Weekly Cronjob fetching artifacts and generating polkadot.rs file. (#1352)

* github CI action cronjob * add commit message * fix the CI yml files * binary crate for CI script with substrate-runner * update the CI script * correct the artifacts script * remove bash script
2026-04-22 16:08:00 +00:00 · 2024-01-17 12:28:58 +01:00
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+name: Update Artifacts
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch: # Allows manual triggering
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "0 0 * * 1" # weekly on Monday at 00:00 UTC
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.workflow }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+env:
+  CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
+
+jobs:
+  check:
+    name: Renew Artifacts
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout sources
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      # We run this (up-to-date) node locally to fetch metadata from it for the artifacts
+      - name: Use substrate-node binary
+        uses: ./.github/workflows/actions/use-substrate
+
+      - name: Install Rust stable toolchain
+        uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
+        with:
+          profile: minimal
+          toolchain: stable
+          override: true
+
+      - name: Rust Cache
+        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@3cf7f8cc28d1b4e7d01e3783be10a97d55d483c8 # v2.7.1
+
+      # This starts a substrate node and runs a few subxt cli child processes to fetch metadata from it and generate code.
+      # In particular it generates:
+      # - 4 metadata (*.scale) files in the `artifacts` directory
+      # - a polkadot.rs file from the full metadata that is checked in integration tests
+      # - a polkadot.json in the `artifacts/demo_chain_specs` directory
+      - name: Fetch Artifacts
+        run: cargo build --bin artifacts
+
+      - name: Create Pull Request
+        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v5
+        with:
+          base: master
+          branch: update-artifacts
+          commit-message: Update Artifacts (auto-generated)
+          branch-suffix: timestamp
+          title: Update Artifacts (auto-generated)
+          body: |
+            This PR updates the artifacts by fetching fresh metadata from a substrate node.
+            It also recreates the polkadot.rs file used in the integration tests.
+            It was created automatically by a Weekly GitHub Action Cronjob.