Looker Janitor

The GitHub Action to clean your Looker LookML view files.

• Quick Start
• Features
• Usage Examples
• Inputs

Quick Start

Add this as a step to a workflow file:

- name: Run Looker Janitor
  uses: alhankeser/looker-janitor-action@v0

See more advanced usage examples below

Features

• Order field types (e.g. filters, dimensions, measures)
• Order fields (including by label and localized labels if need be)
• Order field parameters (e.g. type, label, description, sql...)
• Move primary key to top of dimensions list
• Check for missing field parameters and report in %f:%l: %m format

Usage Examples

End-to-end usage example:

name: Looker Janitor
on:
    pull_request:
        types:  [opened, synchronize]

jobs:
    run-looker-janitor:
        permissions:
            contents: write
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        steps:
            - name: Run Looker Janitor
              id: looker_janitor
              uses: alhankeser/looker-janitor-action@v0
              with:
                check_required_params: false
                required_dimension: |
                  hidden
                  type
                required_measure: |
                  value_format_name
            - name: Get Changed Files
              id: changed_files
              uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v44
              with:
                files: |
                    **.view.lkml
                    **.view.lookml
            - name: Commit Cleaned Files
              shell: bash
              run: |
                for file in ${{ steps.changed_files.outputs.all_changed_files }}; do
                    git add "${file}"
                done
                git commit -m "Run Looker Janitor" || continue
                git push
            - name: Setup Review Dog
              uses: reviewdog/action-setup@v1
            - name: Run Review Dog
              shell: bash
              env:
                REVIEWDOG_GITHUB_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
              run: |
                cat looker-janitor/output.txt | reviewdog -efm="%f:%l: %m" -reporter=github-pr-annotations -level warning -filter-mode=nofilter

By default, any changed view.lookml/lkml files will be updated by Looker Janitor. You can choose to override that by passing a custom list of files:

- name: Run Looker Janitor
  uses: alhankeser/looker-janitor-action@v0
  with:
    files: |
      customers.view.lkml
      orders.view.lkml

Override the default field type ordering and put dimensions above filters:

- name: Run Looker Janitor
  uses: alhankeser/looker-janitor-action@v0
  with:
    type_order: |
      dimension
      filter
      measure 

Turn off type ordering entirely:

- name: Run Looker Janitor
  uses: alhankeser/looker-janitor-action@v0
  with:
    order_types: false

Provide a localization filepath to order labels by localized label value:

- name: Run Looker Janitor
  uses: alhankeser/looker-janitor-action@v0
  with:
    localization_file_path: samples/en.strings.json

Don't order fields by their labels and instead use field names:

- name: Run Looker Janitor
  uses: alhankeser/looker-janitor-action@v0
  with:
    order_fields_by_label: false

Turn off field ordering entirely:

- name: Run Looker Janitor
  uses: alhankeser/looker-janitor-action@v0
  with:
    order_fields: false

Set an order in which field parameters should be sorted: If only a subset of paraters are provided, all remaining parameters will remain in their current order.

- name: Run Looker Janitor
  uses: alhankeser/looker-janitor-action@v0
  with:
    param_order: |
      type
      label
      description
      sql

Override the default and don't put primary key first in list of dimensions:

- name: Run Looker Janitor
  uses: alhankeser/looker-janitor-action@v0
  with:
    primary_key_first: false  

Check for required parameters and specify what parameters are required for measures:

- name: Run Looker Janitor
  uses: alhankeser/looker-janitor-action@v0
  with:
    check_required_params: true
    required_dimension: |
      type
      label
    required_measure: value_format_name
- name: Print Output
  shell: bash
  run: |
    cat looker-janitor/output.txt

The contents of looker-janitor/output.txt is in the following format %f:%l: %m (errorformat):

samples/example_input.view.lkml:29: dimension 'customer_id' missing label
samples/example_input.view.lkml:34: dimension 'order_date' missing label
samples/example_input.view.lkml:39: dimension 'order_status' missing label
samples/example_input.view.lkml:52: measure 'average_order_value' missing value_format_name
samples/example_input.view.lkml:59: measure 'count' missing value_format_name
samples/example_input.view.lkml:65: measure 'total_sales' missing value_format_name

When combined with reviewdog, you can get something that looks like this:

Inputs

name	required	type	description	default
files	false	string	List of files to clean. If omitted, then any changed view files will be cleaned.	''
type_order	false	string	Order of field types.	filter parameter dimension dimension_group measure set
param_order	false	string	Order of field parameters.	hidden type view_label group_label group_item_label label description sql sql_start sql_end filters value_format_name value_format drill_fields
primary_key_first	false	boolean	Should primary key be ordered first.	true
order_types	false	boolean	Should fields be ordered by their type.	true
order_fields	false	boolean	Should fields be ordered.	true
order_field_parameters	false	boolean	Should field parameters be ordered.	true
order_fields_by_label	false	boolean	Should fields be ordered by their labels.	true
localization_file_path	false	string	Localization file path to use for label sorting	None
check_required_params	false	boolean	Should required field parameters be checked and output to looker-janitor/output.txt	false
required_filter	false	string	List of required filter parameters. If missing, reported in output.	type
required_parameter	false	string	List of required parameter parameters. If missing, reported in output.	type
required_dimension	false	string	List of required dimension parameters. If missing, reported in output.	type
required_dimension_group	false	string	List of required dimension_group parameters. If missing, reported in output.	type
required_measure	false	string	List of required measure parameters. If missing, reported in output.	type
required_set	false	string	List of required set parameters. If missing, reported in output.	fields