I want to create a new branch in perforce with python and I used: self._p4.run("branch", name) but, every time I used that, automatically it's open an editor to insert the mapping.
My question is if it's any way to create a new branch without open the editor and in the perfect world I can pass the mapping as a list of strings.
Thank you!
In P4Python you can edit specs via the fetch_spec and save_spec methods:
https://www.perforce.com/perforce/r14.2/manuals/p4script/python.p4.html#python.p4.fetch_spectype https://www.perforce.com/perforce/r14.2/manuals/p4script/python.p4.html#python.p4.save_spectype
which are equivalent to p4 <spec> -o and p4 <spec> -i, but they convert the spec to and from a dictionary to make it easier to manipulate. Creating a branch spec would look something like:
branch = p4.fetch_branch(name)
branch["View"] = ["//depot/main/... //depot/"+name+"/..."]
p4.save_branch(branch)
If you want to control the mapping yourself, and avoid the editor, you just need to use p4 branch -i and pass the already-filled-in form yourself.
So, for example:
p4 branch -o name > branchData.txt to generate the branch form into a temporary filep4 branch -i < branchData.txt to load your branch data into the Perforce server and create the new branch spec in the server.Of course, you don't really need to do step (1) if your program already knows how it wants to set up the branch spec data. Just put your desired branch spec data into a file and run p4 branch -i with stdin redirected to that file. Or, even, you can just feed your form data directly from your program into p4 branch -i since it's just reading from stdin.
