chore: Update the build process to refer the Appsmith version from the info.json in all build artifacts (#29903)

Fixes #29623

Co-authored-by: Shrikant Sharat Kandula <shrikant@appsmith.com>

.github/workflows/client-build.yml

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ jobs:
       github.event_name == 'push' ||
       github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' ||
       github.event_name == 'repository_dispatch' ||
-      github.event_name == 'schedule' 
+      github.event_name == 'schedule'
     defaults:
       run:
         working-directory: app/client
@@ -242,13 +242,6 @@ jobs:
           if [[ "${{github.ref}}" == "refs/heads/release" ]]; then
               echo "REACT_APP_ENVIRONMENT=STAGING" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
           fi
-          # Since this is an unreleased build, we set the version to incremented version number with
-          # a `-SNAPSHOT` suffix.
-          latest_released_version="$(git ls-remote --tags --sort=-v:refname "$(git remote | head -1)" 'v*' | awk -F/ '{print $NF; exit}')"
-          echo "latest_released_version = $latest_released_version"
-          next_version="$(echo "$latest_released_version" | awk -F. -v OFS=. '{ $NF++; print }')"
-          echo "next_version = $next_version"
-          echo version=$next_version-SNAPSHOT >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
 
       # We burn React environment & the Segment analytics key into the build itself.
       # This is to ensure that we don't need to configure it in each installation
@@ -263,8 +256,6 @@ jobs:
           REACT_APP_ENVIRONMENT=${{steps.vars.outputs.REACT_APP_ENVIRONMENT}} \
             REACT_APP_FUSIONCHARTS_LICENSE_KEY=${{ secrets.APPSMITH_FUSIONCHARTS_LICENSE_KEY }} \
             SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN=${{ secrets.SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN }} \
-            REACT_APP_VERSION_ID=${{ steps.vars.outputs.version }} \
-            REACT_APP_VERSION_RELEASE_DATE=$(date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ') \
             REACT_APP_VERSION_EDITION="Community" \
             yarn build
 

.github/workflows/server-build.yml

@@ -145,23 +145,6 @@ jobs:
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-m2-${{ hashFiles('**/pom.xml') }}
           restore-keys: ${{ runner.os }}-m2
 
-      # Here, the GITHUB_REF is of type /refs/head/<branch_name>. We extract branch_name from this by removing the
-      # first 11 characters. This can be used to build images for several branches
-      # Since this is an unreleased build, we get the latest released version number, increment the minor number in it,
-      # append a `-SNAPSHOT` at it's end to prepare the snapshot version number. This is used as the project's version.
-      - name: Get the version to tag the Docker image
-        if: steps.run_result.outputs.run_result != 'success'  && (steps.changed-files-specific.outputs.any_changed == 'true' ||  github.event_name == 'push' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || github.event_name == 'schedule')
-        id: vars
-        run: |
-          # Since this is an unreleased build, we set the version to incremented version number with a
-          # `-SNAPSHOT` suffix.
-          latest_released_version="$(git ls-remote --tags --sort=-v:refname "$(git remote | head -1)" 'v*' | awk -F/ '{print $NF; exit}')"
-          echo "latest_released_version = $latest_released_version"
-          next_version="$(echo "$latest_released_version" | awk -F. -v OFS=. '{ $NF++; print }')"
-          echo "next_version = $next_version"
-          echo version=$next_version-SNAPSHOT >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          echo tag=$(echo ${GITHUB_REF:11}) >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
       # Build the code
       - name: Build
         if: steps.run_result.outputs.run_result != 'success'  && (steps.changed-files-specific.outputs.any_changed == 'true' ||  github.event_name == 'push' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || github.event_name == 'schedule')
@@ -176,10 +159,6 @@ jobs:
           APPSMITH_ENVFILE_PATH: /tmp/dummy.env
           APPSMITH_VERBOSE_LOGGING_ENABLED: false
         run: |
-          mvn --batch-mode versions:set \
-            -DnewVersion=${{ steps.vars.outputs.version }} \
-            -DgenerateBackupPoms=false \
-            -DprocessAllModules=true
           ./build.sh -DskipTests
 
       # Test the code
@@ -246,7 +225,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ "$reponame" = "appsmith" ]; then export repodir="CE"; fi
           if [ "$reponame" = "appsmith-ee" ]; then export repodir="EE"; fi
           cd cibuildcache/$repodir/release/server
-          git lfs pull ./server.jar          
+          git lfs pull ./server.jar
           mv ./server.jar ../../../../../server.jar
           cd ../../../../../
           tar -xzvf ./server.jar

app/server/appsmith-server/src/main/java/com/appsmith/server/ServerApplication.java

