LC for AL GO

[cegekaJG]

Is there a way to download the LinterCop DLL without editing the default workflow? I'd like to keep the default as much intact as possible for the sake of compatibility, but since we've started customizing LC rule actions for our projects, I'd like our CI/CD pipelines to do the same.
I understand that this blog post is already a good explanation on how to retrieve a build, but this requires editing the workflow YAML.
Is it possible to include LC to AL Go's CI/CD using the configuration files only?

[Arthurvdv]

I'm not (yet) familiar with the possibilities of AL-Go, where I mostly work in Azure DevOps myself.

The documentation states that you can pass a URL for a CustomCodeCops it seems.

https://github.com/microsoft/AL-Go/blob/main/Scenarios/settings.md#advanced-settings

Can you try to pass the this URL and see if this works?
https://github.com/StefanMaron/BusinessCentral.LinterCop/releases/latest/download/BusinessCentral.LinterCop.current.dll

[cegekaJG]

That URL is exactly what I was looking for, I wasn't sure if there was an unzipped link to the file.
It should work, but it didn't when I tried it - though I think that's on AL Go. There was a ticket about it back in October - which I've commented on - so I hope I can get some info.

[dsaveyn]

I can report this customCodeCops property is still not working (tested it myself yesterday).

[freddydk]

The reason for this not working is, that despite the documentation saying so, CustomCodeCops cannot be a URL today in AL-Go for GitHub.
The fix for this is in BcContainerHelper and in a PR here: microsoft/navcontainerhelper#3488 - which means that BcContainerHelper also will support specifying a URL as customCodeCop for just-in-time download.

When that has merged, you would need to add "vsixFile": "latest" to your settings file as well as the Lintercop from @StefanMaron requires the latest AL Language Exrension.

You can see a test run with the Lintercop here: https://github.com/BusinessCentralApps/buildorder/actions/runs/8679462223

[cegekaJG]

Do I need to wait for a new release or should it work immediately?

[Arthurvdv]

This will be avaiable on the version 6.0.16 of the BcContainerHelper.

https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/BcContainerHelper

Currently 6.0.15 is de current version, so we need to wait for the release of 6.0.16.

[Arthurvdv]

Awesome news, the version 6.0.16 of the BcContainerHelper is released and it works perfectly 🤗

In the settings.json file you can specify the url to dll file of the LinterCop (and enable downloading the latest VSIX).

{
  "vsixFile": "latest",
  "customCodeCops": [
    "https://github.com/StefanMaron/BusinessCentral.LinterCop/releases/latest/download/BusinessCentral.LinterCop.current.dll"
  ]
}

I'll update the documentation on using the LinterCop with AL-Go in the next few days.