Configure Actions

TODO: UPDATE WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF ACTIONS

In the change detection guide you’ve seen how can you inform users about changes in your project’s performance. You can use another mechanism to notify other services about noteworthy events, e.g. bots commenting on version control system, updating status page or triggering another job in CI: the webhooks.

Since calling arbitrary services in the intranet is security-sensitive, Horreum administrators have to set up a list of allowed URL prefixes (e.g. domains). As a user with the admin role you can see ‘Administration’ link in the navigation bar on the top; go there and in the ‘Global Actions’ tab hit the ‘Add prefix’ button:```

When you save the modal you will see the prefix appearing in the table. Then in the lower half of the screen you can add global actions: whenever a new Test is created, a Run is uploaded or Change is emitted Horreum can issue a HTTP POST request to this URL, using the new JSON-encoded entity as a request body. You can also use a JSON path¹ wrapped in ${...}, e.g. ${$.data.foo} in the URL to refer to the object sent.

Test owners can set Actions for individual tests, too. Go to the Test configuration, ‘Actions’ tab and press the ‘New Action’ button. This works identically to the global actions.

Even though non-admins (in case of global hooks) and non-owners of given test cannot see the URL it is adviseable to not use any security sensitive tokens.