# Perforce Graph Setup Guide

This guide covers the setup and configuration of a Perforce Graph or Hybrid environment in Jenkins.  It assumes an
understanding of Perforce workspace Views, Graph repository setup and permission management. 

## Additional Requirements

* Helix Versioning Engine 2017.1 or greater.
* Minimum Graph Permission of `read` on Graph Repos for the Jenkins user.

## Graph Populate

Graph can populate files using a Jenkins Freestyle or Pipeline job, although some options are restricted.  MultiBranch
is also supported, but only for individual repositories and not for a mix of Classic or Stream paths.  The following
setup guide uses a Jenkins Freestyle Job for the example.  

Populating a Workspace with a Graph repository requires a regular Perforce Password or Perforce Ticket credential, 
however the Perforce server must be 2017.1 or greater.

![Graph credentials](images/graph/1-graph-config-credentials.png)

Graph can use any Workspace mode; this example uses the Manual Workspace option to easily show the Workspace View. 
The example below maps a Graph repository `//graph/p4-plugin` and a Streams path `//p4-perl/main` into the
workspace.

![Graph workspace](images/graph/2-graph-config-workspace.png)

For Jenkins to populate a workspace containing one or more Graph repositories the `Graph force clean and sync` option
must be used.  Currently reconcile options are not fully supported by Graph, and only the force clean option with the 
population of the have list is supported.

![Graph populate](images/graph/3-graph-config-populate.png)

Once your Jenkins Freestyle or Pipeline Job is configured with a Graph repository, you can build, poll or trigger 
builds as normal.  The build summary will show the Graph repository and associated SHA instead of a Perforce
changelist number.

![Graph build](images/graph/4-graph-build.png)

You can view the Graph commit details and see the files in the commit.  Linking a Repository Browser is supported, 
however Swarm currently does not view Graph repository files or their history.

![Graph files](images/graph/5-graph-files.png)

When using a Graph repository you will see an additional 'classic' sync before the graph repository syncs, this 
allows hybrid paths to be pinned at a label or change in addition to the graph repositories being synced.

You will see extra `p4 graph` commands in the log for reporting the commit details and recording the commits 
included in the build.

![Graph log](images/graph/6-graph-log.png)

If you have a Hybrid view containing a classic or streams path along with a Graph repository, the Jenkins build will
report both changes (assuming that both paths had changes), this is also true for polling events.  Below is an example
of a build with a change to a stream and graph repository:

![Hybrid build](images/graph/7-hybrid-build.png)

An example showing the detailed view of changed files in the Stream Changelist and Graph Commit:

![Hybrid files](images/graph/8-hybrid-files.png)

... and associated log output:

![Hybrid log](images/graph/9-hybrid-log.png)