Be able to publish the release notes with the CLI

[rocboronat]

Use case

Since we started publishing our Android binaries with the CLI (because of we wanted to publish all four artifacts from a single build)[https://github.com/orgs/codemagic-ci-cd/discussions/2991] we stopped publishing the release notes automatically.

I mean, the regular Codemagic workflow to deliver the Android binaries works great and publishes the release notes, but the CLI version doesn't.

Is there a way to do it?

Idea

Right now we do the delivery with:

google-play bundles publish \
          --credentials @env:GCLOUD_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_CREDENTIALS_JSON \
          --track "production" \
          --rollout-fraction 0.20 \
          --bundle build/app/outputs/bundle/freeRelease/app-free-release.aab

Maybe just letting us specify where's the release_notes.json file could do the job?

google-play bundles publish \
          --credentials @env:GCLOUD_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_CREDENTIALS_JSON \
          --track "production" \
          --rollout-fraction 0.20 \
          --bundle build/app/outputs/bundle/freeRelease/app-free-release.aab
          --release-notes release_notes.json

[mikhail-tokarev]

Hey @rocboronat

I see that --release-notes option is listed under CLI docs https://github.com/codemagic-ci-cd/cli-tools/blob/master/docs/google-play/bundles/publish.md#--release-notes--nrelease_notes

let me know if you tried it and if it worked for you

[rocboronat]

Yey Mikhail 👋

I'm having issues specifying the file to be used... Maybe it would be easier if the example in the documentation was something real. I tried with --release-notes @file:release-notes.json... now I'll try with --release-notes @file:"./release-notes.json"... but it says File "release-notes.json" does not exist.

However, given that the default path is simply to place the release-notes.json file in the root directory, it would be great if the example weren't @file:<file_path> but the actual declaration.

Anyway, I'll share when it finally works 👍

[rocboronat]

Uh, the file name smells. Actually, the default file uses _ while I used -. I think that will be it. Let's run the workflow again and see what happens 😅

[rocboronat]

It did work! The JSON is found now.

Now the issue is that it doesn't support locales like ar-AE. I recall I read unsupported locales were just ignored... let me see what I do now.

It's like I'm having a conversation with myself, just like ChatGPT o3, right? Well, just paving the road in case anyone finds themselves in the same situation as me 😄

[dtrdic]

hey @rocboronat based on the App Store Connect API documentation, the API does not support ar-AE as a valid locale.
Perhaps you can use ar-SA?

[rocboronat]

Hey, thanks for the support! The issue was with Google Play, actually. I took the whole list of supported locales, made a release_notes.json file with only the supported locales... and it worked!

As a feedback, it would be good if the Codemagic CLI made that filtering, because it's "just" removing the unsupported locales from the list of provided locales, and that's it.

Anyway... it's working again! Thanks a lot for the support, and congratulations on Codemagic! 🙇