Catching console application output and sending it to SharePoint

I recently had to create a wrapper around an existing console application to catch its output. This output had to be sent to a SharePoint list. The console application itself was used to sync files created by SharePoint and stored on a file share to a UNIX system.

1. Use the following code to start your ‘syncing’ console application and catch the output

   1: // Run RSync and capture output

   2: Process p = new Process();

   3:  

   4: // Redirect the output stream of the child process.

   5: p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;

   6: p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;

   7: p.StartInfo.FileName = args[0];

   8: p.Start();

   9:  

  10: // Read the output stream first and then wait.

  11: string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();

  12: p.WaitForExit();

2. Write the output to a SharePoint custom list

   1: // Write output to target SharePoint log site. Should be the same as the regular KB site where the 'Logging' list is present

   2: ListsWs.Lists ls = new ListsWs.Lists();

   3: ls.Url = wsUrl + "_vti_bin/lists.asmx";

   4: ls.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

   5:  

   6: XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

   7: XmlElement batch_element = doc.CreateElement("Batch");

   8: string item = "<Method ID=\"1\" Cmd=\"New\">" + 

   9:     "<Field Name=\"ID\">New</Field>" + 

  10:     "<Field Name=\"Title\">RSync Wrapper</Field>" + 

  11:     "<Field Name=\"Message\">" + output + "</Field>" + 

  12:     "</Method>";

  13: batch_element.InnerXml = item;

  14: ls.UpdateListItems("Logging", batch_element);