anyone else would like to be able to describe GitH...

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[Piotr Krzemiński]

anyone else would like to be able to describe GitHub Actions workflows with a Kotlin DSL? type-safety, being able to extract common stuff to functions, and more - seems attractive to me, especially if the logic becomes complicated. I did some initial work here: https://github.com/krzema12/github-actions-kotlin-dsl, if you're interested, feel free to watch the effort and maybe contribute 🙂

[louiscad]

Super interested. I'd be happy to collaborate because editing that YAML manually is so annoying.

[Piotr Krzemiński]

Cool! I'll try to find find time to setup the CI and some tests for better collaboration

[louiscad]

We can also pair-program those 😉

[Piotr Krzemiński]

Sounds great, but I'm on limited resources here 😅 so for now we have to stay asynchronous

[Piotr Krzemiński]

I encourage you to describe some of your real-life workflows with this DSL, see what's missing and how it works in general.

[louiscad]

Does it support the if clauses at the moment?

[Piotr Krzemiński]

Kinda, as "condition" (maybe it should be "if", for consistency): https://github.com/krzema12/github-actions-kotlin-dsl/blob/8f685649f1182e43579e5fec80ba3ef651a84506/examples/src/main/kotlin/KotlinPytonGenerateReports.kt#L28

[Piotr Krzemiński]

BTW, I'm working on publishing to Maven Central so that it's easier for you to test

[Piotr Krzemiński]

done, available under it.krzeminski:github-actions-kotlin-dsl:0.1.0

[andylamax]

would like to contribute in this as well. Pair program even

[Piotr Krzemiński]

if you guys have any concrete ideas what we could work on, feel free to create issue(s) - always good to track stuff and have a discussion there 🙂 during weekend I did some work around internal quality (added some tests, linter, refactoring to make actions isolated)

[Piotr Krzemiński]

I'm planning to work on https://github.com/krzema12/github-actions-kotlin-dsl/issues/7 next time I have time

[Piotr Krzemiński]

also, please let me know once you start using it in your projects, would love to have a look at your workflows and how you expressed them with the DSL

[Piotr Krzemiński]

I suppose the first issue that you'll face is missing mapping for some actions (existing actions are here), so feel free to send PRs that add them

[Piotr Krzemiński]

v0.2.0 is out, with consistency check. That is, for such Kotlin script there's additional job generated that compares "expected" and "actual" YAML

[Piotr Krzemiński]

any luck with giving this lib a try in your projects? 🙂

[andylamax]

Is there some kind of guide to how I wire this whole thing up?

[Piotr Krzemiński]

No, just an example in the "test-repo" I mentioned above. However, good point - I'll let you know once there's some piece of docs!

[Piotr Krzemiński]

here, I polished the README, along with instructions how to add an example workflow: https://github.com/krzema12/github-actions-kotlin-dsl/blob/main/README.md any feedback appreciated!

[Piotr Krzemiński]

working on adopting the library in a real-life project: https://github.com/krzema12/kotlin-python/pull/106

[Piotr Krzemiński]

here's a dedicated channel for the library: #C02UUATR7RC