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Adds .github/workflows/notify-postman.yml — the first workflow in this repository. On any push to main touching spec/**, it sends a repository_dispatch (openapi-spec-published) to chargebee/cb-openapi-generator, which regenerates the public Chargebee Postman collections from spec/ and opens a pull request carrying the diff.

Why here

spec/ is updated by cb-sdk-gen's public-sdk-releasespecs-release.yml, which opens a PR against this repository. Merging that PR is the moment the specification becomes public, because this repository's main is what downstream consumers read. That makes this repo — not the SDK release workflow — the right place to announce it.

The Postman pipeline deliberately does not trigger on public-sdk-release completing: that workflow proposes the change rather than publishing it, and builds SDKs from chargebee_sdk_spec.json on CloudFront, which is a different artefact from the spec/ files the collections are generated from.

Why it is safe

It is a latency optimisation, not a dependency:

  • The consumer already polls hourly and keys on this repository's commit SHA. If the dispatch never fires, the collections still follow — just up to an hour later instead of within minutes.
  • The step fails soft. A missing token logs a notice and exits 0; a non-204 response logs a warning. A spec release must not report as broken because a downstream notification could not be sent.
  • permissions: contents: read, and the workflow touches nothing in this repository.
  • Nothing auto-merges downstream. The dispatch opens a pull request that a human reviews.

One prerequisite before this does anything

A repository secret POSTMAN_REGEN_DISPATCH_TOKEN — a fine-grained token with Contents: read and write on chargebee/cb-openapi-generator and no other permission (that is what the repository_dispatch API requires). Merging without it is harmless: the step logs a notice and exits 0.

Testing it

After the secret exists, run the workflow manually (workflow_dispatch) and check that postman-regenerate starts in cb-openapi-generator. A run for a SHA already generated from exits in seconds, so a manual trigger is cheap and repeatable.

cc @Alish — this implements the pinning you suggested, at the merge event rather than at the SDK release run.

Adds a GitHub Actions workflow that notifies chargebee/cb-openapi-generator after spec/** changes reach main. The workflow also supports manual runs, skips safely without POSTMAN_REGEN_DISPATCH_TOKEN, and treats dispatch failures as warnings.

The specs in spec/ are updated by cb-sdk-gen's public-sdk-release, which opens a
pull request here. Merging it is the moment the specification becomes public,
since this repository's main branch is what downstream consumers read — so it is
the moment worth announcing.

chargebee/cb-openapi-generator regenerates the published Chargebee Postman
collections from spec/ and opens a pull request carrying the diff. Until now it
discovered a release by polling and could lag a day behind it.

A latency optimisation, not a dependency, and written to stay that way: that
pipeline still polls hourly and keys on this repository's commit SHA, so if the
token is never configured, the dispatch fails, or this file is deleted, the
collections still follow — just later. The step fails soft for the same reason. A
specification release must not report as broken because a downstream
notification could not be sent.

Needs one repository secret, POSTMAN_REGEN_DISPATCH_TOKEN: a fine-grained token
with Contents write on chargebee/cb-openapi-generator and nothing else. Without
it the step logs a notice and exits zero.
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The pull request adds a GitHub Actions workflow that notifies the Postman generator when spec/** changes on main or when manually dispatched. It passes the current commit SHA and reports unavailable tokens or non-204 responses without blocking the workflow.

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Postman generator notification

Layer / File(s) Summary
Conditional generator dispatch
.github/workflows/notify-postman.yml
The workflow triggers on specification changes and manual dispatches. It sends a repository_dispatch event with the current commit SHA when the dispatch token is available. It treats missing tokens and non-204 responses as non-blocking conditions.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to df481

The workflow adds a best-effort downstream notification; without explicit request and job timeouts, a stalled call could consume runner time, but this is a bounded non-blocking concern and the PR is merge-ready with follow-up to add timeouts.

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Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)
.github/workflows/notify-postman.yml (1)

32-52: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add job and HTTP request timeouts.

curl has no connection or total timeout. A stalled request can consume runner minutes until the job limit. Set timeout-minutes on the job. Set --connect-timeout and --max-time on curl.

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   notify:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 5
     steps:
...
-          status=$(curl -sS -o /tmp/dispatch.out -w '%{http_code}' \
+          status=$(curl -sS --connect-timeout 10 --max-time 30 \
+            -o /tmp/dispatch.out -w '%{http_code}' \
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In @.github/workflows/notify-postman.yml around lines 32 - 52, Add a finite
timeout-minutes value to the job containing the “Dispatch to
cb-openapi-generator” step, and add curl connection and total request timeouts
to the GitHub API invocation. Keep the existing dispatch URL, headers, payload,
and token handling unchanged.

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In @.github/workflows/notify-postman.yml:
- Around line 32-52: Add a finite timeout-minutes value to the job containing
the “Dispatch to cb-openapi-generator” step, and add curl connection and total
request timeouts to the GitHub API invocation. Keep the existing dispatch URL,
headers, payload, and token handling unchanged.

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exit 0
fi

status=$(curl -sS -o /tmp/dispatch.out -w '%{http_code}' \

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P2 Badge Keep curl transport errors on the soft-failure path

When GitHub's API cannot be reached because of a DNS, connection, or TLS error, curl exits nonzero (curl --manual documents failures such as exit 6 for DNS and 7 for connection errors). GitHub Actions runs this implicit Bash step with -e, and the assignment inherits curl's exit status, so execution stops here instead of reaching the warning branch. This makes the workflow fail precisely for a class of downstream notification failures that the workflow says must fail soft; capture/neutralize the curl exit status before inspecting the result.

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