Generation of MR once a day

[lmilbaum]

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I'd like to force MR created once a day. It is needed for invoking a post upgrade command. Not sure if the command is invoked if there is no dependency to update.
One option I'm considering is tracking a file which contains a date string. Renovate can be used for bumping the date which will result in invoking the post upgrade command.
Is there a way to bump a date string?

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[rarkins]

Try Custom manager, custom datasource, loose versioning (eg date is 20240615)

[lmilbaum]

Thanks @rarkins. Are you aware of a relevant datasource I could use?

[rarkins]

No

[lmilbaum]

OK. Found the following: http:https://worldtimeapi.org/api/ip.
It returns:

curl http:https://worldtimeapi.org/api/ip         
{
  "abbreviation": "IDT",
  "client_ip": "xx.xx.xx.xx",
  "datetime": "2024-06-16T14:28:05.619908+03:00",
  "day_of_week": 0,
  "day_of_year": 168,
  "dst": true,
  "dst_from": "2024-03-29T00:00:00+00:00",
  "dst_offset": 3600,
  "dst_until": "2024-10-26T23:00:00+00:00",
  "raw_offset": 7200,
  "timezone": "Asia/Jerusalem",
  "unixtime": 1718537285,
  "utc_datetime": "2024-06-16T11:28:05.619908+00:00",
  "utc_offset": "+03:00",
  "week_number": 24
}

I assume the config should look something like this:

  "customDatasources": {
    "dates": {
      "defaultRegistryUrlTemplate": "http:https://worldtimeapi.org/api/ip",
      "transformTemplates": [
        "{\"releases\":\"\"}"
      ],
      "format": "json"
    }
  },

Can you please advice how to set the transformTemplatees key?

[lmilbaum]

The following repo is for testing it - https://github.com/platform-engineering-org-test/renovate-test.
The configuration is not working yet.