travis_after_all

This is a Travis CI helper to run particular work only once in matrix.

This is a workaround for: travis-ci/travis-ci#929

Dependencies

This script assumes an environment variable called GITHUB_TOKEN is always available for Travis CI builds. This token will be used for retrieving a temporary Travis token for the LEADER job to poll Travis about the state of the other jobs.

Read more about creating a suitable GitHub token here.

Once you have a suitable token available, you can make sure it ends up encrypted in your .travis.yml file by doing:

gem install travis
travis encrypt GITHUB_TOKEN="github-token" --add

After this step you will find new lines in your Travis CI config:

env:
  global:
    secure: "encrypted-github-token"

Usage

The main goal of this script to have a single publish when a build has several jobs. Currently the first job is a leader, meaning a node that will do the publishing.

An example .travis.yml shows how to ensure that all_succeeded or all_failed:

#...
script:
  - curl -Lo travis_after_all.py https://raw.github.com/dmakhno/travis_after_all/master/travis_after_all.py
after_success:
  - python travis_after_all.py https://api.travis-ci.com
  - export $(cat .to_export_back)
  - |
      if [ "$BUILD_LEADER" = "YES" ]; then
        if [ "$BUILD_AGGREGATE_STATUS" = "others_succeeded" ]; then
          echo "All jobs succeeded! PUBLISHING..."
        else
          echo "Some jobs failed"
        fi
      fi
after_failure:
  - python travis_after_all.py https://api.travis-ci.com
  - export $(cat .to_export_back)
  - |
      if [ "$BUILD_LEADER" = "YES" ]; then
        if [ "$BUILD_AGGREGATE_STATUS" = "others_failed" ]; then
          echo "All jobs failed"
        else
          echo "Some jobs failed"
        fi
      fi
after_script:
  - echo leader=$BUILD_LEADER status=$BUILD_AGGREGATE_STATUS

Limitations/Todo

• If other jobs will start late, can be global build timeout (think of passing leader role to others, for example who started last is the leader).
• More flexible leader definition (in matrix not all jobs can publish).
• Have several leaders, according to flavours (e.g. if in matrix slices responsible for platform).