WebHook with file changes

[Taras Danylchuk]

as for standart webhook - https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/event-payload-938025882.html?utm_campaign=in-app-help&utm_medium=in-app-help&utm_source=stash#Eventpayload-repositoryevents

- it does not provide list of changed files - but just refs.

Questions:

1. Was it done by purpose?

2. Will this hook request include changed files information in future?

[Michael Heemskerk · Accepted solution]

> Was it done by purpose?

Yes, the webhook payload has intentionally kept lean for a number of reasons:

• getting a list of commits or changed files involves running one or more git commands, which adds overhead to the sending of webhooks.
• In a single push, many commits can be added, and many files could be changed, which would result in very large payloads
• Many webhook listeners are only interested in learning that a branch has changed, in which case the added processing is wasted effort
• It's hard to predict what information a webhook listener is interested in (commits/commits + paths/commits + paths + diffs per commit/diff per updated branch?)

With the information in the webhook payload, you should be able to use the REST API to obtain the information you're interested in.

>  Will this hook request include changed files information in future?

No, for the reasons described above.

[mattmadhavan2]

Hello,

I am trying to extend a Monitor for the Spring Config server refresh. I do not want to refresh all the applications! I need to know which files changed! 

Can you please let me know how do I find out which config file changed so that I can only refresh only the application that the config file from belongs too.

We have 50 Microservices! I do not

[Taras Danylchuk]

To reach this, I've used some custom hook (https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/post-service-webhook-for-bitbucket-server-776640367.html?_gac=1.178462992.1520356400.EAIaIQobChMIlIqf8JjY2QIVWl8ZCh3h1gOzEAAYASAAEgKlgfD_BwE&_ga=2.131084682.423483028.1523277645-1929951528.1474983805) + custom logic for config service.