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Dispatcher #2

Workflow file for this run

---
# 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