githubCommentIssue¶

Comment on GitHub issues and pull requests.

Prerequisites¶

You need to create a personal access token within GitHub and add this to the Jenkins credentials store.

Please see GitHub documentation for details about creating the personal access token.

Parameters¶

Overview - Step¶

Name	Mandatory	Additional information
body	yes
number	yes
owner	yes
repository	yes
script	(yes)	reference to Jenkins main pipeline script
token	(yes)	pass via ENV, Vault or Jenkins credentials (`githubTokenCredentialsId`)
apiUrl	no
verbose	no	activates debug output

Overview - Execution Environment¶

Orchestrator-specific only

These parameters are relevant for orchestrator usage and not considered when using the command line option.

Name	Mandatory	Additional information

Details¶

apiUrl¶

Set the GitHub API url.

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Scope	Details
Aliases	`githubApiUrl`
Type	`string`
Mandatory	no
Default	`https://api.github.com`
Secret	no
Configuration scope	☒ parameter ☒ general ☒ steps ☒ stages
Resource references	none

body¶

Defines the content of the comment, e.g. using markdown syntax.

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Scope	Details
Aliases	-
Type	`string`
Mandatory	yes
Default	`$PIPER_body` (if set)
Secret	no
Configuration scope	☒ parameter ☐ general ☒ steps ☒ stages
Resource references	none

number¶

Defines the number of the GitHub issue/pull request.

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Scope	Details
Aliases	-
Type	`int`
Mandatory	yes
Default	`0`
Secret	no
Configuration scope	☒ parameter ☐ general ☒ steps ☒ stages
Resource references	none

owner¶

Name of the GitHub organization.

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Scope	Details
Aliases	`githubOrg`
Type	`string`
Mandatory	yes
Default	`$PIPER_owner` (if set)
Secret	no
Configuration scope	☒ parameter ☐ general ☒ steps ☒ stages
Resource references	commonPipelineEnvironment: reference to: `github/owner`

repository¶

Name of the GitHub repository.

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Scope	Details
Aliases	`githubRepo`
Type	`string`
Mandatory	yes
Default	`$PIPER_repository` (if set)
Secret	no
Configuration scope	☒ parameter ☐ general ☒ steps ☒ stages
Resource references	commonPipelineEnvironment: reference to: `github/repository`

script¶

Jenkins-specific: Used for proper environment setup.

The common script environment of the Jenkinsfile running. Typically the reference to the script calling the pipeline step is provided with the this parameter, as in script: this. This allows the function to access the commonPipelineEnvironment for retrieving, e.g. configuration parameters.

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Scope	Details
Aliases	-
Type	`Jenkins Script`
Mandatory	yes
Default
Secret	no
Configuration scope	☐ parameter ☐ general ☐ steps ☐ stages
Resource references	none

token¶

GitHub personal access token as per https://help.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/creating-a-personal-access-token-for-the-command-line.

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Scope	Details
Aliases	- `githubToken` - `access_token`
Type	`string`
Mandatory	yes
Default	`$PIPER_token` (if set)
Secret	yes
Configuration scope	☒ parameter ☒ general ☒ steps ☒ stages
Resource references	Jenkins credential id: id: `githubTokenCredentialsId` Vault paths: `$(vaultPath)/github` `$(vaultBasePath)/$(vaultPipelineName)/github` `$(vaultBasePath)/GROUP-SECRETS/github`

verbose¶

verbose output

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Scope	Details
Aliases	-
Type	`bool`
Mandatory	no
Default	`false`
Possible values	- `true` - `false`
Secret	no
Configuration scope	☒ parameter ☒ general ☒ steps ☒ stages
Resource references	none

githubTokenCredentialsId¶

Jenkins-specific: Used for proper environment setup. See using credentials for details.

Jenkins 'Secret text' credentials ID containing token to authenticate to GitHub.

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Scope	Details
Aliases	-
Type	`string`
Configuration scope	☒ parameter ☒ general ☒ steps ☒ stages

Description¶

This step allows you to add comments to existing GitHub issues or pull requests.

Pull requests are considered similar to issues and thus adding a comment can be done to an existing pull request as well. This comes in very handy when you want to make developers aware of certain things during a PR voting process, for example.

Usage¶

We recommend to define values of step parameters via .pipeline/config.yml file.
In this case, calling the step is essentially reduced to defining the step name.
Calling the step can be done either in an orchestrator specific way (e.g. via a Jenkins library step) or on the command line.

Jenkins

library('piper-lib-os')

githubCommentIssue script: this

Command Line

piper githubCommentIssue