The last couple of days I have been exploring the possibilities of building a REST API in Swift for a pet project of mine. I have been trying to deploy it to Heroku, following the instructions in this post.
Now, I want to share some code, that I want to deploy as a Swift package, between my client side and server side projects. And that shared code lives in a private repo in github.
So, there are two ways to do that (there might be more, but I am only aware of these two).
First, expose the username and password in the Package declaration.
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import PackageDescription let package = Package( name: "MyPackage", dependencies: [ .Package(url: "https://github.com/loganwright/vapor.git", majorVersion: 0), .Package(url: "https://username:password@github.com/ctarda/MyPackage.git", majorVersion: 0) ] ) |
Obviously, this is not good.
The second one, is by authenticating with a personal access token. Personal access token are available in github’s Personal Settings > Personal access tokens. What seems to work for me is selecting “repo” as scope (which includes repo:status, repodeployment and publicrepo)
Adding the token to the Package manifest like this:
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import PackageDescription let package = Package( name: "MyPackage", dependencies: [ .Package(url: "https://github.com/loganwright/vapor.git", majorVersion: 0), .Package(url: "https://XXXXX_token_XXX:x-oauth-basic@github.com/ctarda/MyPackage.git", majorVersion: 0) ] ) |
allows Heroku to check my private repo out and build my project every time I trigger a new deployment.
If you know of a better way to do this, please sound off in the comments!
There is a third a approach with SSH type git URLs.
See StackOverflow “How to use
swift-package-managerwith private repos?”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47842479/how-to-use-swift-package-manager-with-private-repos