phase:

• Bash
• Powershell

pkg_version() {
cat "$SRC_PATH/version.txt"
}

do_before() {
do_default_before
update_pkg_version
}

function pkg_version {
Get-Content "$SRC_PATH/version.txt"
}

Invoke-Before {
Invoke-DefaultBefore
Set-PkgVersion
}

The pkg_version function in this plan dynamically creates a version with a date stamp to format the final version string to standard output. As the downloaded file is required before running the version logic, this helper function is called in the download build phase:

• Bash
• Powershell

pkg_version() {
local build_date

# Extract the build date of the certificates file
build_date=$(cat $HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH/$pkg_filename \
  | grep 'Certificate data from Mozilla' \
  | sed 's/^## Certificate data from Mozilla as of: //')

date --date="$build_date" "+%Y.%m.%d"
}

do_download() {
do_default_download
update_pkg_version
}

function pkg_version {
  # Extract the build date of the certificates file
  $matchStr = "## Certificate data from Mozilla as of: "
  foreach($line in (Get-Content "$HAB_CACHE_SRC_PATH/$pkg_filename")) {
    if($line.StartsWith($matchStr)) {
      $build_date = $line.Substring($matchStr.Length)
    }
  }

  [DateTime]::Parse($build_date).ToString("yyyy.mm.dd")
}

function Invoke-Download {
  Invoke-DefaultDownload
  Set-PkgVersion
}

abspath()

plan.sh only. Return the absolute path for a path, which might be absolute or relative.

exists()

plan.sh only. Checks that the command exists. Returns 0 if it does, 1 if it does not.

build_line()/Write-BuildLine

Print a line of build output. Takes a string as its only argument.

build_line "Checksum verified - ${pkg_shasum}"

warn()/Write-Warning

Print a warning line on stderr. Takes a string as its only argument.

warn "Checksum failed"

debug()/Write-Debug

Prints a line only if the $DEBUG environment value is set to 1. The debug function takes a string as its only argument.

DEBUG=1
debug "Only if things are set"

exit_with()

plan.sh only. Exits the program with an error message and a status code.

exit_with "Something bad happened" 55

trim()

plan.sh only. Trims leading and trailing whitespace characters from a bash variable.

record()

plan.sh only. Takes a session name and command to run as arguments function appends a timestamp to the log file. Alternative to piping build through tee.

# Usage: record <SESSION> [CMD [ARG ...]]
record mysoftware build /src/mysoftware