util-actions

A set of utility actions for use in GitHub action workflows.

Usage

Actions in this repo can be used by referencing the folder in which they live and a tag e.g.

- uses: OctopusDeploy/util-actions/[email protected]

Note: At the moment only specific tags are supported, there is no major version available.

Actions

add-changeset

This action allows you to add a changeset to your project to help with automation scenarios, particularly around pre-release package creation and publishing. The action will search your repository to find any packages and add a changeset with the configured SemVer type and summary message to your repo. Note this action does not commit the changeset, it only creates the file for consumption within the rest of your workflow.

For example you might to create a set of pre-release npm packages for each commit to the main branch or in a PR and you want these all to have the same version with all the dependencies aligned correctly. Versioning your packages with changesets normally will only bump any packages that are listed in a changeset plus any packages with updated dependencies, you can use this action to automatically add an additional changeset to bump any other packages.

Inputs

Name	Description	Required
type	The version type to set for each package in the changeset (major, minor, patch)	Y
summary	The summary for the changeset	Y
filter	A regular expression to filter packages using the name of the package (from package.json)	N
ignore	Array of glob patterns to ignore packages with	N
cwd	The current working directory where the .changeset folder lives. This is typically the root of your repo and defaults to this if not supplied.	N

Outputs

Name	Description
changesetName	The name of the changeset created
changesetPath	The path to the changeset created

Example

- uses: OctopusDeploy/util-actions/[email protected]
  with:
    type: patch
    summary: Changeset added for pre-release versioning
    ignore: |
      node_modules/**
      **/__tests__/**
    filter: "@octopusdeploy" # Only include any packages with a scope of @octopusdeploy

current-branch-name

This action allows you to get a sanitised branch details for use in subsequent GitHub action steps.

Inputs

Name	Description	Required
additional_strings_to_replace	A multiline string of values to replace in the branch name. Default value of "/"	N
replacement_value	The value to replace replacement_strings with. Default value of "-".	N
github_ref	The input for the github.ref. NOTE: this value should not need to be provided, unless you need to override the default.	N
github_head_ref	The input for the github.head_ref. NOTE: this value should not need to be provided, unless you need to override the default.	N
github_event_name	The input for the github.event_name. NOTE: this value should not need to be provided, unless you need to override the default.	N

Outputs

Name	Description
branch_name	Returns the current branch for the repository.

Example

- uses: OctopusDeploy/util-actions/[email protected]
  with:
    additional_strings_to_replace: '/'
    replacement_value: '-'

extract-package-details

This action allows you to extract the name and version from within an npm package given the path to the directory of the package.

Inputs

Name	Description	Required
path	Path to the directory containing the package.json file	Y

Outputs

Name	Description
name	The name of the package
version	The version of the package

Example

- uses: OctopusDeploy/util-actions/[email protected]
  with:
    path: /path/to/my/package

find-and-replace-all

This action allows you to find and replace all instances of a string using a direct string search or a regular expression.

Inputs

Name	Description	Required
source	The text to have replacement run on it	Y
searchString	The string to search for	N
searchRegex	A regular expression to search with	N
searchRegexFlags	Flags to add to the regular expression. The global flag will always be added.	N
replace	The text to replace with	Y

Outputs

Name	Description
value	The new string after find-and-replace-all has been run

Example

String

String replacement is case-sensitive.

- uses: OctopusDeploy/util-actions/[email protected]
  with:
    source: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
    searchString: the
    replace: hooray

This will result in an output variable named value with a value of The quick brown fox jumps over hooray lazy dog. The case-sensitivity here is important to note.

Regular Expression

- uses: OctopusDeploy/util-actions/[email protected]
  with:
    source: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
    searchRegex: the
    searchRegexFlags: i # case-insensitive
    replace: hooray

This will result in an output variable named value with a value of hooray quick brown fox jumps over hooray lazy dog.