Send-CLOC-Report

Objective

Scan a specified GitHub source repository with CLOC and send the output to a specified email address.

Implementation

The Send CLOC (count lines of code) Report script works by first prompting the user for a sender email address and password. These account credentials will be used to login into the Gmail email service and send the CLOC report to a specified email address. The user is then prompted for a receiver email address for where to the send the CLOC report, the url of a Github repository, and a specified branch within the repository to scan. The repository is processed with CLOC and the output is placed into a CSV file. This CSV file is sent as an attachment from the sender email address to the specified receiver email address.

Requirements

Python 3.7.4 or later

• An interpreted high-level general-purpose programming language.
• Python 3 installation and documentation: https://www.python.org/downloads/
• Python executable must be on system PATH

Pip 20.0.1 or later

• Package management system used to install and manage software packages/libraries written in Python.
• Pip installation and documentation: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installation/

GitPython 3.1.10 or later

• A python library used to interact with Git repositories
• GitPython installation and documentation: https://gitpython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Email Credentials

• Sender: Gmail account credentials (email address and password)
• Receiver: Any email service credentials (email address only)

Usage

C:\Send-CLOC-Report\> python send_cloc_report.py
---Enter sender credentials---
Enter email: sender@gmail.com
 sender@gmail.com is not a valid email address.     # Output for invalid email address
Enter email: sender@gmail.com
Enter email password: 

---Enter receiver credentials---
Enter email: receiver@gmail.com

---Enter url of repository---
Enter url: https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc.git

---Enter branch name within repository---
Enter branch: master

1. Enter the sender email address
   1. Invalid email address (not following regular expression format of email address) prompts entry for sender email address until valid
2. Enter the sender password
3. Enter the receiver email address
   1. Invalid email address (not following regular expression format of email address) prompts entry for receiver email address until valid
4. Enter url of repository
   1. Invalid repository url (not following regular expression format of Github repository) prompts entry for repository url until valid
5. Enter branch name
   1. Invalid branch name (not following regular expression format of Github branch names) prompts entry for branch name until valid

Output

C:\Send-CLOC-Report\> python send_cloc_report.py
Creating CLOC report...
cloc-master_08-25-2021.csv
Creating CSV file...
Emailing CLOC report to a@gmail.com...

CSV Output