gh-echo

This is a proof-of-concept extension for gh, the GitHub CLI tool. The concept of those extensions is quite simple, gh basically acts as plug-in manager and allows to call an exectuable as extension. See Creating GitHub CLI Extensions for more details.

This is simple micronauts CLI application with PicoCLI with support graalvm's native images.

entry point for gh - bash script gh-echo which determinate and handles executable to run.

• checks architecture and platform.
  • windows-64,linux-64,macos-64 have prebuild binaries at releases. if true - download and use then
• if your system haven't prebuild binaries - build this project as gradle project
  • if you have native-image(part of graalvm) - build native binary for you platform and use it
  • if you haven't native-image - build shadowjar - jar with all dependencies and use it
  • if you haven't javac - exits with error

graalvm haven't crosscompile feature. then prebuild binaries provides only for GitHub Action's runner platforms.

Getting Started

You can find more information on how to install and use extensions in general under Using GitHub CLI Extensions. To test this extension, you can easily install it via

gh extension install DarkWeird/gh-echo-example

Usage

As this extensions is a proof-of-concept for testing out the capabilities of gh with java.

gh echo <anystring>