You can do this in the Workspace View (Manual Workspace) or 'checkout' step in the DSL.

Or are you talking about polling filters?

Would also be good if we could have nested wildcards. For example:

//depot/..../bin/...

Requires map code improvments in P4Java.

I'm not clear on how you'd like to implement it with p4java, but I've been using a private fork with this small hack to PollTask.java since July and it meets our needs for a single `...` wildcard embedded within the path (ex. "//depot/path/....java"):

	boolean isFileInViewMask = false;
	String p = s.getDepotPathString();
	for (String maskPath : viewMask.split("\n")) {
-		if (p.startsWith(maskPath)) {
+
+		// If there is a '...' wildcard
+		String[] maskPathParts = maskPath.split("[.]{3}");
+		if(maskPathParts.length == 2 && p.startsWith(maskPathParts[0]) && p.endsWith(maskPathParts[1])) {
+			isFileInViewMask = true;
+		} else if (p.startsWith(maskPath)) {
 			isFileInViewMask = true;
 		}

Hi Brian, thank you for sharing the code snippet.  That would work for most customers and I am tempted to merge that into the code for the time being.   To fully support the Perforce mapping we would need to include exclusionary mappings , overlay mappings , multiple '...' and '*' wild cards, and possibly '%%n' mappings.  The other derived APIs inherit this from the C++ API, but p4java is native and we would need to implement the map code in full.

++Usage case - Need to exclude changes that include *.inf files. For example not trigger the build if it matches:

//depot/MyProject/....inf

NOTE FOR DEVELOPERS: Is this now possible with the new map code in P4JAVA?

Usage case:  excluding all 32 bit platform changes. Given paths:

   //depot/project1/main/NTX86/...

   //depot/project1/main/NTX64/...

   //depot/project1/main/Linux86/...

   //depot/project1/main/Linux64/...

Want to use the filters:

//depot/project1/main/*86/...

Usage case from JENKINS-66195

following view filer definition:
//depot/subdirectory-//.../*.txt
filters out all *.txt files as irrelevant changes (that do not trigger build in jenkins).
If changelist consists of only "//depot/subdirectory/docs/readme.txt" file, it would not trigger build

Start of a potential solution in - JENKINS-66195

See proposed code solution in JENKINS-66195