GitHubActionsAutomationSandbox

Example repo demonstrating different types of automated tasks and CI integrations

Examples Included

• Simple GitHub Actions workflow examples
• ktlint running in CI
• Gradle task to copy a pre-push git hook that validates ktlint
• .gitignore file which allows code styles, scopes, templates, etc to be tracked
• Pull Request template for GitHub
• Bug Report & Feature Issue templates for GitHub
• Danger integration to report APK size
• Danger integration to warn if WIP
• Danger integration to thank PR author
• Danger integration to add inline ktlint issue comments
• Danger integration to warn about missing PR description
• GitHub Actions workflow to check for dependency updates every day at 8:00

Triggering Repository_Dispatch Workflows

Running the following curl command will trigger 2 different workflows:

• triggered_example.yml
• triggerable_tasks.yml

curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.everest-preview+json" \
    -H "Authorization: token <your-token-here>" \
    --request POST \
    --data '{"event_type": "do-something"}' \
    https://api.github.com/repos/n8ebel/GitHubActionsAutomationSandbox/dispatches

With this command, the triggerable_tasks.yml workflow will run, but several of the steps will not run because the repository_dispath event didn't have the required properties passed with it.

To run the full triggerable_tasks.yml workflow, run the following curl command:

curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.everest-preview+json" \
    -H "Authorization: token <your-token-here>" \
    --request POST \
    --data '{"event_type": "do-something", "client_payload": { "text": "a title"}}' \
    https://api.github.com/repos/n8ebel/GitHubActionsAutomationSandbox/dispatches

Triggering Workflow_Dispatch Events

Workflows configured to run in response to workflow_dispatch events may be triggered in 2 ways:

• using the GitHub Actions api
• from the GitHub Actions UI in your repository

To trigger the workflow_dispatch_example.yml workflow, the following curl can be used:

curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.everest-preview+json" \
    -H "Authorization: token <your-token-here>" \
    --request POST \
    --data '{
              "ref": "main",
              "inputs":{
                "input1":"some value",
                "input2":"some value 2"
              }
            }' \
    https://api.github.com/repos/n8ebel/GitHubActionsAutomationSandbox/actions/workflows/workflow_dispatch_example.yml/dispatches

• The ref input corresponds to the branch, tag, or commit you want the workflow to be run on.
• The inputs input corresponds with the inputs defined in the workflow file, and with what is present in the UI when triggering the workflow from GitHub

Resources

• GitHub Actions Marketplace
• GitHub Actions Documentation
• Git Hooks to Enforce Code Quality
• Creating a Pull Request Template for Your Repository
• Closing GitHub Issues With Keywords
• Danger Reference
• Getting Started With Danger
• Automating Code Review Tasks for Multi-Module Android Projects
• Gradle Play Publisher Plugin
• Firebase App Distribution
• Danger Checkstyle Format
• Gradle Versions Plugin