Push updates to Drupal

[AlexVanK]

Provide a way to inform Drupal sites about project status and available updates. This way users don't have to do anything on GitHub, everything can be done through Drupal interface.

Related resources: Custom module versioning public function UpdateFetcher::buildFetchUrl public function UpdateFetcher::getFetchBaseUrl Use "current" in update URLs instead of CORE_COMPATIBILITY to retrieve all future updates Update Status XML

[AlexVanK]

Workflow

Upon any new release GitHub releases API returns a json format of all that comes with the release. Problem is: we need XML.

Figure out a way to generate XML upon a new release being created.

Options:

• Create file manually and store it on .github folder in this project. (This will become a problem, too many fields to handle, let alone versioning.)
• Call web hook to other service, and generate XML field there. (Could maybe do this on styleguide website?)

[AlexVanK]

Done. Steps to make this work:

• Created GitHub action to trigger on repository release
  • Action runs on Ubuntu VM (Remember! Linux environments are case sensitive)
• Created .py (Python) script to translate GitHub release JSON feed into the XML format required by Drupal
  • The above is created in ./.github/releases-feed/nihod5/current
  • The xml file needs to be called "current" without extension
  • Point nihod5 theme to that path by setting "project status url" in nihod5.info.yml
  • Both "project" and "project status url" are needed

Document this in internal documentation

[AlexVanK]

Drupal new recognizes the needs for updates, and points to the right changelog history: