Gradle plugin for creating and editing GitHub gists using your buildscripts

The plugin is hosted on the official Gradle plugins repo and can be added to your build script like any plugin:

plugins {
  id "com.henrikstabell.gistgradle" version "1.0-SNAPSHOT"
}

https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/com.henrikstabell.gistgradle

The plugin has two tasks, both of which are optional:

Creates a new Gist on your GitHub account:

createGist {
	gitUser = "github username"
	gitPass = "github password"
	gistContent = "Contents of the file you are creating"
	gistFileName = "filename.txt" 
	gistDescription = "description for the gist"
	gistStatus = true
}

gitUser expects a GitHub username. Mandatory

gitPass expects a GitHub password, if you have 2FA enabled on your GitHub account this will not work, support for OAuth might be added in the future (PRs are welcome!). Mandatory

gistContent expects a text string with your file contents, this can be any format. (JSON, TXT, XML, HTML etc.). Mandatory

gistFileName expects a filename with a file extension. Mandatory

gistDescription expects a text string with a short description for your gist, if this is ignored a default description will be added to the gist for you. Optional

gistStatus Set this to true if you want the gist to be public (default: false) Optional

With the exception of gistDescription and gistStatus all parameters are mandatory, the plugin will fail with a NullPointerException if the mandatory parameters are empty.

to run the task use the following command:

gradle createGist

Edits an existing gist on your GitHub account.

editGist {
	gitUser = "github username"
	gitPass = "github password"
    gistID = "12345"
	gistContent = "Contents of the file you are editing"
	gistFileName = "filename.txt" 
}

gitUser expects a GitHub username. Mandatory

gitPass expects a GitHub password, if you have 2FA enabled on your GitHub account this will not work, support for OAuth might be added in the future (PRs are welcome!). Mandatory

gistID expects the ID of the gist you want to edit (ex. ec632e84cd5e0941259c7746d04ddb03) Mandatory

gistContent expects a text string with your file contents, this can be any format. (JSON, TXT, XML, HTML etc.). Mandatory

gistFileName expects a filename with a file extension. Mandatory

All parameters are mandatory, the plugin will fail with a NullPointerException if any of the parameters are empty.

to run the task use the following command:

gradle editGist

This plugin was made for a specific personal use case, but published because others might have a use for it as well. As such it does what it needs to and not much else. This causes some limitations:

• Both when editing and creating gists, only a single file can be added to the gist. This is not a limitation with the API but the plugin, if you really need this added feel free to make a PR and i'll happily merge it.
• When editing a gist the content is completley replaced instead of merging the changes.

I have no plans to remove these limitations but feel free to submit a pull request and i'll happily merge it.

This plugin uses the GitHub Java API by Eclipse to create and edit gists: https://github.com/eclipse/egit-github/tree/master/org.eclipse.egit.github.core