parse-issue-comment-action

This is a Github action, highly infuenced from https://github.com/peter-murray/issue-body-parser-action. The main use case is for this action to be triggered by a Github issue comment in order to parse a JSON or YAML payload from it.

Inputs

github_token

Required The Github token to use for getting the issue comment via the API.

comment_id

Required The id of the issue comment that will be parsed.

format

Required The format of the payload we expect to be parsing from the comment. Defaults to json

marker

Required The optional marker for the YAML or JSON payload to parse, in case the comment contains multiple. Defaults to "".

Outputs

content

The data that was parsed from the JSON or YAML payload as a string. It can be easily converted to JSON using the fromJSON expression

Example usage

on:
  issue_comment:
    types: [created]
    
jobs:
  do_something:
    name: A job that does something
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Parse comment 
        id: parse
        uses: actions/parse-issue-comment-action@v0.1
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          comment_id: ${{ github.event.comment.id }}
          format: yaml
      - name: Echo the output
        run: echo ${{ steps.parse.outputs.content }} 
      - name: Use the output as JSON
        run: echo ${{ fromJson(steps.parse.outputs.content).some_key }}