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Contributing to ByteChef

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Before we start...




If you have just stumbled upon my OSD600 series of blog posts, it has been created to document and share my learnings as I progress through my Open Source Development college course.




After completing Hacktoberfest, my classmates and I were challenged to make more substantial Open Source contributions. It was time to move beyond typo fixes and minor code changes and focus on implementing full-fledged features.



If you read my . This was mainly because, in the final week of Hacktoberfest, I decided to unassign myself from a more difficult issue that involved implementing a feature in the Java Spring Boot backend of a project called /




API integration and workflow automation platform





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UPDATE: ByteChef is under active development. We are in the alpha stage, and some features might be missing or disabled.












The 1-st Issue I worked on



I decided to give myself a head start by picking up an issue similar to the one I had previously dropped (




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To be honest, I felt a bit nervous returning to the project, as I was still ashamed for unassigning myself from the previous issue. However, the project maintainer was kind enough to give me another shot.




The Issue I ended up working on: The task was to implement the Delete Row action for the




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Contribution Process






Dev Environment Setup




During my first attempt, I struggled to get the project running, even though I closely followed the instructions in the and referencing existing actions for guidance.



I discovered that creating an action starts with the action() method from the ComponentDsl package. It initializes an instance of ModifiableActionDefinition which provides various methods, such as title(), description(), properties(), and perform(), to define the action’s properties and logic. Once all the properties are defined, the action is registered in the component handler, making it available for use.



For the action I was implementing, no output was required. Its sole purpose was to send an HTTP DELETE request to a specific API endpoint, using a table ID and a row ID as inputs. I constructed the URL for this request by referring to the ).



Creating the Delete Row action:



The row I specified (row #1) is no longer in the DB:

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After several iterations of formatting the code, running tests, and fixing minor issues, all tests passed, and my changes were ready for a PR. I went ahead and submitted a Pull Request, and it was merged the following day!








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  • Manually tested the action by creating and executing a test workflow on the client side.


Created a test workflow that included a Baserow delete row action. Configured the workflow by adding the authentication token to connections and specifying the table ID and row ID for the testing Baserow table:


Checked the specified Baserow database table to confirm that the specified row was successfully deleted.:













The 2-nd issue I worked on



After my first PR was merged, I was curious to implement an action for another component to explore how the backend integrates interactions with other services. I checked the open issues and found one related to adding an action for the Google Drive component.













The Get File action for the Google Drive component is designed to retrieve a specified file from the user's Google Drive. This action allows users to access file metadata and content.


Action properties:



  • file ID - the ID of the file you wish to retrieve


Ouput:



  • file - a file object containing detailed information about the retrieved file.


Documentation Reference: