Autogenerating parameters in YAML for github action dispatch events

[MaddoScientisto]

The github actions API allows triggering builds through the API like this:

curl \
  -X POST \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ 
  -H "Authorization: token <TOKEN>" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/OWNER/REPO/actions/workflows/WORKFLOW_ID/dispatches \
  -d '{"ref":"topic-branch","inputs":{"name":"Mona the Octocat","home":"San Francisco, CA"}}'

How can these inputs be generated through the yaml generator?
I tried this

[GitHubActions("continuous",
               GitHubActionsImage.WindowsServer2022,
               InvokedTargets = new[] { nameof(BuildSetup) },
               On = new[] { GitHubActionsTrigger.WorkflowDispatch },
               EnableGitHubToken = true, OnWorkflowDispatchOptionalInputs = new []{"name", "home"},
)]

in the hope that would send that name parameter to the build script but all I get is a very unhelpful error when trying a build and the workflow yml is generated.

One or more errors occurred. (Process 'dotnet.exe' exited with code -1.
   > "C:\Program Files\dotnet\dotnet.exe" C:\Users\Maddo\Documents\GitHub\Plugin\build\bin\Debug\_build.dll --generate-configuration GitHubActions_continuous --host GitHubActions
   @ C:\Users\Maddo\Documents\GitHub\Plugin
)

How do I generate these parameters properly?
This is not in the documentation on the site for some reason

[matkoch]

Try executing the command that is shown. I haven't looked into that area for a long time.

[MaddoScientisto]

In the end I found out that I had to remove the "On" line if I want the OnWorkflowDispatchOptionalInputs to work

[matkoch]

@MaddoScientisto would be nice if you could give the project a star 👍