This GitHub Action was born for that person or team that prefer to handle manually it's gradle dependencies. It publishes a comment in your PR when it's necessary to update gradle dependencies
You must have in your project the Ben Manes - Gradle Versions Plugin
The pull request URL to publish the result
The project's GitHub token for posting the comment.
name: Check Dependencies
on:
pull_request:
types: [opened]
jobs:
dependency_check:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
name: Check dependencies and add a comment in the PR with the result
steps:
- name: Checkout project sources
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Check Dependencies
uses: raulpadilladelgado/check-dependencies-in-pr-action@1.0.1
with:
pull_request_url: ${{ github.event.pull_request.comments_url }}
github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
I recommend keeping "opened" pull request type, to avoid a lot of messages in your pull request about Gradle dependencies Updates, with this approach the message only appears one time.