lcdsmao / releases-hub-gradle-plugin

Gradle Plugin to automatically upgrade your gradle project dependencies and send a GitHub pull request with the changes

Releases Hub Gradle Plugin

Gradle Plugin to automatically upgrade your java gradle project dependencies and send a GitHub pull request with the changes.

How it works

1. Apply and configure the plugin according to your needs
2. Invoke the upgradeDependencies task on your CI tool (daily, weekly, monthly, as you wish)
3. If any of your dependencies is out-of-date, the plugin will create a pull request to update it.
4. Verify that your PR CI checks pass, scan the included release notes, perform manual tests, and merge the PR.

Features

• Automatic Pull Request creation, including useful information whenever available:
  • new version release notes link
  • library documentation link
  • library source code link
  • library issue tracker link
  • library size
  • new permissions added by the library (only for android libraries)
• Support to configure which dependencies include and exclude, where to find their definitions, how many pull requests create and more.
• Support any java based project using Gradle.

Setup

Add the following configuration to your root build.gradle, replacing X.Y.Z by the latest version

Using the plugins DSL:

plugins {
  id "com.releaseshub.gradle.plugin" version "X.Y.Z"
}

Using legacy plugin application:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral() // or gradlePluginPortal()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("com.releaseshub:releases-hub-gradle-plugin:X.Y.Z")
    }
}
    
apply plugin: "com.releaseshub.gradle.plugin"

How to configure the properties

All the plugin configuration properties can be added using any of the following ways:

• Using the releasesHub extension on the build.gradle. For example:

releasesHub {
    gitHubWriteToken = "123"
}

• As a command line parameter. For example:

./gradlew listDependencies -PgitHubWriteToken=123

• As a property on a gradle.properties file. For example:

gitHubWriteToken = "123"

• As an extra property on the build.gradlee. For example:

ext.gitHubWriteToken = "123"

• As a System Environment property

Common Properties

Dependencies base path

The base path for the class names where the dependencies are defined. The default value is buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/. This property is required

dependenciesBasePath = "buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/"

Dependencies class names

The class names where the dependencies are defined. The default value is ["Libs.kt", "BuildLibs.kt"]. This property is required

dependenciesClassNames = ["Libs.kt", "BuildLibs.kt"]

Includes

The dependencies to include. You can define a groupId to match all the artifacts for that group id, or groupId:artifactId to match a particular artifact. By default all the dependencies found on dependenciesClassNames are included.

includes = ["com.groupid1", "com.groupid2:artifact1"]

Excludes

The dependencies to exclude. You can define a groupId to match all the artifacts for that group id, or groupId:artifactId to match a particular artifact. By default there aren't excluded dependencies.

excludes = ["com.groupid1", "com.groupid2:artifact1"]

If you need to exclude the Gradle upgrade, use "gradle". For example:

excludes = ["gradle"]

Versioning

This project uses the Semantic Versioning guidelines for transparency into our release cycle.

Usage

We suggest to define your dependencies on /buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/Libs.kt and /buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/BuildLibs.kt classes. For example:

Libs.kt

object Libs {
    const val KOTLIN = "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.3.40"
}

BuildLibs.kt

object BuildLibs {
    const val KOTLIN_PLUGIN = "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.3.41"
}

Root build.gradle

apply plugin: "kotlin"
apply plugin: "com.releaseshub.gradle.plugin"

buildscript {
    dependencies {
        classpath(BuildLibs.KOTLIN_PLUGIN)
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile(Libs.KOTLIN)
}

See the sample for more details.

