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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions .github/workflows/bump.yml
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push:
branches:
- master

permissions: {}
jobs:
bump-in-dependent-projects:
name: Bump this package in repositories that depend on it
if: startsWith(github.event.commits[0].message, 'chore(release):')
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout repo
uses: actions/checkout@v3
uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
with:
persist-credentials: false
- name: Bumping latest version of this package in other repositories
uses: derberg/npm-dependency-manager-for-your-github-org@1eafd3bf3974f21d395c1abac855cb04b295d570 # using v6.-.- https://github.com/derberg/npm-dependency-manager-for-your-github-org/releases/tag/v6
with:
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15 changes: 10 additions & 5 deletions .github/workflows/local-generate-files.yml
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# this workflow runs after releases to generate some files like for example api.md
name: Autogenerate API files

on:
on:
release:
types:
- published

permissions: {}

jobs:
version_bump:
name: Generate assets and bump NodeJS
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v3
uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
with:
# target branch of release. More info https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/repos#releases
# in case release is created from release branch then we need to checkout from given branch
# if @semantic-release/github is used to publish, the minimum version is 7.2.0 for proper working
ref: ${{ github.event.release.target_commitish }}
persist-credentials: false

- name: Check package-lock version
# This workflow is from our own org repo and safe to reference by 'master'.
uses: asyncapi/.github/.github/actions/get-node-version-from-package-lock@master
uses: asyncapi/.github/.github/actions/get-node-version-from-package-lock@master # pinned to latest master
id: lockversion
with:
node-version: ${{ vars.NODE_VERSION }}
- name: Setup Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v6
uses: actions/setup-node@820762786026740c76f36085b0efc47a31fe5020 # v7.0.0
with:
node-version: "${{ steps.lockversion.outputs.version }}"
cache: '' # disable default npm cache which prevents cache-poisoning on release artifacts
- name: Install dependencies
run: npm ci
- name: Assets generation
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branch: assets-update/${{github.event.release.tag_name}}
- if: failure() # Only, on failure, send a message on the 94_bot-failing-ci slack channel
name: Report workflow run status to Slack
uses: 8398a7/action-slack@v3
uses: rtCamp/action-slack-notify@e31e87e03dd19038e411e38ae27cbad084a90661 # v2.3.3
with:
status: ${{ job.status }}
fields: repo,action,workflow
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8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion .github/workflows/pr-review-checklist.yml
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types:
- opened

permissions: {}

jobs:
pr-review-list:
name: Post PR Review Checklist
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github.event.pull_request.user.login != 'dependabot[bot]' &&
github.event.pull_request.user.login != 'dependabot-preview[bot]')
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
pull-requests: write # permission to create-or-update-comment posts to the PR thread
steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 #v4.2.2 https://github.com/actions/checkout/releases/tag/v4.2.2
uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
with:
persist-credentials: false # read-only; only used to access .github/pr-review-checklist.md

- name: Post initial PR checklist
uses: peter-evans/create-or-update-comment@71345be0265236311c031f5c7866368bd1eff043 #v4.0.0 https://github.com/peter-evans/create-or-update-comment/releases/tag/v4.0.0
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34 changes: 26 additions & 8 deletions .github/workflows/pr-testing-with-test-project.yml
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on:
pull_request:
types: [opened, reopened, synchronize, ready_for_review]

# Revokes default permissions since all jobs only need read access.
permissions: {}
jobs:
changes:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
contents: read # checkout
pull-requests: read # paths-filter reads PR diff
outputs:
should_test: ${{ steps.should_run.outputs.shouldrun }}
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@f43a0e5ff2bd294095638e18286ca9a3d1956744 # v3 https://github.com/actions/checkout/releases/tag/v3
- uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
with:
persist-credentials: false
- name: Checks paths-filter
uses: dorny/paths-filter@fbd0ab8f3e69293af611ebaee6363fc25e6d187d # v4.0.1 https://github.com/dorny/paths-filter/releases/tag/v4.0.1
id: filter
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startsWith(github.event.pull_request.title, 'ci: update of files from global .github repo') ||
startsWith(github.event.pull_request.title, 'chore(release):')
)) ||
(github.actor == 'allcontributors[bot]' &&
(github.actor_id == '46447321' &&
startsWith(github.event.pull_request.title, 'docs: add')
)
)
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needs: changes
name: Test generator as dependency with Node 24
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
contents: read
steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@f43a0e5ff2bd294095638e18286ca9a3d1956744
uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
with:
persist-credentials: false
- name: Log should_test value across jobs #it has to stay here for some time for debugging
env:
SHOULD_TEST: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.should_test }}
run: |
echo "should_test value: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.should_test }}"
echo "should_test value: ${SHOULD_TEST}"
- if: needs.changes.outputs.should_test == 'true'
name: Run test
run: NODE_VERSION=24 docker compose up --abort-on-container-exit --force-recreate
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needs: changes
name: Acceptance tests (${{ matrix.language }})
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
contents: read

strategy:
fail-fast: false
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steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@f43a0e5ff2bd294095638e18286ca9a3d1956744 # v3 https://github.com/actions/checkout/releases/tag/v3
uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
with:
persist-credentials: false

