Tag Replacer

GitHub Action to replace tags in files

Table of contents

• Description
• Inputs
  • sourceData
  • prefix
  • suffix
  • sourceFile
  • placeholder
  • replacement
• Outputs
  • changed
• Examples
• Visitor stats
• Licensing
• Authors
• Versioning
• Contribution
• Acknowledgement
• Forks
• Development Support

Description

Processes input file by replacing tags with provided input parameters.

Inputs

sourceData

Optional JSON data source file with action parameters:

Complete parameters

[
    {
        "prefix": "<!--views:info:marker:start-->\n",
        "suffix": "\n<!--views:info:marker:end-->",
        "sourceFile": "./data/info.md",
        "placeholder": "<!--views:info:marker:start-->[\\s\\S]*?<!--views:info:marker:end-->",
        "replacement": "<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center;\">Info data block</p>"
    },
    {
        "prefix": "<!--views:readme:marker:start-->\n",
        "suffix": "\n<!--views:readme:marker:end-->",
        "sourceFile": "./data/readme.md",
        "placeholder": "<!--views:readme:marker:start-->[\\s\\S]*?<!--views:readme:marker:end-->",
        "replacement": "<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center;\">Readme data block</p>"
    },
    {
        "prefix": "test data\n",
        "suffix": "",
        "sourceFile": "./data/test.md",
        "placeholder": "test data",
        "replacement": "<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center;\">Test data block</p>"
    }
]

Basic parameters

[
    {
        "sourceFile": "./data/info.md",
        "placeholder": "<!--views:info:marker:start-->[\\s\\S]*?<!--views:info:marker:end-->",
        "replacement": "<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center;\">Info data block</p>"
    },
    {
        "sourceFile": "./data/readme.md",
        "placeholder": "<!--views:readme:marker:start-->[\\s\\S]*?<!--views:readme:marker:end-->",
        "replacement": "<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center;\">Readme data block</p>"
    },
    {
        "sourceFile": "./data/test.md",
        "placeholder": "test data",
        "replacement": "<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center;\">Test data block</p>"
    }
]

prefix

Optional String data to prepend before replacement

suffix

Optional String data to append after replacement

sourceFile

Required Input source file to replace in

placeholder

Required String placeholder or regex to replace by

replacement

Required String data to replace with

Outputs

changed

File processing operation status

true

When input source file successfully processed

false

When error occurred while processing input source file

Examples

- name: Replace file placeholders
  uses: alexrogalskiy/github-action-tag-replacer@master
  with:
    prefix: '<!--views:marker:start-->\n'
    suffix: '\n<!--views:marker:end-->'
    sourceFile: './data/info.md'
    placeholder: '<!--views:marker:start-->[\s\S]*?<!--views:marker:end-->'
    replacement: '<p align="center" style="text-align:center;">Data Block</p>'

Running locally:

• npm run start:action --action github-action-tag-replacer --prefix '<!--views:marker:start-->\n' --suffix '\n<!--views:marker:end-->' --sourceFile './data/info.md' --placeHolder '<!--views:marker:start-->[\s\S]*?<!--views:marker:end-->' --replacement '<p align="center" style="text-align:center;">Data Block</p>'

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Licensing

Tag Replacer is distributed under LGPL version 3 or later, [License]. LGPLv3 is additional permissions on top of GPLv3.

Authors

Tag Replacer is maintained by the following GitHub team-members:

• 

with community support please contact with us if you have some question or proposition.

Versioning

The project uses SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Contribution

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us (emoji key).

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind are welcome!

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

Acknowledgement

Forks

Development Support

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