set github commit status from command line

githubstatus.py

import logging
import json
import argparse

import requests

github_base = "https://api.github.com"
github_status_url = github_base + "/repos/{repo_name}/statuses/{sha}?access_token={token}"

token = ''


def update_status(repo_name, sha, state, desc='Jenkins Tests',
                  target_url=None):
    url = github_status_url.format(repo_name=repo_name,
                                   sha=sha, token=token)
    params = dict(state=state,
                  description=desc)

    if target_url:
        params["target_url"] = target_url

    headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}

    logging.debug("Setting status on %s %s to %s", repo_name, sha, state)

    requests.post(url,
                  data=json.dumps(params),
                  headers=headers)



if __name__ == '__main__':

    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Set github status')
    parser.add_argument('--repo', required=True,
                        help="user/repo")
    parser.add_argument('--sha', required=True)

    def status_type(status):
        if status in ('pending', 'success', 'error', 'failure'):
            return status

        raise ValueError()

    parser.add_argument('--status', type=status_type, required=True)
    parser.add_argument('--url', help="Job url")

    args = parser.parse_args()

    update_status(args.repo, args.sha, args.status, target_url=args.url)

jenkins-example.sh

#! /bin/sh
testcommand=$1
gitroot=`git rev-parse --show-cdup`
repo=`grep url $gitroot.git/config | sed -E "s/.*:(.*)\.git/\\1/g"`
~/venvs/githubstatus/bin/python ~/githubstatus.py --sha $GIT_COMMIT --status pending --repo $repo --url $BUILD_URL

$testcommand && buildstatus=success || buildstatus=failure

~/venvs/githubstatus/bin/python ~/githubstatus.py --sha $GIT_COMMIT --status $buildstatus --repo $repo --url $BUILD_URL
if [ "$buildstatus" = "failure" ]; then
    exit 1
fi