hooks for gist

[steveb85]

this plugin works great in our workflow for our gits, but I was wondering if there is a way to have it work for gists as well? In the file system the gists do have a hooks folder, but i don’t think this plugin supports them?

[marshalhayes]

I'm actually not sure about this. I guess you're wanting to run a hook when a gist is updated/created?

[steveb85]

yes exactly @marshalhayes . in the .gitbucket/gist folder each gist does have a hooks folder, so it’s potentially possible, just wondering if it’s a simple implementation or not.

[marshalhayes]

I'm looking at the gist plugin now and it looks like this might be doable.

On the gist controller, there are two actions that are interesting:

• a post to create a new gist (see here)
• a post to update an existing gist (see here)

They both ultimately end up committing any changes.

I think the real question to ask here is whether or not, when the Gist plugin commits these changes, does GitBucket call the receiveHooks defined in Plugin.scala?

Out of curiosity, have you tried setting up a post-receive hook for a gist already? It might just work.

[steveb85]

@marshalhayes i did try it when I discovered the hooks folder within the gists, but didn’t get anything, I didn’t go too deep because I assumed it didn’t work as no one had mentioned it, I can do some more thorough testing if you like.

I think the updating is the only thing you ant to worry about, when you create a gist you can’t have a hook, because it doesn’t exist u til it’s saved, so perhaps it could be simple, but also require input from the gist plugin?

Thanks for checking it out!