christothes/IssueOutputAction

Search Issues and Output as an Artifact

Searches Issues based on configured criteria and outputs the results as json per issue into an Artifact. Stacks with other actions that expect a set of Issues as an Artifact.

Building and testing

Install the dependencies

$ npm install

Build the typescript and package it for distribution

$ npm run build && npm run pack

Run the tests ✔️

$ npm run test

Usage

See action.yml For comprehensive list of options.

Basic:

name: "Search and output issues"
on:
  schedule:
  - cron: "0 0 * * *"

jobs:
  search:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/IssueOutputAction@v1.0
      with:
        repotoken: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        searchquery: 'event hubs is:open'
        repoOwnerAndName: 'Azure/azure-sdk-for-net'

Configure milestone filters (filter searched issues to only those associated to an open milestone with a due date in the future):

name: "Search and output issues"
on:
  schedule:
  - cron: "0 0 * * *"

jobs:
  search:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/IssueOutputAction@v1.0
      with:
        repotoken: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        searchquery: 'event hubs is:open'
        repoOwnerAndName: 'Azure/azure-sdk-for-net'
        searchByAssociatedMilestoneState: 'open'
        searchByAssociatedMilestoneDueDate: 'future'

Debugging

To see debug output from this action, you must set the secret ACTIONS_STEP_DEBUG to true in your repository.