grunt-knappsack

The best Grunt plugin ever.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.4

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-knappsack --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-knappsack');

The "knappsack" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named knappsack to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  knappsack: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      options: {
        // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
      }
    },
  },
});

Options

options.knappsackHost

Type: String Required

The hostname where knappsack is hosted

options.knappsackPort

Type: Integer Optional

The Network port to access knappsack

options.knappsackPath

Type: String Optional

The root path to access knappsack

options.username

Type: String Required

The username to use for authenticating with knappsack

options.password

Type: String Required

The password to use for authenticating with knappsack

options.applicationId

Type: Integer Required

The knappsack applicaitonId of the app to upload a version of

options.appState

Type: String Default: GROUP_PUBLISH

The state of the version after its been uploaded. valid values are:GROUP_PUBLISH, ORGANIZATION_PUBLISH, DISABLED, ORG_PUBLISH_REQUEST, RESIGNING

options.versionName

Type: String Required

The name of the version being uploaded. The plugin will query knappsack for current versions of the app. If any match the versionName provided the plugin will append a (#) to the end of the versionName

options.recentChanges

Type: String or Function Default

Any notes or description you want to include with the version being uploaded

options.file

Type: String Required

The path to the file being uploaded

Usage Examples

var gitRev = require('git-rev');
 
grunt.initConfig({
  knappsack: {
    options: {
      knappsackHost: 'http://mydomain.com',
      knappsackPort: 9090,
      knappsackPath: '/knappsack',
      username: 'dev@mydomain.com',
      password: 'knappsack_rocks!'
    },
    android: {
      options: {
        applicationId: 42,
        versionName: '1.0',
        recentChanges: function(done) { // you can use async function.
          gitRev.long(function(hash) {
            done("commit " + hash);
          });
        },
        file: 'android.apk'
      }
    }
  }
});

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

2014-04-18   v0.1.0   First release.