I am using Flutterflow, a low code tool for designing Flutter projects. It can push code into a flutterflow branch in Github. Anytime that the flutterflow branch is updated, I want to merge into a develop branch.
One of the constraints is that you cannot make changes to the flutterflow branch - any changes made will get overwritten the next time Flutterflow pushes its changes. So I can’t host the config.yml file in that branch.
I am getting an error “Failed to fetch config.yml file.” and I think it is because Circle Ci is looking in to the flutterflow branch for the config file.
Does anyone know how to set this up to run on pushes into the flutterflow branch?
This is my config file:
version: 2.1
# Define a job to be invoked later in a workflow.
jobs:
merge_flutterflow_to_develop:
docker:
- image: cimg/base:stable
steps:
- checkout
- run:
name: Configure Git User
command: |
git config --global user.email "ci@getsylvester.com"
git config --global user.name "Sylvester CI Bot"
- run:
name: Merge Changes from flutterflow to develop
command: |
git checkout develop
git merge origin/flutterflow
git push origin develop
workflows:
version: 2
on_push_to_flutterflow:
jobs:
- merge_flutterflow_to_develop:
filters:
branches:
only: flutterflow
(PS sorry for the double post, couldn’t figure out how to edit)
I think you have misunderstood dansomrack’s problem.
Flutterflow has a very strange integration with git repos - basically none in the normal sense. When using the Flutterflow git integration it basically regenerates the flutterflow branch in the repo from the app expressed in the Flutterflow design tool. The logic is that the newly recreated branch can then be merged into any other branch of the repo.
The complication is that Flutterflow does not seem to allow any external files/artifacts to be included when the flutterflow branch is recreated and so a config.yml file can not be included for when the github/CircleCI webhook integration fires.
The config.yml provided by dansomrack is trying to automate the process of merging the created flutterflow branch into the develop branch, otherwise, this has to be done as a manual step every time.
From my understanding of the CircleCI platform, there is no simple solution as there does not seem to be any way of having a config.yml used from outside of the repo branch being processed. I did not reply to dansomrack’s original post as the only answer I could come up with was an overly complex solution that involved a github webhook firing some form of independent service that in turn made a CircleCI API call that started a workflow on a repo branch that could correctly host the config.yml file.
Thank you both for your replies. @rit1010 , what you described is the exact scenario. We were also thinking about an approach using webhooks from GitHub, but at that point might leave CircleCI out completely for this branch.
@jerdog Yes, changes are made to the flutterflow branch every time there is a push from Flutterflow UI. Flutterflow UI is acting like a glorified one-way IDE. We have a few commits in the develop branch for functionality not available through Flutterflow UI, such as adding in Sentry Web. We want to be able to use the develop branch deployed to a test environment as our internal testing grounds.
I’ll try the steps you recommended and dig into using PR builds for this.