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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) Jenkins only reference to Jenkins main pipeline script
token (yes) Vault Secret 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.

library('piper-lib-os')

githubCommentIssue script: this
piper githubCommentIssue