Validate plugin from the packer-sdc plugin-validate command (#54)

* install packer-sdc at the version from deps

* use make plugin-check in releaser

* goreleaser: run plugin-check before release

Author: azr

.goreleaser.yml

@@ -10,18 +10,13 @@ before:
     # As part of the release doc files are included as a separate deliverable for
     # consumption by Packer.io. To include a separate docs.zip uncomment the following command.
     - make ci-release-docs
+    # Check plugin compatibility with required version of the Packer SDK
+    - make plugin-check
 builds:
   # A separated build to run the packer-plugins-check only once for a linux_amd64 binary
   -
     id: plugin-check
     mod_timestamp: '{{ .CommitTimestamp }}'
-    hooks:
-      post:
-        # This will check plugin compatibility against latest version of Packer
-        - cmd: |
-            go install github.com/hashicorp/packer/cmd/packer-plugins-check@latest &&
-            packer-plugins-check -load={{ .Name }}
-          dir: "{{ dir .Path}}"
     flags:
       - -trimpath #removes all file system paths from the compiled executable
     ldflags:

GNUmakefile

@@ -3,30 +3,34 @@ BINARY=packer-plugin-${NAME}
 
 COUNT?=1
 TEST?=$(shell go list ./...)
+HASHICORP_PACKER_PLUGIN_SDK_VERSION?=$(shell go list -m github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-sdk | cut -d " " -f2)
 
 .PHONY: dev
 
 build:
 	@go build -o ${BINARY}
 
-generate:
-	@go install github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-sdk/cmd/packer-sdc@latest
-	@go generate -v ./...
-
-ci-release-docs:
-	@go install github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-sdk/cmd/packer-sdc@latest
-	@packer-sdc renderdocs -src docs -partials docs-partials/ -dst docs/
-	@/bin/sh -c "[ -d docs ] && zip -r docs.zip docs/"
-
 dev: build
 	@mkdir -p ~/.packer.d/plugins/
 	@mv ${BINARY} ~/.packer.d/plugins/${BINARY}
 
-run-example: dev
-	@packer build ./example
-
 test:
-	@go test -count $(COUNT) $(TEST) -timeout=3m
+	@go test -race -count $(COUNT) $(TEST) -timeout=3m
+
+install-packer-sdc: ## Install packer sofware development command
+	@go install github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-sdk/cmd/packer-sdc@${HASHICORP_PACKER_PLUGIN_SDK_VERSION}
+
+ci-release-docs: install-packer-sdc
+	@packer-sdc renderdocs -src docs -partials docs-partials/ -dst docs/
+	@/bin/sh -c "[ -d docs ] && zip -r docs.zip docs/"
+
+plugin-check: install-packer-sdc build
+	@packer-sdc plugin-check ${BINARY}
 
 testacc: dev
-	@PACKER_ACC=1 go test -count $(COUNT) -v $(TEST) -timeout=120m
+	@PACKER_ACC=1 go test -count $(COUNT) -v $(TEST) -timeout=120m
+
+generate: install-packer-sdc
+	@go generate ./...
+	packer-sdc renderdocs -src ./docs -dst ./.docs -partials ./docs-partials
+	# checkout the .docs folder for a preview of the docs