Decorate merge requests with build information (artifact published in git repository)

anthonydahanne · November 4, 2021, 2:02pm

At the end of my build execution, I’d like to publish some information about the artifacts that I published to Gitlab NPM registry.

I know some CI templates such as CodeQuality provide information after the build, directly in the merge request main view:

For now, I’m currently adding a note to the PR;

  script:
    - 'curl --data-urlencode body="New artifact \`$ARTIFACT_NAME:$NEW_VERSION\` was just published to the NPM registry" --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: ${MY_CI_TOKEN}" "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/${CI_PROJECT_ID}/merge_requests/${CI_MERGE_REQUEST_IID}/notes"'

and it renders this way, as a note to the PR:

that’s OK, but I wish I could do something more integrated, such as the CodeQuality template does.

Is it possible to do that, if so how ?
Thank you

What version are you on? Are you using self-managed or GitLab.com?

GitLab.com
Runner: gitlab-runner 14.4.0-rc1

Can you link to any docs or other resources so we know where you have been?

A somewhat similar question was asked there Decorate merge request but it ended up with artifact publication; I’d rather not publish any artifact.

snim2 · November 5, 2021, 10:15am

So, if you were generating unit test reports, you’d generate a file in JUnit XML format, and add it to your pipeline job like this:

    ...
     artifacts:
         when: always
         reports:
             junit:
                 - output.xml
         expire_in: 2 weeks

I believe it’s possible to do something similar for other types of output, like codequality also using artifact reports.