// Copyright 2014 The Bazel Authors. All rights reserved. // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. // You may obtain a copy of the License at // // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 // // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and // limitations under the License. package com.google.devtools.build.lib.actions; import com.google.devtools.build.lib.actions.extra.ExtraActionInfo; import com.google.devtools.build.lib.concurrent.ThreadSafety.ConditionallyThreadCompatible; import com.google.devtools.build.lib.profiler.Describable; import com.google.devtools.build.lib.vfs.Path; import com.google.devtools.build.skyframe.SkyFunction; import java.io.IOException; import javax.annotation.Nullable; /** * An Action represents a function from Artifacts to Artifacts executed as an atomic build step. * Examples include compilation of a single C++ source file, or linking a single library. * *
All subclasses of Action need to follow a strict set of invariants to ensure correctness on * incremental builds. In our experience, getting this wrong is a lot more expensive than any * benefits it might entail. * *
Use {@link com.google.devtools.build.lib.analysis.actions.SpawnAction} or {@link * com.google.devtools.build.lib.analysis.actions.FileWriteAction} where possible, and avoid writing * a new custom subclass. * *
These are the most important requirements for subclasses: *
These constraints are not easily enforced or tested for (e.g., ActionTester only checks that a * known set of fields is covered, not that all fields are covered), so carefully check all changes * to action subclasses. */ public interface Action extends ActionExecutionMetadata, Describable { /** * Prepares for executing this action; called by the Builder prior to * executing the Action itself. This method should prepare the file system, so * that the execution of the Action can write the output files. At a minimum * any pre-existing and write protected output files should be removed or the * permissions should be changed, so that they can be safely overwritten by * the action. * * @throws IOException if there is an error deleting the outputs. */ void prepare(Path execRoot) throws IOException; /** * Executes this action; called by the Builder when all of this Action's * inputs have been successfully created. (Behaviour is undefined if the * prerequisites are not up to date.) This method actually does the work * of the Action, unconditionally; in other words, it is invoked by the * Builder only when dependency analysis has deemed it necessary.
* *The framework guarantees that the output directory for each file in
* getOutputs()
has already been created, and will check to
* ensure that each of those files is indeed created.
Implementations of this method should try to honour the {@link * java.lang.Thread#interrupted} contract: if an interrupt is delivered to * the thread in which execution occurs, the action should detect this on a * best-effort basis and terminate as quickly as possible by throwing an * ActionExecutionException. * *
Action execution must be ThreadCompatible in order to be safely used * with a concurrent Builder implementation such as ParallelBuilder. * * @param actionExecutionContext Services in the scope of the action, like the output and error * streams to use for messages arising during action execution. * @throws ActionExecutionException if execution fails for any reason. * @throws InterruptedException */ @ConditionallyThreadCompatible void execute(ActionExecutionContext actionExecutionContext) throws ActionExecutionException, InterruptedException; /** * Returns true iff action must be executed regardless of its current state. * Default implementation can be overridden by some actions that might be * executed unconditionally under certain circumstances - e.g., if caching of * test results is not requested, this method could be used to force test * execution even if all dependencies are up-to-date. * *
Note, it is very important not to abuse this method, since it * completely overrides dependency checking. Any use of this method must * be carefully reviewed and proved to be necessary. * *
Note that the definition of {@link #isVolatile} depends on the
* definition of this method, so be sure to consider both methods together
* when making changes.
*/
boolean executeUnconditionally();
/**
* Returns true if it's ever possible that {@link #executeUnconditionally}
* could evaluate to true during the lifetime of this instance, false
* otherwise.
*/
boolean isVolatile();
/**
* Method used to find inputs before execution for an action that
* {@link ActionExecutionMetadata#discoversInputs}. Returns null if action's inputs will be
* discovered during execution proper.
*/
@Nullable
Iterable Any deps requested here must not change unless one of the action's inputs changes.
* Otherwise, changes to nodes that should cause re-execution of actions might be prevented by the
* action cache.
*/
@Nullable
Iterable Method must be redefined for any action that may return inputsKnown() == false.
*
* The method is allowed to return source artifacts. They are useless, though, since exec paths
* in the action cache referring to source artifacts are always resolved.
*/
Iterable As this method is called from the ExtraAction, make sure it is ok to call this method from
* a different thread than the one this action is executed on.
*/
ExtraActionInfo.Builder getExtraActionInfo();
}