Using s3 publish plugin without cretendtials

[larionov]

Is it possible to allow reg-publish-s3-plugin to work in the read-only mode without credentials?

In our setup developers don't have access to the S3 credentials, it is only allowed on CI.
That makes us unable to run reg-suit locally but I would like to.

[Quramy]

You can’t.

Publish plug-in is designed to put snapshot images to external storage. Why do you want to run reg-suit locally?

We recommend to run the following tasks at CI env:

• capture screenshot images of your app
• visual regression test( reg-suit does this)

[larionov]

To check for the changes made without pushing to repository.

No need to write the image data to s3 in that case.

[Quramy]

reg-suit sync-expected command may help you. It only fetches uploaded images.

And you can compare actual images and fetched images with reg-suit compare command.

[larionov]

I tried that and to fetch the images the s3 command requires s3 credentials, which I don't have. But the image data is available on s3 publicly

[Quramy]

The compare command outputs an HTML report under .reg dir.

[Quramy]

Oh... sync-expexted cmd uses AWS-SDK and it requires a credential...
Can you get read-only credentials?

[larionov]

I would prefer not to have to do that because then every team member will have to go and get them, and that's not an easy process.

[Quramy]

We need to use SDK to fetches the list of uploaded images. If you have alternative way to get the finelame URL list, you can download images with simple http CLI, for example cURL.

[larionov]

Do you think making a publish plug-in that works with git instead of s3 is a good idea?
One drawback I see is it's harder to publish the report

[larionov]

Also found out that using git hash + s3 as source for the screenshots to compare to can be unreliable if the parent branch fails the build.
Now it doesn't have anything to compare to and thinks all the screenshots are new.
Not sure how that can be fixed though.

[ryparker]

I am also in the same boat as @larionov . We would like devs to be able to pull images from s3 without creds to then test locally before submitting a PR. Writing a script to pull from s3 would be easy however since we use the git-hash-keygen-plugin, the difficult part is knowing the correct key to pull.