Octions

What is an oction?

Octokit + Action = Oction - it is a GitHub Action that exposes single REST API call from @octokit/routes

API

Explore catalog for API relevant for every specific oction.

Common API are listed below:

Common inputs

Name	Type	Description
token	string	Valid token to authorize API calls
file_output	string	Store result of the action in specified file
custom_outputs	multiline string	Custom outputs to create for step. This has to be YAML multiline string literal `custom_outputs:

Read input from file

If value of the input beings with FILE:: the rest of the string is treated as path and oction will use data of that file as value of the input.

Example. This will pust output of cloc as a comment in a pr:

on:
  pull_request:
    types:
      - opened
      - synchronize

jobs:
  cloc:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - run: npx cloc . > cloc.txt
      - uses: maxkomarychev/octions/octions/issues/create-comment@master
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          issue_number: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
          body: FILE::cloc.txt

Common outputs

Name	Description
id	`id` field of the response (if exists)
number	`number` field of the response (if exists)
status	HTTP status of underlying API call

Catalog

Examples

Close every issue immediatelly once it is opened

on:
  issues:
    types:
      - opened

jobs:
  close-issue:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - run: echo "${{ toJson(github.event) }}"
      - uses: maxkomarychev/octions/octions/issues/update@master
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          issue_number: ${{ github.event.issue.number }}
          state: closed
          custom_outputs: |
            user:data.user.login
      - uses: maxkomarychev/octions/octions/issues/create-comment@master
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          issue_number: ${{ github.event.issue.number }}
          body: You can't create issues here!