We are showing here an example of how the Jira Snapshots API can be called from using Python codes that is triggered from a GitHub Action.
Similar implementations can be done in any language, so this example is given for the sake of demonstration.
Prerequisites:
A Jira Snapshot exists, and it has each API enabled as explained on this page.
The Api Key is known, and set by an environment variable (in the code snippet, “SNAPSHOT_APIKEY”)
The web request endpoint is available through the environment variable (in the code snippet, “SNAPSHOTS_WEB_REQUEST_URL”)
A snippet of the GitHub Workflow file:
name: RadBee-Sandbox Test
on:
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
snapshots_web_request_url:
description: 'Snapshots web request url'
required: true
type: string
snapshots_apikey:
description: 'Snapshots api key'
required: true
type: string
permissions:
contents: read
env:
PYTHON_VERSION: '3.11'
SNAPSHOTS_WEB_REQUEST_URL: ${{ inputs.snapshots_web_request_url }}
SNAPSHOTS_APIKEY: ${{ inputs.snapshots_apikey }}
jobs:
build:
runs-on: macos-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- name: Set up Python ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
uses: actions/setup-python@v4
with:
python-version: ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
- name: Install dependencies
run: |
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python tests/take_snapshot.py
And this is the snippet of the Python program:
import requests
import os
def take_snapshot():
print("Start taking snapshot...")
url = os.environ["SNAPSHOTS_WEB_REQUEST_URL"]
headers = {"jira-snapshots-api-key": os.environ["SNAPSHOTS_APIKEY"]}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers)
if response.status_code == 200:
print("Snapshot was triggered successfully!")
else:
print(f"Error on taking snapshot: {response.status_code}")
# run
if __name__ == "__main__":
take_snapshot()