Hello,
On our Gerrit, CI results are displayed below the commit message as a
HTML table. It is achieved by a few lines of JavaScript which parse the
comments. I went to write a replacement based on a system builtin
Gerrit: Checks API
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/Documentation/pg-plugin-checks-api.html>
. An early example:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F35814298 .
I could use some early adopters to try out the plugin and gather some
early feedback. If all goes well I will roll it on our Gerrit instance.
If you are curious or want to provide some feedback, below are the
instructions to run it on your local machine.
In Chrome/Chromium, install the Gerrit Frontend Dev Helper extension
<https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gerrit-fe-dev-helper/jimgomcnodkialnpmienbomamgomglkd>.
It is used to inject the JavaScript plugin from a locally running web
server.
Create a new empty directory
Retrieve the JavaScript Gerrit plugin from Change 859083
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/software/gerrit/+/859083/>:
curl -o wm-checks-api.js
'https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/changes/operations%2Fsoftware%2Fgerrit~859083/revisions/16/files/plugins%2Fwm-checks-api.js/download'
Retrieve a PHP router for the PHP built-in webserver. It would inject
cross origin headers when serving a response:
curl -o plugins-router.php
'https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/changes/operations%2Fsoftware%2Fgerrit~860885/revisions/1/files/plugins-router.php/download'
Start a PHP Webserver to serve the plugin:
php -S 127.0.0.1:8081 plugins-router.php
Head to
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/ and enable the Gerrit FE dev
helper plugin. The page will reload.
Click again the browser extension and a configuration popup will appear.
Using the ADD button add an entry with:
* Operator: injectJSPlugin
* Destination:
http://127.0.0.1:8081/wm-checks-api.js
Click SAVE. The page reloads and the plugin should have been injected
(there would be a little red box in the bottom right of the Gerrit
page). When browsing a change that previously had CI comments, you
should see a Checks tab which hold the results found by the plugin.
The series of changes is in Gerrit
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/topic:checks-api
--
Antoine Musso
/(a good chunk of the code was written late at night over a week-end, I
had to rerelearn JavaScript and discovered TypeScript in the process)./