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 package com.appsmith.server;
 
+import com.appsmith.server.configurations.ProjectProperties;
 import io.micrometer.observation.ObservationRegistry;
 import io.micrometer.observation.aop.ObservedAspect;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.OpenTelemetry;
 import io.opentelemetry.sdk.autoconfigure.AutoConfiguredOpenTelemetrySdk;
+import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.springframework.boot.Banner;
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
@@ -16,14 +18,28 @@ import static com.appsmith.server.constants.EnvVariables.APPSMITH_NEW_RELIC_ACCO
 
 @SpringBootApplication
 @EnableScheduling
+@Slf4j
 public class ServerApplication {
 
+    private final ProjectProperties projectProperties;
+
+    public ServerApplication(ProjectProperties projectProperties) {
+        this.projectProperties = projectProperties;
+        printBuildInfo();
+    }
+
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         new SpringApplicationBuilder(ServerApplication.class)
                 .bannerMode(Banner.Mode.OFF)
                 .run(args);
     }
 
+    private void printBuildInfo() {
+        String version = projectProperties.getVersion();
+        String commitId = projectProperties.getCommitSha();
+        log.info("Application started with build version {}, and commitSha {}", version, commitId);
+    }
+
     @Bean
     public OpenTelemetry openTelemetry() {
         String instanceName =

app/server/appsmith-server/src/main/java/com/appsmith/server/configurations/ProjectProperties.java

@@ -1,23 +1,40 @@
 package com.appsmith.server.configurations;
 
+import com.appsmith.server.dtos.BuildInfo;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import lombok.Getter;
-import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
+import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.PropertySource;
 
-/**
+import java.io.IOException;
- * Properties in this configuration object are loaded from the `pom.properties` file that is generated by Maven
+import java.nio.file.Files;
- * automatically. This file is included in the final JAR file at
+import java.nio.file.Path;
- * `META-INF/maven/{project.group}/{project.name}/pom.properties`. Outside the JAR file, it can be accessed from
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
- * `target/maven-archiver/pom.properties`.
+
- */
 @Configuration
-@PropertySource(value = "classpath:META-INF/maven/com.appsmith/server/pom.properties", ignoreResourceNotFound = true)
 @Getter
+@Slf4j
 public class ProjectProperties {
+    private static final String INFO_JSON_PATH = "/opt/appsmith/info.json";
+    private static final ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
 
     public static final String EDITION = "CE";
+    private String version = "UNKNOWN";
+    private String commitSha = "UNKNOWN";
 
-    @Value("${version:UNKNOWN}")
+    public ProjectProperties() {
-    private String version;
+        try {
+            Path infoJsonPath = Paths.get(INFO_JSON_PATH);
+            if (Files.exists(infoJsonPath)) {
+                String jsonContent = Files.readString(infoJsonPath);
+                // Parse JSON content using the AppsmithInfo class
+                BuildInfo buildInfo = objectMapper.readValue(jsonContent, BuildInfo.class);
+                version = buildInfo.getVersion();
+                commitSha = buildInfo.getCommitSha();
+            }
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            // Ignore the exception and return "UNKNOWN" as the version
+            log.debug("Error reading version from info.json {}", e.getMessage());
+        }
+    }
 }

app/server/appsmith-server/src/main/java/com/appsmith/server/dtos/BuildInfo.java

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package com.appsmith.server.dtos;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;
+import lombok.Data;
+
+/**
+ * This class is used to parse the JSON content of the info.json file. This file is generated during the build process
+ * and contains the version of the Appsmith server.
+ */
+@Data
+@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
+public class BuildInfo {
+    private String version;
+
+    private String commitSha;
+}

app/server/appsmith-server/src/test/java/com/appsmith/server/controllers/ApplicationControllerTest.java

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package com.appsmith.server.controllers;
 
 import com.appsmith.server.applications.base.ApplicationService;
+import com.appsmith.server.configurations.ProjectProperties;
 import com.appsmith.server.configurations.RedisTestContainerConfig;
 import com.appsmith.server.configurations.SecurityTestConfig;
 import com.appsmith.server.constants.Url;
@@ -87,6 +88,9 @@ public class ApplicationControllerTest {
     @MockBean
     PartialImportService partialImportService;
 
+    @MockBean
+    ProjectProperties projectProperties;
+
     private String getFileName(int length) {
         StringBuilder fileName = new StringBuilder();
         for (int count = 0; count < length; count++) {