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gradle/develocity-actions

develocity-actions

A collection of composite GitHub Actions related to Develocity


setup-maven action

Features

The action enables three features:

  • Build Summary: Display a summary of the Maven builds as a GitHub workflow summary or as a pull-request comment
  • Develocity extensions injection: Inject Develocity/CCUD Maven extensions
  • Capture Build Scan® data: Capture published Build Scan® links and unpublished Build Scan® data as a workflow artifact per job with prefix build-scan-data-maven, which can then be published in a dependent workflow.

Note

This action can be combined with the maven-publish-build-scan action to publish Build Scan® in a fork context. See the relevant section for details.

Usage

Insert the Setup Maven step once in each job having steps invoking Maven. Make sure to put the step before the Maven invocation.

name: PR Build
jobs:
  build:  
      - name: Setup Maven
        uses: gradle/develocity-actions/setup-maven@v1
      - name: Build with Maven
        run: ./mvnw clean package
[...]

Note

When authenticated access is required to publish a Build Scan®, it is recommended to provide as input develocity-access-key to the setup-maven step. This triggers a request for a short-lived access token instead of relying on the DEVELOCITY_ACCESS_KEY environment variable.


Build Summary

Requirements
  • The Maven project must be compiled with JDK 8 or above
  • The Maven project must have the Develocity extension applied (or injected)

The process is handled by a Maven extension maven-build-scan-capture-extension.jar which is running during each Maven invocation. The extension is automatically registered by configuring the environment MAVEN_OPTS=-Dmaven.ext.classpath=<PATH_TO_EXTENSION>.

Warning

If MAVEN_OPTS environment variable is set in the step invoking the mvn command, the extension won't be registered. Make sure to use MAVEN_OPTS: ${{ env.MAVEN_OPTS }} <EXTRA_PARAMETERS> construction to append the extra parameters and have the extension registered.

Warning

The job name is computed by appending github.job to the current matrix value (if present). This works only when the matrix contains entries defined as single-dimension array. If a matrix entry is an array of objects, the computed job-name can be overridden with the job-name action input to avoid having -object in the job name.

Workflow Summary

By default, a summary will be added to the GitHub workflow calling the action (can be skipped if add-job-summary is set to false):

workflow

Pull-request Comment

By default, a comment will be added to the pull-request with the summary (can be skipped if add-pr-comment is set to false):

comment

Permissions:

The following permissions are required for this feature to work:

  • pull-requests: write: to comment the pull-request

Note

The pull-request comment is overwriting the previous summary comment if present, this means that if several jobs have a setup-maven step, only the last will have its summary commented in the PR. It is recommended to disable the pull-request summary in this case (add-pr-comment: false).

Raw Summary data

Additionally, the summary details will be accessible in $RUNNER_TEMP/build-scan-data-maven/build-metadata.json with the format below:

{
  "prNumber": 42,
  "buildToolType": "maven",
  "builds": [
    {
      "projectId": "maven-project",
      "workflowName": "PR Build",
      "jobName": "test-matrix",
      "buildToolVersion": "3.8.8",
      "requestedTasks": "clean build",
      "buildId": "1701252758489-c27ff62b-3ab5-45f4-b7e4-2b362cf5220e",
      "buildFailure": false,
      "buildTimestamp": "1701252760650",
      "buildScanLink": "https://<DEVELOCITY_URL>/s/itg2ytkifb6wa"
    },
    {
      "projectId": "maven-project",
      "workflowName": "PR Build",
      "jobName": "test-matrix",
      "buildToolVersion": "3.8.8",
      "requestedTasks": "install",
      "buildId": "1701252760831-89e3583d-3c3c-4a64-a958-e61aa791f4f4",
      "buildFailure": true,
      "buildTimestamp": "1701252760800",
      "buildScanLink": "https://<DEVELOCITY_URL>/s/dxqnlj5hgybq4"
    }
  ]
}

Develocity extensions injection

If one wants to inject Develocity Maven Extension (and optionally CCUD Maven Extension), the develocity-injection-enabled input should be set to true. The develocity-url, develocity-maven-extension-version, and optionally develocity-ccud-maven-extension-version inputs should be set accordingly:

name: PR Build
jobs:
  build:  
      - name: Setup Maven
        uses: gradle/develocity-actions/setup-maven@v1
        with:
          develocity-url: 'https://scans.gradle.com'
          develocity-injection-enabled: 'true'
          develocity-maven-extension-version: '<DV_EXTENSION_VERSION>'
      - name: Build with Maven
        run: ./mvnw clean package
[...]

Note

DV_EXTENSION_VERSION needs to be adjusted to the expected version of the Develocity Maven Extension.


Capture Build Scan® data

Requirements
  • The Maven project must be compiled with JDK 8 or above
  • The Maven project must have the Develocity extension applied (or injected)

The process is handled by a Maven extension maven-build-scan-capture-extension.jar which is running during each Maven invocation. The extension is automatically registered by configuring the environment MAVEN_OPTS=-Dmaven.ext.classpath=<PATH_TO_EXTENSION>.

Warning

If MAVEN_OPTS environment variable is set in the step invoking the mvn command, the extension won't be registered. Make sure to use MAVEN_OPTS: ${{ env.MAVEN_OPTS }} <EXTRA_PARAMETERS> construction to append the extra parameters and have the extension registered.

