Github workflow parameter types too narrow

[y-nk]

Description of the JSON schema.

required_contexts should allow [] such as: required_contexts: []

Supporting information.

[ngraef]

Action inputs are strings. Numbers and booleans are allowed for convenience when writing yaml, but they get converted to strings too. In this case, octokit/request-action would need to support parsing an array from a string representation — CSV, JSON, or multiline string for example. Have you tried passing the empty array as a string like required_contexts: '[]'?

[y-nk]

The github action expects an array, not a string containing brackets. Of course this would solve the schemastore issue since the type would become string, but the api call would fail since it doesn't expect a string.

[ngraef]

The github action expects an array, not a string containing brackets.

Structured input (maps and lists) cannot be passed to an action as an input value unless it is represented as a string. That's a limitation of the GitHub Actions runner, and the schema in SchemaStore simply reflects that behavior. It is the responsibility of octokit/request-action to accept a stringified array representation (for example, '[]') and correctly parse that value and send it to the GitHub API as an array.