Dispatcher #1017
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| # This action is centrally managed in https://github.com/<organization>/.github/ | |
| # Don't make changes to this file in this repo as they will be overwritten with changes made to the same file in | |
| # the above-mentioned repo. | |
| # This action receives a dispatch event and passes it through to another repo. This is a workaround to avoid issues | |
| # where fork PRs do not have access to secrets. | |
| name: Dispatcher | |
| on: | |
| workflow_dispatch: | |
| inputs: | |
| dispatch_repository: | |
| description: 'Repository to dispatch to' | |
| required: true | |
| dispatch_workflow: | |
| description: 'Workflow to dispatch to' | |
| required: true | |
| dispatch_ref: | |
| description: 'Ref/branch to dispatch to' | |
| required: true | |
| dispatch_inputs: | |
| description: 'Inputs to send' | |
| required: true | |
| jobs: | |
| dispatcher: | |
| name: Repository Dispatch | |
| runs-on: ubuntu-latest | |
| steps: | |
| - name: Unescape JSON control characters | |
| id: inputs | |
| run: | | |
| # get the inputs | |
| dispatch_inputs=${{ github.event.inputs.dispatch_inputs }} | |
| echo "$dispatch_inputs" | |
| # temporarily replace newlines with a placeholder | |
| dispatch_inputs=$(echo ${dispatch_inputs} | sed 's/\\\\n/_!new_line!_/g') | |
| # remove newline characters | |
| dispatch_inputs=$(echo ${dispatch_inputs} | sed 's/\\n//g') | |
| # replace placeholder with newline | |
| dispatch_inputs=$(echo ${dispatch_inputs} | sed 's/_!new_line!_/\\n/g') | |
| # replace escaped quotes with unescaped quotes | |
| dispatch_inputs=$(echo ${dispatch_inputs} | sed 's/\\"//g') | |
| # debug echo | |
| echo "$dispatch_inputs" | |
| # parse as JSON | |
| dispatch_inputs=$(echo "$dispatch_inputs" | jq -c .) | |
| # debug echo | |
| echo "$dispatch_inputs" | |
| echo "dispatch_inputs=$dispatch_inputs" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT | |
| - name: Workflow Dispatch | |
| uses: benc-uk/[email protected] | |
| with: | |
| repo: ${{ github.event.inputs.dispatch_repository }} | |
| ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.dispatch_ref || 'master' }} # default to master if not specified | |
| workflow: ${{ github.event.inputs.dispatch_workflow }} | |
| inputs: ${{ steps.inputs.outputs.dispatch_inputs }} | |
| token: ${{ secrets.GH_BOT_TOKEN || github.token }} # fallback to default token if not specified |