Coding Questions: (GSoC) Artifact Promotion Plugin for Pipeline

[prastik Gyawali]

Hi all!

I am currently working on detaching the required modules/extensions from the promoted-builds-plugin for a new plugin as proposed.

However, I have the following questions:

1) I assume that the entire promotion process starts from PromotionCondition abstract class and the flow goes like:

     PromotionCondition -> PromotionProcess -> Actual Conditions(Manual,Self...) -> PromotionProcess.....

     After listing all the conditions in the DescribableList how do we actually match the input parameter for promotion to the exact class(eg: if user wants manual promotion, how does the         plugin send the build/other information to the exact class(self,manual.java.....) for further processing?  )

I found the getPromotionCondition method to be close. But this method is not called anywhere in the conditions.? 

  public PromotionCondition getPromotionCondition(String promotionClassName) {

        for (PromotionCondition condition : conditions) {

            if (condition.getClass().getName().equals(promotionClassName)) {

                return condition;

            }

        }

        return null;

    }

2) Also if the flow is incorrect please help rectify it. And after the respective promotion modules are called is:

public Future<Promotion> considerPromotion2

used for the final promotion.

Thank You!!

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