fix: use git, not the GitHub API, outside GitHub Actions - #221
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Any CI=true was treated as GitHub. In GitLab CI or Jenkins, -f and -l then called https://api.github.com/repos//commits/ and failed with 404. Use the GitHub client only when GITHUB_ACTIONS=true, as git-bot-feedback does for cpp-linter-rs. Elsewhere a new LocalApiClient takes the changed files from git (honoring --diff-base) and writes findings to the log as plain compiler-style lines, with no ::notice or ::group:: commands and nothing written to GITHUB_OUTPUT or GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY. Thread comments and reviews are skipped with a warning. An empty --diff-base now means "not set" instead of failing in pygit2, so a CI template can pass a variable that is empty outside merge requests.
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. WalkthroughThe linter now selects a local client outside GitHub Actions. The local client discovers changed files from git diffs and reports findings through logs, annotations, and optional summary output. CLI diff-base handling and log-group output also depend on the execution environment. ChangesLocal execution
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The change routes non-GitHub environments to a git-based local client and keeps GitHub Actions behavior unchanged. No merge-blocking risk was identified; only a minor naming cleanup remains. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change reduces unintended GitHub operations outside GitHub Actions without demonstrating a new privilege or credential exposure. Existing checkout-consistency and report-writing assumptions remain, and failure-state coverage is limited. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation Docstring coverage is 76.19% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 21 functions across 8 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)
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- Line 80: In main(), warn when a LocalApiClient run requests --tidy-review or
--format-review before clearing either flag; retain clearing both flags so local
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| None if not input else int(input) if input.isdigit() else str(input) | |
| None if not input else (int(input) if input.isdigit() else str(input)) |
This is more readable to me. And I think this might resolve SonarCloud warning.
I suppose we could just extract this to a small function:
def type_diff_base(input: None | str) -> None | str | int:
"""A custom type check for the ``--diff-base`` arg."""
if not input:
return None
if input.isdigit():
return int(input)
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As noted in the PR description, the Gitea Actions sets GITHUB_ACTIONS and GITEA_ACTIONS to true.
We already know that the GithubApiClient will not work with Gitea because the Gitea REST API endpoints/responses are all different from Github REST API endpoints/responses. A user actually reported this in cpp-linter/cpp-linter-action#281
I propose we warn about no support for Gitea Actions and fallback to using git CLI in Gitea Actions.
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| if os.environ.get("GITHUB_ACTIONS", "") == "true": | |
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If this is non-op by default, what's the point in having it?
- I doubt people are deriving their own REST API client just to add this behavior. I suppose one could monkey-patch the Python runtime to add their own behavior here, but monkey-patching is discouraged in Python because it is not very sustainable and unreliable.
- We removed this function a long time ago because we decided the repo should be checked out before running cpp-linter (in CI or locally).
- There are no call sites for this function added in this PR (or maybe I missed it somewhere)
Gitea Actions sets GITHUB_ACTIONS=true as well, but the GitHub REST API client does not work against Gitea (cpp-linter/cpp-linter-action#281). Check GITEA_ACTIONS first, warn that it is not supported, and use the local client there. main() clears --tidy-review/--format-review for non-PR events before post_feedback() runs, so the local client never saw them. Warn in main() before clearing them; post_feedback() now only warns about thread comments. Move the --diff-base type conversion into type_diff_base() instead of a nested conditional expression (SonarCloud python:S3358).
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cpp_linter/cli.py (1)
121-128: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueRename the
inputparameter. It shadows a builtin (Ruff A002).Rename
inputtovalue. MoveNoneto the end of the union (RUF036). Theelseafterreturnis also redundant.Proposed fix
-def type_diff_base(input: None | str) -> None | str | int: +def type_diff_base(value: str | None) -> str | int | None: """A custom type check for the ``--diff-base`` arg.""" - if not input: + if not value: return None - if input.isdigit(): - return int(input) - else: - return str(input) + if value.isdigit(): + return int(value) + return value🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 121-128: Update type_diff_base to rename its input parameter to
value, order the parameter and return unions with None last, and remove the
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| def type_diff_base(input: None | str) -> None | str | int: | ||
| """A custom type check for the ``--diff-base`` arg.""" | ||
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| def type_diff_base(input: None | str) -> None | str | int: | |
| """A custom type check for the ``--diff-base`` arg.""" | |
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| def type_diff_base(user_input: None | str) -> None | str | int: | |
| """A custom type check for the ``--diff-base`` arg.""" | |
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SonarCloud complains about using a name of a builtin function: input() captures stdin when called.
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cpp-linter treats any
CI=trueas GitHub. GitLab CI (and most other CI systems) also setCI=true, so-f/-lthere call the GitHub API with an empty repository and fail:That is what 1.14.1 does today with
CI=true GITLAB_CI=true cpp-linter -l=true --diff-base=<sha>in a plain git repository.Change
The GitHub client is used only when
GITHUB_ACTIONS=true. That is the same check git-bot-feedback uses for cpp-linter-rs, which falls back to itsLocalClienteverywhere else. Gitea Actions also setsGITHUB_ACTIONS=true, so it behaves as before.Everywhere else, a new
LocalApiClient(rest_api/local_api.py) is used:--diff-base, the same path a local run takes today.a.cpp:2:13: warning: ... [check]). No::noticelines are printed, and log groups print just their name.GITHUB_OUTPUTorGITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY.--summary-output-filestill works.GITHUB_TOKEN.Also, an empty
--diff-base=now means "not set". It used to fail in pygit2 withInvalidSpecError, which matters for a CI template that passes a variable that is empty outside merge requests.github_api.pyis not touched, so this stays out of the way of #135.Behavior change
A non-GitHub CI job that relied on
CI=truealone to reach the GitHub API now gets the local git diff. Without theGITHUB_*variables that call could not work anyway, but a job that sets them by hand would needGITHUB_ACTIONS=truetoo.Tests
tests/test_local_api.py:local_api.pyhas 100% coverage.test_misc.py: the log group tests cover both modes.test_cli_args.pyhas a row for the empty--diff-base.pytest -m no_clangpasses with and withoutGITHUB_ACTIONSset (105 passed). pre-commit passes (ruff, mypy, cspell).CI=true GITLAB_CI=true:This is the first step of the GitLab plan in discussion #127. SARIF (#204) and a GitLab Code Quality report follow in a separate PR.
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--diff-basevalues are treated as unset.