Getting published ids from parent items in the publish tree - multipublish2

sam.swift-glasman · October 9, 2019, 12:30am

Hi all
I have some chained publish items and I need to extract the publish data from an already published parent item which will affect the publish of my current item. How can I get that info? Id ect

many thanks!

philip.scadding · October 9, 2019, 10:41am

Hi Sam

Here are some methods on the PublishItem that I think will help you achieve what you are after.

Make sure the plugin running in the parent item store’s it’s result to the properties of the item so that you can retrieve the value in your downstream publish plugin - https://developer.shotgunsoftware.com/tk-multi-publish2/api.html#tk_multi_publish2.api.PublishItem.properties
This three method should help you when navigating the item hierarchy. The parent property is the one that will most likely be needed, but I thought it was worth mentioning the other two.
https://developer.shotgunsoftware.com/tk-multi-publish2/api.html#tk_multi_publish2.api.PublishItem.children

https://developer.shotgunsoftware.com/tk-multi-publish2/api.html#tk_multi_publish2.api.PublishItem.parent

https://developer.shotgunsoftware.com/tk-multi-publish2/api.html#tk_multi_publish2.api.PublishItem.is_root

Does that help?

Thanks
Phil

sam.swift-glasman · October 9, 2019, 11:11am

Hi Phil

Thanks for your response, I am ok with navigating the publish tree
It is more a case of knowing which specific properties are returned after a publish
So I can grab the shotgun id for the published file entity of the parent publish

It’s a little tricky to interrogate this interactively as this is all handled by the base publisher
many thanks!
Sam

sam.swift-glasman · October 9, 2019, 1:05pm

please disregard - I logged the parent properties and found the info I needed:

for future ref:
a property called sg_publish_data contains the publish file info

many thanks

philip.scadding · October 9, 2019, 1:12pm

Nice find!
There isn’t a specific list of standard properties, it depends on what the plugin decides to store.
The property you found is getting set in this hook:

github.com

shotgunsoftware/tk-multi-publish2/blob/master/hooks/publish_file.py#L426


        "action_show_more_info": {
            "label": "Publish Data",
            "tooltip": "Show the complete Publish data dictionary",
            "text": "<pre>%s</pre>" % (pprint.pformat(publish_data),)
        }
    }
)


# create the publish and stash it in the item properties for other
# plugins to use.
item.properties.sg_publish_data = sgtk.util.register_publish(
    **publish_data)
self.logger.info("Publish registered!")
self.logger.debug(
    "Shotgun Publish data...",
    extra={
        "action_show_more_info": {
            "label": "Shotgun Publish Data",
            "tooltip": "Show the complete Shotgun Publish Entity dictionary",
            "text": "<pre>%s</pre>" % (pprint.pformat(item.properties.sg_publish_data),)
        }

sam.swift-glasman · October 9, 2019, 1:21pm

excellent thanks Phil!