- name: Log should_test value across jobs #it has to stay here for some time for debugging
env:
SHOULD_TEST: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.should_test }}
run: |
echo "should_test value: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.should_test }}"
echo "should_test value: ${SHOULD_TEST}"

- name: Check package-lock version
if: needs.changes.outputs.should_test == 'true'
# This workflow is from our own org repo and safe to reference by 'master'.
uses: asyncapi/.github/.github/actions/get-node-version-from-package-lock@master
uses: asyncapi/.github/.github/actions/get-node-version-from-package-lock@master # pinned to latest master
id: lockversion
with:
node-version: ${{ vars.NODE_VERSION }}
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27 changes: 18 additions & 9 deletions .github/workflows/release-with-changesets.yml
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branches:
- master

# revoke default permissions
permissions: {}

jobs:
test-nodejs:
# We just check the message of the first commit as there is always just one commit because we squash into one before merging
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startsWith( github.event.commits[0].message, 'feat!:' ))
name: Test NodeJS release on ${{ matrix.os }}
runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
permissions:
contents: read # no write permissions needed for testing
strategy:
matrix:
os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
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git config --global core.eol lf
shell: bash
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v4
uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
with:
persist-credentials: false
- name: Check if Node.js project and has package.json
id: packagejson
run: test -e ./package.json && echo "exists=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT || echo "exists=false" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
shell: bash
- if: steps.packagejson.outputs.exists == 'true'
name: Check package-lock version
# This workflow is from our own org repo and safe to reference by 'master'.
uses: asyncapi/.github/.github/actions/get-node-version-from-package-lock@master
uses: asyncapi/.github/.github/actions/get-node-version-from-package-lock@master # pinned to latest master
id: lockversion
with:
node-version: ${{ vars.NODE_VERSION }}
- if: steps.packagejson.outputs.exists == 'true'
name: Setup Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v4
uses: actions/setup-node@820762786026740c76f36085b0efc47a31fe5020 # v7.0.0
with:
node-version: "${{ steps.lockversion.outputs.version }}"
registry-url: "https://registry.npmjs.org"
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run: npm test --if-present
- if: failure() # Only, on failure, send a message on the 94_bot-failing-ci slack channel
name: Report workflow run status to Slack
uses: 8398a7/action-slack@v3
uses: rtCamp/action-slack-notify@e31e87e03dd19038e411e38ae27cbad084a90661 # v2.3.3
with:
status: ${{ job.status }}
fields: repo,action,workflow
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git config --global core.autocrlf false
git config --global core.eol lf
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v4
uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
with:
persist-credentials: false
- name: Check if Node.js project and has package.json
id: packagejson
run: test -e ./package.json && echo "exists=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT || echo "exists=false" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
shell: bash
- if: steps.packagejson.outputs.exists == 'true'
name: Check package-lock version
uses: asyncapi/.github/.github/actions/get-node-version-from-package-lock@master
uses: asyncapi/.github/.github/actions/get-node-version-from-package-lock@master # pinned to latest master
with:
node-version: ${{ vars.NODE_VERSION }}
id: lockversion
- if: steps.packagejson.outputs.exists == 'true'
name: Setup Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v4
uses: actions/setup-node@820762786026740c76f36085b0efc47a31fe5020 # v7.0.0
with:
node-version: "${{ steps.lockversion.outputs.version }}"
- if: steps.packagejson.outputs.exists == 'true'
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- if: steps.packagejson.outputs.exists == 'true'
name: Publish to any of NPM, Github, and Docker Hub
#this step has 2 goals, it is either identifying that there is changeset file created and then this action creates a PR with version bump that will trigger release - or if it sees there is no changeset, and there are versions changes in package.json files, it publish new versions to NPM is they are not there yet
uses: changesets/action@v1
uses: changesets/action@63a615b9cd06ba9a3e6d13796c7fbcb080a60a0b #v1.8.0
id: release
with:
# `changeset version` only rewrites package.json/CHANGELOG files; it never runs an
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GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL: info@asyncapi.io
- if: failure() # Only, on failure, send a message on the 94_bot-failing-ci Slack channel
name: Report workflow run status to Slack
uses: 8398a7/action-slack@v3
uses: rtCamp/action-slack-notify@e31e87e03dd19038e411e38ae27cbad084a90661 # v2.3.3
with:
status: ${{ job.status }}
fields: repo,action,workflow
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- 'apps/generator/docs/*.md'
- '.github/workflows/update-docs-in-website.yml'

