Support for Renovate Bot

Renovate Bot is only supporting updating version numbers in gradle.properties. Probably it also doesn’t understand the “_”-placeholder.

Is there a way to get Renovate Bot working while still using your Plugin with all it’s advantages? I would love to have the feature of automatic PR creation for Dependency Updates but as we are using Bitbucket the number of possible applications to do this is quite low 😦

[jmfayard]

I had a look at what Renovate Bot here https://github.com/galacticcouncil/substrate-api-explorer/issues/114 and here https://github.com/mulesoft/mule-migration-assistant/pull/406

It seems to me that it should be quite easy for the bot to

• detect whether the file versions.properties exist
• if yes, run $ ./gradle refershVersions
• then read, analyse and write the file versions.properties.

That’s the whole point of it by the way, this file is machine readable and writable.

Given a versions.properties like this:

it could then reformat it in the issue like this:

- [ ] update version.kotlinx.coroutines to 1.3.7 from 1.3.1

And in the pull request it would just do

## versions.properties
- version.kotlinx.coroutines=1.3.1
+ version.kotlinx.coroutines=1.3.7

Now ideally you would have a CI setup so that you run the unit tests for example to checck whether you have a compability problem with the new version.

(The only question would be how you filter the multiple options to just one)

[yschimke]

Yep, I confused everyone with a PR showing support for kts. Sorry for confusing this message.

I came here to file this bug upon seeing https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/pull/16684/files which adds support for kts files.

The previous links to examples were from 2020, so thought a fresh sample of an integration could help.

I’ll leave now…