feat: check for pending status after comment

keep re-trying until state changes to pending, up to 3 times. if state does not change, remove from history so another run will retry

src/index.mjs

@@ -6,11 +6,14 @@ import getPull from './lib/get_pull.mjs';
 import getCommits from './lib/get_commits.mjs';
 import getCommitStatus from './lib/get_commit_status.mjs';
 import createPullComment from './lib/create_pull_comment.mjs';
+import execAndCheck from './lib/exec_and_check.mjs';
 import History from './lib/history.mjs';
 
 // load env vars from .env file
 dotenv.config();
 
+const sleep = async ms => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
+
 async function ghActionBot() {
   // parse repo name from cli and create repo instance
   const repo = createRepo(process.argv.splice(2)[0]);
@@ -22,6 +25,7 @@ async function ghActionBot() {
     PULL_LABEL_FILTER,
     PULL_AUTHOR_FILTER,
     PULL_RETEST_BODY,
+    ACTION_RETRY_DELAY = 3000,
   } = process.env;
 
   // load the history module
@@ -90,7 +94,23 @@ async function ghActionBot() {
 
   await Promise.all(
     records.map(record =>
-      createPullComment(repo, record.pull.number, PULL_RETEST_BODY, { delete: true })
+      execAndCheck(
+        () => createPullComment(repo, record.pull.number, PULL_RETEST_BODY, { delete: true }),
+        async () => {
+          logger.debug(`CHECK #${record.pull.number}: verify state change`);
+
+          // wait for the ci to restart
+          await sleep(ACTION_RETRY_DELAY);
+
+          // check that the commit status is now pending
+          const buildStatus = await getCommitStatus(repo, record.commit.sha);
+          return buildStatus.state === 'pending';
+        },
+        () => {
+          history.remove(record.comment);
+          logger.error(`Pull comment failed to trigger action on pull #${record.pull.number}`);
+        }
+      )
     )
   );
 }

src/lib/exec_and_check.mjs

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-export default async function execAndCheck(fn, test, onFailure = () => {}, opts = { tries: 3 }) {
+export default async function execAndCheck(fn, test, onFailure = () => {}) {
   let count = 0;
 
   const tryExec = async () => {
@@ -9,9 +9,11 @@ export default async function execAndCheck(fn, test, onFailure = () => {}, opts
     const res = await test();
     if (res) return;
 
+    const { ACTION_RETRY_COUNT = 3 } = process.env;
+
     // if retry limit is hit, call failure function
     count += 1;
-    if (count >= opts.tries) return onFailure(); // eslint-disable-line consistent-return
+    if (count >= ACTION_RETRY_COUNT) return onFailure(); // eslint-disable-line consistent-return
 
     // retry the function and retest the results
     return tryExec(); // eslint-disable-line consistent-return