Add ability to use private github repos for recipes

[brentpicasso]

Add ability to specify a github_access_token so recipes can download from private github repositories.

[AndreMiras]

Interesting feature thanks. Alternatively you should already be able to clone using the token like so:

git clone https://[email protected]/$USERNAME/$REPOSITORY.git

Let me know if you think that would be a good enough alternative. Your approach has a couple of advantages over this one however:

• no full clone needed
• no hardcoded credentials in the recipe (as it can be in the environment variable)

[brentpicasso]

Interesting feature thanks. Alternatively you should already be able to clone using the token like so:

git clone https://[email protected]/$USERNAME/$REPOSITORY.git

Let me know if you think that would be a good enough alternative. Your approach has a couple of advantages over this one however:

* no full clone needed

* no hardcoded credentials in the recipe (as it can be in the environment variable)

Hi, thanks for looking at it.

Do python recipes already support getting the repository this way via 'git clone'? I only see https download support in the PythonRecipe.

git clone https://[email protected]/$USERNAME/$REPOSITORY.git

We need this to be automated for our build process, not done by hand as a separate process.

Regarding the hardcoded environment variable- I noticed the PythonRecipe already has a provision for using properties based on enviornment variables:

 @property
    def github_access_token(self):
        key = "GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN_" + self.name
        return environ.get(key, self._github_access_token)

In my case, my recipe just gets the environment variable and sets it within the recipe, so it is not hard coded.

Overall, if Python recipes support getting the repo via https, then it should also support getting private repos using the same mechanism, by providing the access token.

Edit: I'd love to have your feedback on the URL_<recipe> environment variable approach combined with https://[email protected]/$USERNAME/$REPOSITORY.git

[AndreMiras]

Do python recipes already support getting the repository this way via 'git clone'? I only see https download support in the PythonRecipe.

git clone https://[email protected]/$USERNAME/$REPOSITORY.git

We need this to be automated for our build process, not done by hand as a separate process.

Yes git cloning is supported in Recipe, see https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android/blob/74b891e/pythonforandroid/recipe.py#L221-L242

Regarding the hardcoded environment variable- I noticed the PythonRecipe already has a provision for using properties based on enviornment variables:

 @property
    def github_access_token(self):
        key = "GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN_" + self.name
        return environ.get(key, self._github_access_token)

Good catch for environment variable based properties. https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android/blob/74b891e/pythonforandroid/recipe.py#L159-L162

    @property
    def url(self):
        key = 'URL_' + self.name
        return environ.get(key, self._url)

I'm wondering if you could leverage that already to build to clone URL dynamically and add the token like we mentioned?

In my case, my recipe just gets the environment variable and sets it within the recipe, so it is not hard coded.

Yes I get that, that's what I meant, it's in the advantage list of your approach.

Overall, if Python recipes support getting the repo via https, then it should also support getting private repos using the same mechanism, by providing the access token.

Yes agree, one thing however is this is tailor made for GitHub only rather than a generic (header based) authentication. Also I'm always trying to see if we can meet the requirements without growing the code base with many hidden features. I'm totally not blocking the feature, just challenging it to see if there're good alternatives

[brentpicasso]

Thanks for the feedback. Perhaps we make it generic and let people specify the authorization token and not make it github specific.

Would that seem better?

[AndreMiras]

Yes I was thinking maybe generic header from environment variables could be an option too. But did you give the git clone + token a try still?

[brentpicasso]

Ok, I've updated it to specify headers generically, and enhanced the documentation as well: https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android/pull/3074/commits/e4ade43f942f1fe7c6bd227c5d6e9179eb1800e1

I think this is a pretty clean implementation, thanks for the feedback!

[brentpicasso]

@AndreMiras I also found applied a tiny unrelated fix around a possible missed python 2.7 migration issue: https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android/pull/3074/commits/254440db5c293d9d5cf8ec0da04a1e1e9bc00b2a

[brentpicasso]

@AndreMiras thanks, happy to help! Looks like all checks have passed.