GitLab hook on push event

Question

Hi anyone have a some script may be for example how I can create hook in GitLab repository to automatically build maven war archive from project after each push request? Please post some example of script! Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You can use a Gitlab-API wrapper to create your hook. There are some in several languages, I'll use the Ruby wrapper as an example. Adding a hook is as simple as :

h = Gitlab.add_project_hook(project_id, hook_url)

Of course, check first if the hook doesn't already exist. Your url could end with /maven .

Your hook will now trigger a POST request on the url everytime something is pushed to the project repo.

A simple webserver such as Sinatra can now handle the request :

mavenjob.rb
require 'sinatra'

post '/maven' do
  'Hook triggered'!
  #Handle creation of maven archive
end

You could consider handling POST requests with a queuing system such as Resque. In case you want to go with Ruby there is a Maven wrapper on Github but I've never used it.

Hope it helps!

Answer 2

My recomodation is to configure gitlab-ci and use it toghether with gitlab. You can also run some other things there and it has very good interface.