grunt-github-update-status v0.0.2

Send build status from your CI pipeline or automated tools through the GitHub API to individual commit refs on github.com

(You want this)

Readme formatting borrowed shamelessly from grunt-contrib-copy

Getting Started

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-github-update-status --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-github-update-status');

This plugin was designed to work with Grunt 0.4.x. If you're still using grunt v0.3.x it's strongly recommended that you upgrade, but in case you can't please use v0.3.2.

GitHub Update Status task

Run this task with the grunt github-update-status command.

Data

Formatting the task configuration for github-status-update follows one of two methods:

module.exports = {
  myTask: {
    status: 'pending',
    targetUrl: 'http://some.place/here/is',
    description: 'This test hasn\'t run yet.',
    context: 'test',
    options: {
      commitSha: '0ccff57f4fab07b1e6da18aa96227cbebd8d2563',
      token: 'MY GITHUB TOKEN IS A SECRET!',
      user: 'BirdTho',
      repo: 'grunt-github-update-status'
    }
  }
}

-or-

module.exports = {
  myTask: {
    updates: [
      {
        status: 'success',
        targetUrl: 'https://app.codeship.com/projects/<project id>/builds/<build id>?step=build',
        description: 'The build was completed successfully in 254 seconds!',
        context: 'build',
      },
      {
        status: 'pending',
        targetUrl: 'https://app.codeship.com/projects/<project id>/builds/<build id>?step=test',
        description: 'This test hasn\'t run yet.',
        context: 'test',
      }
    ],
    options: {
      commitSha: '0ccff57f4fab07b1e6da18aa96227cbebd8d2563',
      token: 'MY GITHUB TOKEN IS A SECRET!',
      user: 'BirdTho',
      repo: 'grunt-github-update-status'
    }
  }
}

Arguments

A Note:

You will notice most of these string components also accept a Function():string. If you want, you can provide a function that returns a string. This makes the task more flexible as you could synchronously check a file for test output, or check a global variable for elapsed time. You could even check test pass/fail and then update a status to failure or success depending.

Single update

See also GitHub Status API V3 Docs for a better description of the following:

status

Type: string | Function():string

This parameter is mandatory for any status. It is a status of the whole commit's progress or of a named context. Legal values are 'pending', 'error', 'failure', and 'success'

context

Type: string | Function():string

Default: undefined

Optional.

This can differentiate statuses based on process or origin of status. Not required. e.g. "codeship/test" vs "security pro 3000/audit" or just "build" or "test"

targetUrl

Type: string | Function():string

Default: undefined

Optional.

If provided, supplying this targetUrl with a valid URL will make it possible to link back to the original site or service that generated the status message. Useful shortcut!

description

Type: string | Function():string

Default: undefined

Optional.

Useful flavor text for providing details about the status. Options may include % of test coverage, build time, or reason for failure

Multiple updates

Same as the rules for a single update, but as in the second example above, multiple updates are encapsulated as objects in an array like so:

Because remember, you can have multiple contexts for a single commit ref through rhe GitHub API.

updates: [
  {
    status: 'pending',
    targetUrl: function () {
      return 'https://app.codeship.com/projects/' +
        process.env.CI_PROJECT_ID + '/builds/' +
        process.env.CI_BUILD_ID + '?step=test';
    },
    description: 'The testinating is about to commence.',
    context: 'tests'
  },
  {
    ...another status, description, 
       targetUrl, context here...
  },
  {...}
]

Options

token

Type: string Function():string

Default: process.env.GITHUB_TOKEN

Totally required.

This is passed to the instance of NPM github-api in order to connect to your GitHub account You will likely want to set up a GitHub token with repo permissions, especially repo:status

If it is not provided, this task will automatically check yor environment variables for GITHUB_TOKEN

See Creating a Personal Access Token in GitHub help docs

commitSha

Type: string Function():string

Default: Whatever git rev-parse HEAD returns. I would assume the task is running against the same commit

user

Type: string Function():string

Default: undefined

Required.

Surely there may be a way to suss it out from the Git CLI by parsing the upstream origin endpoint. But you can do that. For this repo, the user would be BirdTho, just as the path to this repo is

https://github.com/BirdTho/grunt-github-update-status`
https://github.com/<user>/<repo>

repo

Type: string or Function():string
Default: undefined

Required.

Same as user above, except the name of the repository. Look at the above github user/repo example.

Task submitted by Christopher Thomas

History:

• 0.0.1 It was releaseded!
• 0.0.2 Grunt tasks need to go in the tasks/ subfolder, supposedly!