Can I abuse the cache this way?

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1

I’ve built some code into my project that runs benchmarks and saves the data (in a .csv file) and generates a couple of charts, to show historical trends.

It’s easy enough to run this with some tweaks to circle.yml.

However, I really want the changes to the .csv file to persist build to build.

Is this something I can do by adding the directory containing the .csv file as a cache directory?

2

Reviewing the docs, I can see that ache is saved before the test phase, which is wrong for me. I think I need an entirely new concept to make this work.

3

The caching feature doesn’t sound like something you should use. What kind of data are you working with exactly? Our Test Metadata might be useful to you.

Aside from that, I would consider saving these CSV files in the one of the following locations:

  • in the git repo itself
  • in another git repo
  • AWS S3 bucket
  • metrics SaaS such as Datadog