Github_Actions

GitHub Actions

Workflow Example

This is the script I’m using for building on Github Actions workflow.

name: Swift

on:
  push:
    branches: [ master ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ master ]

defaults:
  run:
    shell: bash
    working-directory: ./src/iOS/HealthSense

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: macos-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2

    - name: Shell Info
      run: cd $PWD && ls

    - name: Dependency installation
      run: pod install

    - name: Xcode list project structure
      run: xcodebuild -list -project  HealthSense.xcodeproj

    - name: Xcode Actual Build
      run: xcodebuild clean build test -workspace HealthSense.xcworkspace -scheme HealthSenseCI -destination "platform=iOS Simulator,OS=13.3,name=iPhone 11" ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=NO CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED=NO -skip-testing:HealthSenseUITests

    - name: Displays cocoapods version
      run: pod --version

Runners

Checking what runners images are available for Github Actions

Workflow

Manual trigger

Running a workflow to run manually
Github docs

on: workflow_dispatch

Note: This event will only trigger a workflow run if the workflow file is on the default branch.

Reasoning

Reasoning behind why something like this is needed. As I had to explain my reasoning with my team.

alright not trying to be difficult, just trying to understand what work flows you need to run before you open a pull request?

Answer

Nw let me explain my train of thoughtScenario 1:

• We start testing some work on GA workflow, but in order to test it we have to open a PR.
• Once that's open we would push commits with new changes to see how it reacts & wait for the builder queue to run it successfully.
• Which sends out a slack workflow notification (polluting the channel) ( we can filter out notifications only if the PR is up or has a specific tag )
• By having an option of manual trigger -> a person can work on a dirty branch do 4 - 7 commits and actually open a PR with 1 commit change (we can do rebase or squash) too but that's a total diff strategy.

Scenario 2:

• We have manual workflows with Input like enabled_logging, deploy_docs or send_slack_notification  or update_slack_channel_description_tag or tag / release manually
• We can have all this workflows with a conditional if or provide a manual trigger with input so that it runs a specific workflow and not run all n number of workflows which aren't necessary.
• eg. when 2 tasks are dependent on 1 task we can do conditional depends but if a deploy docc  job isn't dependent on tests or other builds we can run it independently without having the whole workflow job failed.
• This saves us compute time, checking back on GA for jobs to be completed or queued up and less slack notifications.
• Essentially we won't have to wait for 5 mins in order to build, test, deploy docs just to update the tag job on slack. We can essentially leap frog our way to directly run independent jobs with more finer control with manual trigger instead of Be_All_Generalized_Rule (like: if main has new commits run these 2 workflows)

All these scenarios could be supported with manual_triggers and that's the stepping stone for future enhancements on GA automation.

Filtering

Branch specific wildcards

on:
  pull_request:
    # Sequence of patterns matched against refs/heads
    branches:    
      - main
      - develop
      - 'releases/**'

github actions doc

Github Context

You can get the current github context by referring this doc on github website

Specify Xcode Version

You can use this action before running your command
GA | workflow check xcode version

package 'swift-docc' is using Swift tools version 5.9.0 but the installed version is 5.8.0

Sometimes its more important to be on specific xcode version or swift package tools

Errors

Resource not accessible by integration

"Resource not accessible by integration" on github post /repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/runners/registration-token API]

Was solved by providing the write permission in YAML file

name: "test-action"
on: 
  pull_request:
jobs:
    lint:
        runs-on: macOS-builder
        permissions:
          contents: read
          pull-requests: write
          repository-projects: read

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