How to pass a multi-line argument to request-action about request-action HOT 9 CLOSED

@uditgaurav

My if condition is very larger in size and I want to write it in multiple lines. Is there any way to do that?

Much like you would use |, use >- (the "block styles with block chomping indicator"). Unlike |, it strips the the newlines (and doesn't leave a newline at the end). For more info see https://stackoverflow.com/a/21699210/3217306

- name: Running all tests
  if: >-
    startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/run-e2e-all') ||
    startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/run-e2e-first-test') ||
    startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/run-e2e-second-test') ||
    startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/run-e2e-third-test')
  # etc.
  run: |
    echo "Hello all"

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I tried many routes, what ended up working for me is adding an additional | to tell yaml.safeLoad, that it is actually reading a multi-line string.

...
  body: |
    |
    My muti-line comment
      - [ ] a
      - [ ] b
...

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A similar type of issue I'm facing:
My if condition is very larger in size and I want to write it in multiple lines. Is there any way to do that?

      - name: Running all tests
        if: startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/run-e2e-all') || startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/run-e2e-first-test') || startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/run-e2e-second-test') || startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/run-e2e-third-test') || startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/run-e2e-fourth-test') || startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/run-e2e-fifth-test') || startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/run-e2e-sixth-test') || startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/run-e2e-seventh-test') || startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/run-e2e-eighth-test') || startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/run-e2e-nineth-test') || startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/run-e2e-tenth-test')
        run: |
          echo "Hello all"

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@gr2m, I think the problem is simple to understand now. The values in the with section for octokit/request-action, are always interpreted as yaml documents, and not literally as strings.

I will try to create a simpler test case to reproduce the problem.

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I'm glad you got it working! We added the yaml.safeLoad to allow parameters to be set to JSON strings, so object parameters can be supported. It sounds very odd that it removes the new lines ... your workaround looks odd to me, too. I feel like there should be proper way to do this, but I don't have the time to look into it myself right now, maybe you or someone else can dig into this?

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@gr2m, since this issue is closed what is the recommended method for passing in a multi-line body? Is it still to double-up the pipe as in #6 (comment)?

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Good question! I think that a single | should suffice, could you please give it a try?

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Good question! I think that a single | should suffice, could you please give it a try?

I ask because I was still seeing issues with a multi-line body, but there may be an additional factor at play. For us, we're seeing an error when the multi-line body includes colon (:) characters. I'll create a new issue.

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we're seeing an error when the multi-line body includes colon (:) characters. I'll create a new issue.

Ah I think I know what's happening. Yes, let's discuss in the new issue

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