Include release metadata during github build

.github/workflows/image.yml

@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ jobs:
           # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
           flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
 
+      - name: Create release metadata
+        run: |
+          # COPY'ed by Dockerfile into backend/ of the image, then read by the server in store.py
+          echo ${{ steps.vars.outputs.sha_short }} > backend/source.txt
+          echo ${{ steps.vars.outputs.tag }} > backend/tag.txt
+
       - name: Test with pytest
         run: |
           # Each test is totally isolated and performs its own cleanup/reset
@@ -68,7 +74,7 @@ jobs:
           cache-to: type=local,dest=/tmp/.buildx-cache
 
       - name: Image digest
-        run: echo ${{ steps.docker_build.outputs.digest }}
+        run: echo step SHA ${{ steps.vars.outputs.sha_short }} tag ${{steps.vars.outputs.tag}} branch ${{steps.vars.outputs.branch}} digest ${{ steps.docker_build.outputs.digest }}
 
 # failed: Cache service responded with 503
 #      - name: Cache Docker layers

Dockerfile

@@ -4,12 +4,11 @@ FROM python:3.8-slim
 ARG CRYPTOGRAPHY_DONT_BUILD_RUST=1
 
 COPY requirements.txt /tmp/requirements.txt
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libssl-dev libffi-dev gcc libc-dev libxslt-dev zlib1g-dev rustc g++ --no-install-recommends && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /var/cache/apt/*
 
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libssl-dev libffi-dev gcc libc-dev libxslt-dev zlib1g-dev rustc g++ --no-install-recommends && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /var/cache/apt/*
 # Update pip, install requirements, remove rust and dev packages that are no longer needed.
 RUN pip3 install --upgrade pip && pip3 install --no-cache-dir -r /tmp/requirements.txt && apt-get remove rustc *-dev --purge -y
 
- 
 RUN [ ! -d "/app" ] && mkdir /app
 RUN [ ! -d "/datastore" ] && mkdir /datastore
 
@@ -24,11 +23,6 @@ WORKDIR /app
 # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58701233/docker-logs-erroneously-appears-empty-until-container-stops
 ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
 
-# Attempt to store the triggered commit
-ARG SOURCE_COMMIT
-ARG SOURCE_BRANCH
-RUN echo "commit: $SOURCE_COMMIT branch: $SOURCE_BRANCH" >/source.txt
-
 CMD [ "python", "./changedetection.py" , "-d", "/datastore"]
 
 

backend/store.py

@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ class ChangeDetectionStore:
             'notification_urls': [] # List of URLs to add to the notification Queue (Usually AppRise)
         }
 
-        if path.isfile('/source.txt'):
+        if path.isfile('backend/source.txt'):
-            with open('/source.txt') as f:
+            with open('backend/source.txt') as f:
                 # Should be set in Dockerfile to look for /source.txt , this will give us the git commit #
                 # So when someone gives us a backup file to examine, we know exactly what code they were running.
                 self.__data['build_sha'] = f.read()