NAME
Plack::App::GitHub::WebHook - GitHub WebHook receiver as Plack
application
SYNOPSIS
Basic usage
use Plack::App::GitHub::WebHook;
Plack::App::GitHub::WebHook->new(
hook => sub {
my ($payload, $event, $delivery, $logger) = @_;
...
}
)->to_app;
Multiple task hooks
A hook can consist of multiple tasks, given by an array reference. The
tasks are called one by one until a task returns a false value.
use Plack::App::GitHub::WebHook;
use IPC::Run3;
Plack::App::GitHub::WebHook->new(
hook => [
sub { $_[0]->{repository}{name} eq 'foo' }, # filter
sub { # action
my ($payload, $event, $delivery, $logger) = @_;
run3 \@cmd, undef, $logger->{info}, $logger->{error};
},
sub { ... }, # some more action
]
)->to_app;
Access restriction
By default access is restricted to known GitHub WebHook IPs.
Plack::App::GitHub::WebHook->new(
hook => sub { ... },
access => [
allow => "204.232.175.64/27",
allow => "192.30.252.0/22",
deny => 'all'
]
)->to_app;
# this is equivalent to
use Plack::Builder;
builder {
mount 'notify' => builder {
enable 'Access', rules => [
allow => "204.232.175.64/27",
allow => "192.30.252.0/22",
deny => 'all'
]
Plack::App::GitHub::WebHook->new(
hook => sub { ... }
);
}
};
Synchronize with a GitHub repository
The following application automatically pulls the master branch of a
GitHub repository into a local working directory.
use Plack::App::GitHub::WebHook;
use IPC::Run3;
my $branch = "master;
my $work_tree = "/some/path";
Plack::App::GitHub::WebHook->new(
events => ['push','ping'],
hook => [
sub {
my ($payload, $event, $delivery, $log) = @_;
$log->info("$event $delivery");
$event eq 'ping' or $payload->{ref} eq "refs/heads/$branch";
},
sub {
my ($payload, $event, $delivery, $log) = @_;
my $origin = $payload->{repository}->{clone_url}
or die "missing clone_url\n";
my $cmd;
if ( -d "$work_tree/.git") {
chdir $work_tree;
$cmd = ['git','pull',$origin,$branch];
} else {
$cmd = ['git','clone',$origin,'-b',$branch,$work_tree];
}
$log->info(join ' ', '$', @$cmd);
run3 $cmd, undef, $log->{info}, $log->{error};
1;
},
# sub { ...optional action after each pull... }
],
)->to_app;
DESCRIPTION
This PSGI application receives HTTP POST requests with body parameter
"payload" set to a JSON object. The default use case is to receive
GitHub WebHooks , for instance
PushEvents
.
The response of a HTTP request to this application is one of:
HTTP 403 Forbidden
If access was not granted (for instance because it did not origin
from GitHub).
HTTP 405 Method Not Allowed
If the request was no HTTP POST.
HTTP 400 Bad Request
If the payload was no well-formed JSON or the "X-GitHub-Event"
header did not match configured events.
HTTP 200 OK
Otherwise, if the hook was called and returned a true value.
HTTP 202 Accepted
Otherwise, if the hook was called and returned a false value.
HTTP 500 Internal Server Error
If a hook died with an exception, the error is returned as content
body.
This module requires at least Perl 5.10.
CONFIGURATION
hook
A code reference or an array of code references with tasks that are
executed on an incoming webhook. Each task gets passed the encoded
payload, the event
and the unique delivery ID, and a logger object. If the task returns
a true value, next the task is called or HTTP status code 200 is
returned. Information can be passed from one task to the next by
modifying the payload.
If a task returns a false value or if no task was given, HTTP status
code 202 is returned immediately. This mechanism can be used for
conditional hooks or to detect hooks that were called successfully
but failed to execute for some reason.
safe
Wrap all hook tasks in "eval { ... }" blocks to catch exceptions.
Error messages are send to the PSGI error stream "psgi.errors". A
dying task in safe mode is equivalent to a task that returns a false
value, so it will result in a HTTP 202 response.
Plack::Middleware::HTTPExceptions
If you want errors to result in a HTTP 500 response, wrap the
application in an eval block such as this:
sub {
eval { $app->(@_) } || do {
my $msg = $@ || 'Server Error';
[ 500, [ 'Content-Length' => length $msg ], [ $msg ] ];
};
};
access
Access restrictions, as passed to Plack::Middleware::Access. See
SYNOPSIS for the default value. A recent list of official GitHub
WebHook IPs is vailable at . One should
only set the access value on instantiation, or manually call
"prepare_app" after modification.
events
A list of event types
expected to
be send with the "X-GitHub-Event" header (e.g. "['pull']").
LOGGING
Each hook is passed a logging object as fourth parameter. It provides
logging methods for each log level and a general log method:
sub sample_hook {
my ($payload, $event, $delivery, $log) = @_;
$log->debug('message'); $log->{debug}->('message');
$log->info('message'); $log->{info}->('message');
$log->warn('message'); $log->{warn}->('message');
$log->error('message'); $log->{error}->('message');
$log->fatal('message'); $log->{fatal}->('message');
$log->log( warn => 'message' );
run3 \@system_command, undef,
$log->{info}, # STDOUT to log level info
$log->{error}; # STDERR to log level error
}
Trailing newlines on log messages are trimmed.
DEPLOYMENT
Many deployment methods exist. An easy option might be to use Apache
webserver with mod_cgi and Plack::Handler::CGI. First install Apache,
Plack and Plack::App::GitHub::WebHook:
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install cpanminus libplack-perl
sudo cpanm Plack::App::GitHub::WebHook
Then add this section to "/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default" (or
another host configuration) and restart Apache.
Options +ExecCGI -Indexes +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
You can now put webhook applications in directory "/var/www/webhooks" as
long as they are executable, have file extension ".cgi" and shebang line
"#!/usr/bin/env plackup". You might further want to run webhooks scripts
as another user instead of "www-data" by using Apache module SuExec.
SEE ALSO
* GitHub WebHooks are documented at
.
* WWW::GitHub::PostReceiveHook uses Web::Simple to receive GitHub web
hooks. A listener as exemplified by the module can also be created
like this:
use Plack::App::GitHub::WebHook;
use Plack::Builder;
build {
mount '/myProject' =>
Plack::App::GitHub::WebHook->new(
hook => sub { my $payload = shift; }
);
mount '/myOtherProject' =>
Plack::App::GitHub::WebHook->new(
hook => sub { run3 \@cmd ... }
);
};
* Net::GitHub and Pithub provide access to GitHub APIs.
* App::GitHubWebhooks2Ikachan is an application that also receives
GitHub WebHooks.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright Jakob Voss, 2014-
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.