intellij-updater

This is a small tool that will help you to manage IntelliJ-based IDE version update in a plugin repository.

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Usage

Example

See a live example in AvaloniaRider repository.

Add a following file, intellij-updater.json, to your repository:

{
    "updates": [{
        "file": "gradle/libs.versions.toml",
        "field": "riderSdk",
        "kind": "rider",
        "versionFlavor": "release",
        "versionConstraint": "latestWave",
        "order": "oldest"
    }, {
        "file": "gradle/libs.versions.toml",
        "field": "riderSdkPreview",
        "kind": "rider",
        "versionFlavor": "eap"
    }, {
        "file": "gradle.properties",
        "field": "untilBuildVersion",
        "kind": "rider",
        "versionFlavor": "release",
        "augmentation": "nextMajor"
    }],
    "prBodyPrefix": "## Maintainer Note\n> [!WARNING]\n> This PR will not trigger CI by default. Please **close it and reopen manually** to trigger the CI.\n>\n> Unfortunately, this is a consequence of the current GitHub Action security model (by default, PRs created automatically aren't allowed to trigger other automation)."
}

And then start it periodically on CI and make it generate a PR using any PR-generating action you like, e.g.:

name: "Dependency Checker"
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * *' # Every day
  push:
    branches:
      - main
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - main
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  main:
    permissions:
      contents: write
      pull-requests: write

    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    timeout-minutes: 15
    steps:
      - name: "Check out the sources"
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - id: update
        uses: ForNeVeR/intellij-updater@v1
        name: "Update the dependency versions"
        with:
          config-file: ./intellij-updater.json # the default

      - if: steps.update.outputs.has-changes == 'true' && (github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch')
        name: "Create a PR"
        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v6
        with:
          branch: ${{ steps.update.outputs.branch-name }}
          author: "Automation <your@email>"
          commit-message: ${{ steps.update.outputs.commit-message }}
          title: ${{ steps.update.outputs.pr-title }}
          body-path: ${{ steps.update.outputs.pr-body-path }}

This will perform the following operation every day:

Check the latest versions of Rider available in the JetBrains Maven repository.
Update the riderSdk to the oldest stable Rider version from the latest wave (e.g., if 2024.1, 2024.2.0 and 2024.2.1 are available, it will pick 2024.2.0) and riderSdkPreview to the latest EAP Rider version in the config.toml file.
Update the untilBuildVersion to the next major Rider wave in the gradle.properties file (e.g. if the current in 2024.2 aka 242, then it will be updated to 243.*, for your plugin to be auto-compatible with the next version).
Create a PR with the changes (if started manually or by schedule; otherwise, a "dry run" is performed, where the action checks the validity of the current configuration).

Note

The prBodyPrefix value in this example is added to the pull request title. In this example, we are adding a note for the maintainer to bootstrap the CI manually, because this is one of the current recommendations from the create-pull-request action. This is not inherently required by this action: follow the recommendation of the PR-creating action of your choice.

Configuration

The action itself accepts only one optional parameter: config-file. If not passed, it will default to ./intellij-updater.json.

The configuration file spec:

{
    "updates": [
        {
            "file": "File path relative to this config file's parent directory. Accepts .toml or Java .properties files.",
            "field": "Field in the configuration file. Only field name, no sections or structure. Action includes an extremely simple parser for supported file formats and doesn't support any kind of disambiguation in case there are several identically-named properties.",
            "kind": "kotlin | intellij-idea-community | rider",
            "versionFlavor": "release | eap | nightly",
            "versionConstraint": "<=SomeValidVersion | latestWave",
            "order": "oldest | newest (optional)",
            "augmentation": "optional field, might contain 'nextMajor'"
        }
    ],
    "prBodyPrefix": "optional string"
}

A kind of kotlin will update the corresponding field to the correct Kotlin version used by a particular IDE version, see this table for details.

A more detailed description of the versionFlavor field:

release takes the latest stable IDE version released (no EAP, no preview, no snapshot);
nightly takes the latest possible version, no questions asked;
eap takes the latest numbered EAP version, meaning it won't take 231-EAP-SNAPSHOT from IntelliJ (because these are not numbered).

The point of this is to have a tested PR each time a new EAP IDE version is released, to avoid silent snapshot updates breaking compilation and tests.

versionConstraint is eiter <=SomeValidVersion (e.g. <=2024.1.3) or latestWave. The first one will update the field to the latest version that is less or equal to the specified one. The second one will filter the values to only contain the latest wave (e.g. 2024.2 or 242), automatically switcting to the new one if it is available.

order (newest by default) allows to choose either the newest or the oldest version from the list.

The order in which the filters are work: say, we have a list of versions on the JetBrains CDN. Then,

The versionFlavor filter is applied.
If versionConstraint is latestWave, then it is created based on the filtered version list, to choose the latest wave among the flavor-filtered ones.
The versionConstraint is applied.
A version is chosen from the filtered list based on the order.
If augmentation is present, it is applied to the chosen version.

Parameters

Action's output parameters are documented in the action file itself, check the outputs section.

Notes

Please note that this action installs .NET SDK during its execution. It's recommended to isolate it from other build steps in your CI.

Documentation

License

The project is distributed under the terms of the MIT license (unless a particular file states otherwise).

The license indication in the project's sources is compliant with the REUSE specification v3.2.

ForNeVeR / intellij-updater