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Sync local eXist-DB applications with GitHub code #1

Closed aso2101 closed 7 years ago

aso2101 commented 8 years ago

I know it's possible to do this with webhooks but I've never used them before.

wsalesky commented 7 years ago

@aso2101 Have you tried installing the crypto module on the newest version of eXist?

aso2101 commented 7 years ago

I have, and it seems to work. I'd like to give webhooks another try.

wsalesky commented 7 years ago

Great. Do we have a script? Or do I need to give you one? Also, are you able to add environment variables to your server? If so we can store the git-sync code in the app, which is the best long term solution.

aso2101 commented 7 years ago

I don't have a script. But I should be able to add environment variables to the server.

By the way, I now see that Wolfgang Meier wrote a program for getting data from a GitHub repository into an eXist-DB library: https://github.com/sarit/sarit-data

wsalesky commented 7 years ago

Interesting. I had not seen that. So the scripts do slightly different things, but either could work for your data. Wolfgang's script is triggered by the user (a button on the data app page triggers the script to pull the data from github), my script uses github webhooks to sync to the data repository and respond to any 'push' event to the master branch.

I do not think Wolfgang's script requires any (github) authorization, so that could simplify the update process. Let me know which approach you prefer and I will set something up.

aso2101 commented 7 years ago

I think we should put this issue on ice for now. So far there haven't been any real problems in updating the data manually. And I suspect that synchronization with GitHub/GitLab etc. is something that eXist will probably add in future versions.