Question

I am not an expert in P4.NET plugin, but I would like to show the existing workspaces for a user in a combo box, so that I can set the p4.Client to the selected workspace.

using (var p4 = new P4Connection())
            {
                p4.Connect();
                ???               
            }

How do I get the list of existing workspaces?
I think the command line to achieve this would be

p4 clients -m 100 -u username

Answer 1

Ok I have no choice than answering my own question, because the code would be too much to insert as comments to jhwist answer. Sorry jhwist. I had no choice.

@appinger, I hope you find this answer helpful. Took me hours to figure out this api working. 🙂

cmbBoxPerforceWorkspaceLocation is just your combobox for your workspaces. I am using Winforms by the way.

I need to extract a shortname from the windows username. Windows username starts usually with xxxx\\username. In my code I extract the username out of the longname and save it as shortname. If your network is set differently this code might have to change accordingly.

Let me know if it worked for you.

using (var p4 = new P4Connection())
            {
                p4.Connect();
                var longName = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name;
                var shortname = longName.Substring(longName.IndexOf("\\") + 1);
                var records = p4.Run("clients", "-u", shortname);

                cmbBoxPerforceWorkspaceLocation.Items.Clear();

                foreach (P4Record record in records.Records)
                {
                    cmbBoxPerforceWorkspaceLocation.Items.Add(record["client"]);
                }
            }