POST_COMMANDS and reporters

[wesley-dean]

I was thinking about the JSON reporter and how it could be fun to use it in combination with jq to fabricate JSON documents that could be passed along to APIs like the API reporter does, but in a less Grafana-specific way.

I took a look at the "how does it work" on the FAQ page and I saw it didn't include in the process where PRE_COMMANDS or POST_COMMANDS would run, so I went to the source:

https://github.com/oxsecurity/megalinter/blob/main/megalinter/Linter.py#L892-L899

(so, the answer is, after the linters but before the reporters)

So, it seems like the JSON reporter + jq + curl (to send the results somewhere) through MegaLinter exclusively (i.e., not as a separate step in a GitHub Action, for example, is out). Unless there was a POST_POST_COMMANDS option, because the reporters (e.g., the JSON reporter) run after the POST_COMMANDS, there's no good, clean way to explore that concept.

Is my understanding correct?

I'm thinking that if someone wanted to do something like that, they would use the JSON reporter to store the results, then use a separate step in a workflow to use jq, curl, etc.. yeah?