生成 release log automatically-generated-release-notes
Anyway to check the error message and retry?
输入输出多行
如何上传可执行文件到 release 中 (draft)
action 不再允许 if 中使用 secrets 参数进行判断¹²
Action Cache
Auto upload to Marketplace
Reusable Workflow

输入参数多行
echo multiline strings in github action
同样的问题还出现在 setting error message 中(这里只讨论直接在 yaml 文件中输出的情况), 输出 \n 的文件只会输出第一行, 用如下方式解决:

ERR_MSG=$(cat err.log)
ERR_MSG="${ERR_MSG//'%'/'%25'}"
ERR_MSG="${ERR_MSG//$'\n'/'%0A'}"
ERR_MSG="${ERR_MSG//$'\r'/'%0D'}"
echo "::error title=err::$ERR_MSG"

Anyway to check the error message and retry?
1. 社区里面用 || 来 retry 命令, 但是我这个 shell 着实繁琐又不想写个 sh 文件, 忽略³
2. 还有种思路就是利用 2> file 输出错误信息, 判断⁴, 然后利用 workflow 的 API 来重新调用⁵, 调用代码如下
  - 注意 failure() 标识此 job 中存在失败
  - ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }} 注意给 workflow 的权限
  - workflow_id 目前好像只能通过 list workflows 的 API 来获取
  - 可能导致无限调用, 但是可以将 retry 次数当做 input 传入, 然后判断大于多少次直接 exit 1
  - continue-on-error: true⁶ 会导致 failure 判断失效

- name: Failed
if: ${{ failure() }}
run: |
  if grep -q 'errorMessage' err.log;
  then curl --location --request POST 'https://api.github.com/repos/xxx/xxx/actions/workflows/xxxx/dispatches' \
  --header 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json' \
  --header 'Authorization: token ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{
      "ref": "main",
      "inputs": {
          "xxx": "${{github.event.inputs.xxx}}"
      }
  }'
  fi

注意一点, workflow_call 不允许自己调用自己(错误信息如下), 所以可能只有上述方法可行

error parsing called workflow "bxb100/xxx/.github/workflows/download.yml@main": job "retry" calls workflow "bxb100/xxx/.github/workflows/download.yml@main", but doing so would exceed the limit on called workflow depth of 2

如何上传可执行文件到 release 中 (draft)

首先需要先创建一个 git ref tag 对应的 draft release, 注意此时的 tag 如果没有的话 GitHub 也不会主动给你绑定

see https://gist.github.com/bxb100/d2fedcb3cdc897062ee03920d6ae83be

upload the artifact
download artifacts, and compress them
using gh upload to the release

     - name: Upload
        run: |
          until gh release upload --clobber --repo ${{ github.repository }} ${{ github.event.inputs.tag }} *.zip *.tar.gz; do
            echo "Attempt $((++attempts)) to upload release artifacts failed. Will retry in 20s"
            sleep 20
          done
        timeout-minutes: 10
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Examples

https://github.com/temporalio/sdk-java/actions/runs/3132010440/workflow

Github Action Cache Path

https://github.com/actions/toolkit/blob/e98bae803b6520b2a331f66011d812c3af8bf6ae/packages/cache

At the beginning, I tried to understand this path as a specified file glob expression, like this: ~/.m2/repository/**

but correct the way is upload directory like this: ~/.m2/repository/*/*/*

So don’t miss the point of what your need

Auto push to Marketplace

一般来说, GitHub action 如果要上传到 marketplace 的话需要生成 dist 目录, 但是可以通过 https://github.com/JasonEtco/build-and-tag-action 项目自动生成 dist 然后自动上传 (去除了非 dist, action.xml, 仓库大小减少了~~)

注意默认 github.token 权限问题: https://github.com/JasonEtco/build-and-tag-action/issues/40 注意一定要有 write 权限…

Reusable workflow

If you using a useable workflow, input with env will cause an error (test secrets, needs.xx.outputs.xxx working now)⁷

The workflow is not valid. xxxx: Unrecognized named-value: 'env'.

My work on https://github.com/BurtonQin/lockbud/pull/49 show that problems

solve the problem using a config like this:

with:
  rust_version: ${{ needs.test.outputs.rust_version }}

Docker

In the Action, we have three ways to use the docker

using container⁸, need to notice that runner is running a docker image
using service⁹, it like expose a port to workflow runtime, so we don’t change the runner env
using docker action¹⁰

在 PR 中使用 secret 的一些手段

使用 pull_request_target¹¹, 我在 https://github.com/bxb100/action-test/pull/16/checks 中测试过, 需要配合 enviroment secret 的授权来做更严格的限制
通过 repository_dispatch 触发¹², 可以参看 https://github.com/1Password/load-secrets-action/blob/85e0e789db06bad7e43b5f7b0c36700967d04155/.github/workflows/ok-to-test.yml 用例, 可以通过 api 也可以通过一个新的 action 来 trigger (没想到的地方是, 这个能关联到正确的 commit-hash 中, 需要进步理解)

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