trigger-action-workflow

Trigger GitHub action workflow file from another repo and wait to it will be done.

Example usage

Here is an example setup of this action:

1. Create a .github/workflows/ci-initiator.yml file in your GitHub repo.
2. Add the following code to the file.

name: CI-Initiator

on:
  push:

jobs:
  startCI:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Get Short SHA
        id: vars
        run: |
          echo ::set-output name=sha_short::${GITHUB_SHA::7}

      - name: Trigger Remote Action
        uses: AndyKIron/trigger-action-workflow@main
        with:
          owner: REMOTE_REPO_OWNER # remote repository owner
          repo: REMOTE_REPO_NAME #remote repository name
          github_token: ${{ secrets.PAT_TOKEN }} # your token
          workflow_file_name: ci.yml # remote action workflow file name
          job_name_substring: "::${{github.ref_name}}:${{ steps.vars.outputs.sha_short }}"
          inputs: '{ "branch_name": "${{github.ref_name}}", "user": "${{github.actor}}", "sha": "${{ steps.vars.outputs.sha_short }}"}'

      - name: Done
        run: |
          echo "Workflow Done"

Inputs (with)

Variable		Purpose
owner	required	Remote repository owner name
repo	required	Remote repository name
github_token	required	Generated Personal Access Token
workflow_file_name	required	Remote action workflow filename (with .extension)
job_name_substring	required	Some unique string to identify the running remote action workflow
inputs	required	JSON for remote action inputs

3. On remote target action workflow file (ci.yml for example) you need add needed inputs
4. And one (first) stem must have "name:" with "job_name_substring"

name: CI-Starter

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      branch_name:
        required: true
      user:
        required: true
      sha:
        required: true

jobs:
  # --- Do Job Initiator for ci_initiator can find it in from API
  ci-init:
    name: 'CI-Init::${{ github.event.inputs.branch_name }}:${{ github.event.inputs.sha }}'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - run: |
          echo "Start CI for ${{ github.event.inputs.user }}:${{ github.event.inputs.branch_name }}:${{ github.event.inputs.sha }}"
  ...
  ...
  ...