permissions: {}

jobs:
Make-PR:
name: Make PR on website repository with updated latest generator documentation
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
contents: write # push to asyncapi/website via PAT
pull-requests: write # gh pr create
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printf '%s\n' "=== workflow token and GH_TOKEN references ==="
rg -n -C 3 'permissions:|contents:|pull-requests:|GH_TOKEN|github\.token|github\.sha|git config|checkout|gh pr create|git push' .github "$file" 2>/dev/null || true
printf '%s\n' "=== workflow files ==="
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GitHub Actions workflow permissions GITHUB_TOKEN permissions do not affect personal access token secrets GH_TOKEN gh CLI GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable official documentation

💡 Result:

The GitHub Actions workflow permissions block (using the permissions key) strictly governs the permissions granted to the default GITHUB_TOKEN secret [1][2]. These settings do not affect or limit other credentials, such as personal access tokens (PATs) or other GitHub App installation access tokens that you manually provide as secrets [1][3]. When you use the GitHub CLI (gh) in a workflow, you must explicitly provide an authentication token via an environment variable, typically GH_TOKEN [4][5]. While both GITHUB_TOKEN and GH_TOKEN are accepted by the CLI, using GH_TOKEN is the recommended best practice [6][5]. The permissions of the gh CLI operations will be determined entirely by the token provided in the GH_TOKEN variable, regardless of the workflow-level permissions set for the GITHUB_TOKEN [1][6]. If your workflow requires permissions exceeding what is granted to the default GITHUB_TOKEN, you must use a separate credential (like a PAT or a different GitHub App token) stored as a secret [1][3]. You should then pass this secret as the GH_TOKEN environment variable for your gh CLI commands [3][7]. Note that when using custom tokens, you are responsible for managing their scope and permissions, as they are not subject to the restricted GITHUB_TOKEN permission settings defined in the workflow YAML [1][2]. Additionally, be aware that standard tools like actions/checkout may automatically configure git authentication using the GITHUB_TOKEN by default [8]. If you intend to use a different token for git operations, you may need to configure the action (e.g., setting persist-credentials: false) to prevent the default token from taking precedence [8].

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Reduce the workflow token permissions.

The website checkout, git push, and gh pr create use secrets.GH_TOKEN, not the workflow token. Set the job permissions to contents: read and remove contents: write and pull-requests: write.

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In @.github/workflows/update-docs-in-website.yml around lines 18 - 20, Update
the workflow permissions block to grant only contents: read; remove contents:
write and pull-requests: write, since the website checkout, git push, and gh pr
create use secrets.GH_TOKEN.

env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
steps:
- name: Checkout Current repository
uses: actions/checkout@v3
uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
with:
path: generator
- name: Checkout Another repository
uses: actions/checkout@v3
persist-credentials: false # since this repo only used for reading docs
- name: Checkout The Website repository
uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
with:
repository: asyncapi/website
path: website
token: ${{ env.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
persist-credentials: true # needed for git push of the docs to the website repo

- name: Config git
working-directory: ./website
run: |
git config --global user.name asyncapi-bot
git config --global user.email info@asyncapi.io

- name: Create branch
working-directory: ./website
env:
SHA: ${{ github.sha }}
run: |
git checkout -b update-generator-docs-${{ github.sha }}
- name: Copy generator folder from Current Repo to Another
git checkout -b "update-generator-docs-${SHA}"

- name: Copy generator folder to the website repo
working-directory: ./website
run: |
rm -r ./markdown/docs/tools/generator
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rm -r ../generator/apps/generator/docs/jsdoc2md-handlebars
printf "%s\ntitle: Generator\nweight: 3\n%s" "---" "---"> ../generator/apps/generator/docs/_section.md
mv ../generator/apps/generator/docs/*.md ./markdown/docs/tools/generator

- name: Commit and push
working-directory: ./website
run: |
git add .
git commit -m "docs(generator): update latest generator docs"
git push https://${{ env.GITHUB_TOKEN }}@github.com/asyncapi/website
git push origin HEAD

- name: Create PR
working-directory: ./website
run: |
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