Tasks

Validate dependencies

Validate all the dependencies. The following validations are executed:

• All the dependencies defined on each dependenciesClassNames are sorted alphabetically by groupId:artifactId
• There are not duplicated dependencies defined on each dependenciesClassNames
• There are not dependencies with snapshot or dynamic versions assigned
• There are dependencies on dependenciesClassNames but not used on the project
• There are declared dependencies on any build.gradle but not defined on dependenciesClassNames classes

./gradlew validateDependencies

Properties

Unused Excludes

The dependencies to exclude from the unused validation. You can define a groupId to match all the artifacts for that group id, or groupId:artifactId to match a particular artifact. By default there aren't excluded dependencies.

unusedExcludes = ["com.groupid1", "com.groupid2:artifact1"]

Unused extensions to search

The file extensions of the files where the artifact's packages will we search to find unused dependendencies. By default [".kt", ".java", ".xml"]

unusedExtensionsToSearch = [".kt", ".java"]

List dependencies

Print all the dependencies that will be analyzed to upgrade.

./gradlew listDependencies

List dependencies to upgrade

Print all the dependencies that are upgradeable. A file build/releasesHub/dependencies_to_upgrade_count.txt is generated with the count of dependencies that are upgradeable. This could be useful for metrics.

./gradlew listDependenciesToUpgrade

Upgrade dependencies

This task creates a Github Pull Request for each groupId that have at least one dependency to upgrade.

The following steps are executed for each groupId:

• Creates the headBranch (headBranchPrefix + groupId) (if not exists)
• Merge from the baseBranch to the headBranch
• Upgrade all the dependencies defined on the dependenciesClassNames for the groupId
• Create a commit for each dependency upgraded
• Push the previous commits to the headBranch
• Create a GitHub pull request from the headBranch to the baseBranch

./gradlew upgradeDependencies

Properties

Pull Request Enabled

Whether a pull request with all the upgrades should be created or not. The default value is false

pullRequestEnabled = true

Pull Requests Max

The maximum amount of pull requests to create during the task execution. This is useful to avoid creating too much pull requests when you still have many dependencies to upgrade. The default value is 5

pullRequestsMax = 10

Pull Request Labels

The list of labels to assign when creating the pull request. Optional list.

pullRequestLabels = ["dependencies"]

Pull Request Reviewers

The list of reviewers to assign when creating the pull request. Optional list.

pullRequestReviewers = ["octocat", "hubot", "other_user"]

Pull Request Team Reviewers

The list of team reviewers to assign when creating the pull request. Optional list.

pullRequestTeamReviewers = ["justice-league"]

Head Branch Prefix

The branch's prefix where the commit will be pushed. Also, the head branch's prefix of the pull request to create. Required String (only if pullRequestEnabled is true). The default value is releases_hub/.

headBranchPrefix = "branch_name_"

Base Branch

The pull request base branch. Optional String. The default value is master.

baseBranch = "master"

GitHub User Name

The GitHub user name used by the commit command. Optional String.

gitHubUserName = "user"

GitHub User Email

The GitHub user email used by the commit command. Optional String.

gitHubUserEmail = "[e-mail]"

GitHub Repository Owner

The GitHub repository owner where the pull request will be created. Required String (only if pullRequestEnabled is true).

gitHubRepositoryOwner = "repo_owner"

GitHub Repository Name

The GitHub repository name where the pull request will be created. Required String (only if pullRequestEnabled is true).

gitHubRepositoryName = "repo_name"

GitHub Write Token

The GitHub write token needed to access the GitHub API to create the pull request. We strongly recommend to not use the releasesHub extension for this property, to avoid exposing it on the git repository. Required String (only if pullRequestEnabled is true).

gitHubWriteToken = "123"

GitHub Api Host Name

The GitHub api host name needed to access the GitHub Enterprise. Optional String.

gitHubApiHostName = "your.githubenterprise.com"

Privacy Policy

The listDependenciesToUpgrade & upgradeDependencies tasks send to Releases Hub servers the groupId, artifactId and version of the project dependencies, in order to process and fetch the artifacts updates. That information is sent using SSL and it is NOT stored on the servers. The dependencies excluded through the plugin configuration are not send to the servers.

Donations

Donations are greatly appreciated. You can help us to pay for our domain & cloud backend, both needed to provide you the latest libraries upgrades.

http://donations.releaseshub.com/

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