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Chapter 50. GitHub

GitHub component
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Available as of Camel 2.15
The GitHub component interacts with the GitHub API by encapsulating egit-github. It currently provides polling for new pull requests, pull request comments, tags, and commits. It is also able to produce comments on pull requests, as well as close the pull request entirely.
Rather than webhooks, this endpoint relies on simple polling. Reasons include:
  • Concern for reliability/stability
  • The types of payloads we're polling aren't typically large (plus, paging is available in the API)
  • The need to support apps running somewhere not publicly accessible where a webhook would fail
Note that the GitHub API is fairly expansive. Therefore, this component could be easily expanded to provide additional interactions.
Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component: 
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-github</artifactId>
    <version>${camel-version}</version>
</dependency>
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URI format
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gihub://endpoint[?options]
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Mandatory Options:
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Note that these can be configured directly through the endpoint.
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Option
Description
username
GitHub username, required unless oauthToken is provided
password
GitHub password, required unless oauthToken is provided
oauthToken
GitHub OAuth token, required unless username & password are provided
repoOwner
GitHub repository owner (organization)
repoName GitHub repository name

Consumer Endpoints:
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Endpoint
Context
Body Type
pullRequest
polling
org.eclipse.egit.github.core.PullRequest
pullRequestComment
polling
org.eclipse.egit.github.core.Comment (comment on the general pull request discussion) or org.eclipse.egit.github.core.CommitComment (inline comment on a pull request diff)
tag
polling
org.eclipse.egit.github.core.RepositoryTag
commit
polling
org.eclipse.egit.github.core.RepositoryCommit

Producer Endpoints:
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Endpoint
Body
Message Headers
pullRequestComment
String (comment text)
  • GitHubPullRequest (integer) (REQUIRED): Pull request number.
  • GitHubInResponseTo (integer): Required if responding to another inline comment on the pull request diff. If left off, a general comment on the pull request discussion is assumed.
closePullRequest
none
  • GitHubPullRequest (integer) (REQUIRED): Pull request number.

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Name
Default Value
Description
delay
60
in seconds
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