Variables and Context #1
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| # I am a workflow that demonstrates how to output the different context objects | |
| name: Variables and Context | |
| # Controls when the action will run. Workflow runs when manually triggered using the UI | |
| # or API. | |
| on: | |
| workflow_dispatch: | |
| # Inputs the workflow accepts. | |
| inputs: | |
| name: | |
| # Friendly description to be shown in the UI instead of 'name' | |
| description: 'Person to greet' | |
| # Default value if no value is explicitly provided | |
| default: 'World' | |
| # Input has to be provided for the workflow to run | |
| required: true | |
| env: | |
| VAR1: myworkflowvar1 | |
| VAR2: myworkflowvar2 | |
| VAR3: myworkflowvar3 | |
| # A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel | |
| jobs: | |
| job1: | |
| runs-on: ubuntu-latest | |
| # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job | |
| steps: | |
| - name: Dump GitHub context | |
| env: | |
| GITHUB_CONTEXT: ${{ toJSON(github) }} | |
| run: echo "$GITHUB_CONTEXT" | |
| #step/job output variables | |
| job2: | |
| runs-on: ubuntu-latest | |
| outputs: | |
| output1: ${{ steps.step1.outputs.step1value }} | |
| output2: ${{ steps.step2.outputs.step2value }} | |
| steps: | |
| - name: Step 1 | |
| id: step1 | |
| # run: echo "::set-output name=step1value::hello" | |
| run: echo "step1value=hello" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT | |
| - name: Step 2 | |
| id: step2 | |
| # run: echo "::set-output name=step2value::world" | |
| run: echo "step2value=world" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT | |
| job3: | |
| runs-on: ubuntu-latest | |
| needs: job2 | |
| steps: | |
| - run: echo ${{needs.job2.outputs.output1}} ${{needs.job2.outputs.output2}} | |
| # access/set env variables | |
| job4: | |
| runs-on: ubuntu-latest | |
| env: | |
| VAR2: myjobvar2 | |
| VAR3: myjobvar3 | |
| steps: | |
| - run: | | |
| echo $VAR1 | |
| echo ${{env.VAR1}} | |
| echo "" | |
| echo $VAR2 | |
| echo $VAR3 | |
| env: | |
| VAR3: mystepvar3 |