Consider some output variables

Question

Consider some output variables

fiddlermikey opened this issue 2 years ago · comments

When choosing the "latest" tag I find myself wanting to know which tag name it is using.

I would like to be able to refer to the outputs of this action to use in another step in the same workflow to create logs and upload release artifacts.

I could use another action like actions/create-release but I think having the information available in this action would be more reliable.

Some create-release actions output basic reusable properties such as

Action Outputs

Output name	Description
id	The identifier of the created release.
html_url	The HTML URL of the release.
upload_url	The URL for uploading assets to the release.

Robin Raju · Answer 1 · Wed Jul 06 2022 03:45:02 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This sounds like a good addition to this action. I can add the tag_name of a release to the output, as it is readily available.

Robin Raju · Answer 2 · Wed Jul 06 2022 19:50:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@fiddlermikey I just merged a PR which adds the tag_name output variable to this action. You may use it from the main branch as follows

- uses: robinraju/release-downloader@a2560d77c56d90bc684e42df51576a951cd49b86
  with:
    latest: true
    fileName: "foo.zip"

it can be accessed as follows

${{steps.<step-id>.outputs.tag_name}}

I'll publish a new version once you confirm it works as expected.

Mikey Henderson · Answer 3 · Thu Jul 07 2022 03:17:51 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I am getting the following error:
Error: unable to verify the first certificate when using release-downloader@main

Reverting back to 1.4 the error went away

name: Get Latest Release
on: [push, repository_dispatch, workflow_dispatch]

jobs:
  build:
    name: FindLatestRelease
    runs-on: windows-latest
    steps:
      - name: Download Release Asset
        id: downloadAsset
        uses: robinraju/release-downloader@[main | v1.4]
        with:
          repository: ${{ github.repository }}  
          token: ${{ github.token }}
          latest: true
          fileName: "*.zip"
          github-api-url: "https://keyfactor.com/api/v3"
        
      - name: debug output
        run: |
          echo "latestReleaseTag = ${{ steps.downloadAsset.outputs.tag_name }}"

Robin Raju · Answer 4 · Thu Jul 07 2022 21:47:24 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

A similar issue with a solution described here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71658093/github-actions-self-hosted-runner-error-unable-to-verify-the-first-certificate

Can you try that and see if it works.

And more here: https://github.com/actions/runner/blob/main/docs/checks/sslcert.md

Mikey Henderson · Answer 5 · Tue Jul 12 2022 23:57:52 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The first link is to a solution for self-hosted runners behind a firewall and the second requires access to the runner OS configuration and I am using the github hosted windows-latest runner and do not have the option to mess with the configuration.

Robin Raju · Answer 6 · Wed Jul 13 2022 20:20:55 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I am using the github hosted windows-latest runner

in that case its not required to use the github-api-url: "https://keyfactor.com/api/v3" param.
this option is only for github enterprise hosted on a custom domain.

This option is required if the target repo is hosted on GH enterprise. Unfortunately, I haven't used GH enterprise, and this action is not tested against a real one.

Damien Plénard · Answer 7 · Wed Aug 10 2022 06:52:12 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi @robinraju Can you create a new release ? I'm not able to use tag_name in the latest release.