How to get the contributing activity details on integration stream? - clearcase

Question

I need help in knowing how to get the details of when a particular contributing activity is delivered to integration stream.
I used to use diffbl -activity baseline1 baseline2 in cleartool to get the list of activities made from one baseline to another baseline.
Now the new need is that i need to get the date time of when some of the activities listed as an output of diffbl are delivered.
I tried using lsact, describe but i am getting the "Activity not found" error.
Probably because the activity I am querying at is a contributing activity.
Could somebody know how to get the date time of when a contributing activity is delivered or how to customize the output of "diffbl -activity baseline1 baseline2" to get the activity date time details as well?.

Answer 1

When I look at the cleartool diffbl man page, I don't see any formatting option.
That means you need to parse the result of that command, feeding each activity to a cleartool describe -fmt, using one of the fmt_ccase option to display what you want.
This thread gives you an idea of the process to follow, but it is in bash (unix), to be adapted for windows if you need it:
for act in $(ct diffbl -act bl1#/vobs/apvob bl2#/vobs/apvob | grep ">>" | grep -v "deliver." | cut -f2 -d " "); do echo "Activity: $act"; cleartool desc -fmt "%d\n" activity:$act; echo; done
In multiple line for readibility:
for act in $(ct diffbl -act bl1#/vobs/apvob bl2#/vobs/apvob
| grep ">>"
| grep -v "deliver."
| cut -f2 -d " ");
do
echo "Activity: $act"; cleartool desc -fmt "%d\n" activity:$act; echo;
done
Note that by excluding "deliver." activities, we are focusing only on contributing activities, as explained in "How to find files asssociated with a ClearCase UCM activity?".
The OP Lax reports having successfully managed to extract the names of the activities, with a:
desc -fmt "%Nd\n" "activity:myActivityId"
(#\pvob being already part of the result of the diffbl command. Lax is just parsing the activityid from the diffbl results and putting it to desc command)
He adds:
I am needing this in the context of C#, so parsing is just like parsing any other string: I am using a regex to seperate the output to my interested activities. ex:
Regex.Matches(diffBlOutput, "myInterestedPattern");
And for each match in regex result, I get the activity with
RegexMatch.Groups["activity"].ToString()
activityid is actually a substring of this string as the result is always "activtyid activityName" so, substring(0,result.indexOf(' ')); gets me the activity id.