Configuration

The capture strategy can be customized:

  • ALWAYS: default behavior, capture will be attempted on each Maven invocation
  • ON_FAILURE: capture will be attempted only on failed builds
  • ON_DEMAND: capture will be attempted if CAPTURE_BUILD_SCAN=true in the environment

The capture can be enabled/disabled separately:

  • capture-unpublished-build-scans: to disable unpublished Build Scan® capture
  • capture-build-scan-links: to disable Build Scan® link capture

The captured files are added as workflow artifact (one artifact per job).

When a Build Scan link is captured, it is added as output to the step invoking Maven. The output name is build-scan-url and can be used in subsequent steps of the workflow.

Event Triggers:

  • pull_request: To capture unpublished Build Scan®
  • workflow_run: To capture Build Scan® links

Action inputs

Name Description Default
develocity-access-key Optional: Develocity access key. Should be set to a secret containing the Develocity Access key ``
develocity-token-expiry Optional: Develocity short-lived access tokens expiry in hours 2
capture-strategy Optional: Build Scan capture strategy (ALWAYS, ON_FAILURE, ON_DEMAND) ALWAYS
capture-unpublished-build-scans Optional: Enable unpublished Build Scans capture true
capture-build-scan-links Optional: Enable Build Scan links capture true
job-name Optional: Job name (used in summary and as artifact suffix)
add-pr-comment Optional: Comment the pull-request with Build Scan links true
add-job-summary Optional: Add a summary to the GitHub workflow true
add-project-id-in-job-summary Optional: Add project id to the job summary / comment false
develocity-injection-enabled Optional: Whether to enable or not Develocity/CCUD Maven Extensions injection
develocity-url Optional: Develocity server URL
develocity-maven-extension-version Optional: Develocity Maven Extension version to be injected
develocity-ccud-maven-extension-version Optional: Common Custom User Data Maven Extension version to be injected
develocity-allow-untrusted-server Optional: Whether to allow communicating with untrusted server
develocity-enforce-url Optional: Whether to enforce the URL over any defined locally to the project
develocity-capture-file-fingerprints Optional: Whether to enable/disable capturing of file fingerprints. This setting is enabled by default
develocity-custom-develocity-maven-extension-coordinates Optional: Will not inject the Develocity Maven extension if an extension with provided coordinates is found (value is an artifactId of the extension)
develocity-custom-ccud-extension-coordinates Optional: Will not inject the CCUD extension if an extension with provided coordinates is found (value is an artifactId of the extension)

maven-publish-build-scan action

Publish Build Scans® for pull-requests issued from forked repositories

Description

When submitting a pull request from a forked GitHub repository, a GitHub workflow that validates the change cannot publish a Build Scan® as workflows from forked repositories do not have access to secrets. An access token is required to publish a Build Scan®.

Note

The Approve and Run manual step documented here must be enabled on the GitHub repository configuration to meet legal requirements (this is the default configuration).

Maven workflow

Architecture

Architecture

Usage

In the GitHub workflow called to validate a pull-request, insert the Setup Maven step once in each job having steps invoking Maven.

name: PR Build
jobs:
  build:  
      - name: Setup Maven
        uses: gradle/develocity-actions/setup-maven@v1
      - name: Build with Maven
        run: ./mvnw clean package
[...]

Add a new GitHub workflow to publish the Build Scans® saved during the previous step

name: Upload Build Scans

on:
  workflow_run:
    workflows: [ "PR Build" ]
    types: [ completed ]

jobs:

  publish-build-scans:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      actions: write
      pull-requests: write
    steps:
      - name: Setup Build Scan link capture
        uses: gradle/develocity-actions/setup-maven@v1
      - name: Publish Build Scans
        uses: gradle/develocity-actions/maven-publish-build-scan@v1
        with:
          develocity-url: 'https://<MY_DEVELOCITY_URL>'
          develocity-access-key: ${{ secrets.<DEVELOCITY_ACCESS_KEY> }}

Note

Some parameters need to be adjusted here:

  • The workflow name (here PR Build) triggered when a pull-request is submitted
  • The Develocity URL (here https://<MY_DEVELOCITY_URL>)
  • The secret name holding the Develocity access key (here <DEVELOCITY_ACCESS_KEY>)

Implementation details

The action will download any saved Build Scan® and publish them to Develocity.

The list of pull-request authors allowed to publish a Build Scan® can be specified by the csv parameter authorized-users-list. The action will publish Build Scans® if the initial pull-request author belongs to the list or if the list is empty.

Event Triggers:

  • workflow_run: to run after the build workflow. This event allows access to the repository secrets (Develocity Access Key) which is required to publish a Build Scan® to Develocity when authentication is enabled.

Permissions:

The following permissions are required for this action to operate:

  • actions: write: to delete a workflow artifact

Action inputs

Name Description Default
develocity-url Develocity URL
develocity-access-key Optional: Develocity access key
develocity-allow-untrusted Optional: Develocity allow-untrusted flag false
authorized-users-list Optional: CSV List of users allowed to publish Build Scans ''
github-token Optional: Github token ${{ github.token }}

Build the action

npm run all

Release the action

  • Push the new version as a tag:
git tag vX.Y
git push origin vX.Y
  • Empty the release notes in release/changelog.md and push the change to prepare for next development iteration