The generated API clients are a work in progress, you can also find our stable clients on the Algolia documentation.

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Release process

1. Setup your GITHUB_TOKEN​

You need a GITHUB_TOKEN in your .env file at the root of the repository. You can generate one from the personal access token page with Repo (Full control of private repositories) scope.

GITHUB_TOKEN=<YOUR-PERSONAL-ACCESS-TOKEN>

Once setup, you can run:

yarn release

It will create a release PR.

2. Review the release PR.​

You need to review the release PR, in two parts:

  1. version changes
  2. CHANGELOGs

You need approval from a member of the @algolia/api-clients-automation team to release clients.

3. The release process.​

After a full CI run, a release commit will be sent to every repository and spread changes to their next branch.

Each language repository should have their own release process, and should run only when the latest commit starts with chore: release. By doing so, we have a way to just update the repository, for example READMEs, without having to release.

Releasing manually​

Java​

Java is released to sonatype before being sent to Maven central repository, the jar need to be signed before publishing, and then verified on sonatype by using closeAndRelease target on Gradle. All of this is handled in the release action, executed on the Java repository. If you want to release manually, you need to copy some secrets to either:

  • clients/algoliasearch-client-java/gradle.properties /!\ make sure to remove them before committing !
  • ~/.gradle/gradle.properties which is safer because it’s not committed and can stay on your computer.

The secrets are fetched from the vault, make sure you have access to api-clients-squad, and then read the value and place them in the gradle.properties file you want (don’t copy this file verbatim):

signingInMemoryKey="$(vault read -field sub_private_key secret/algolia/api-clients-squad/maven-signing | awk 'NR == 1 { } 1' ORS='\\n')"
signingInMemoryKeyId=$(vault read -field subkey_id secret/algolia/api-clients-squad/maven-signing)
signingInMemoryKeyPassword=$(vault read -field password secret/algolia/api-clients-squad/maven-signing)

mavenCentralUsername=$(vault read -field user secret/algolia/api-clients-squad/sonatype)
mavenCentralPassword=$(vault read -field password secret/algolia/api-clients-squad/sonatype)

To release a snapshot, you need to add -SNAPSHOT to the VERSION_NAME in clients/algoliasearch-client-java/gradle.properties, then to release run: ./gradle/gradlew -p clients/algoliasearch-client-java --no-parallel publish

And if it’s not a snapshot, run: ./gradle/gradlew -p clients/algoliasearch-client-java closeAndReleaseRepository

Once the package is published, it can be used in gradle file as:

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    maven { url = "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/" }
}

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.algolia:algoliasearch-client-java:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
}

If it’s not a snapshot, you can ignore the sonatype repository.