fix secrets stored in JSON format, revert #473 (#478)

integrationTests/e2e/e2e.test.js

@@ -12,9 +12,6 @@ describe('e2e', () => {
         expect(process.env.SUBSEQUENT_TEST_SECRET).toBe("SUBSEQUENT_TEST_SECRET");
         expect(process.env.JSONSTRING).toBe('{"x":1,"y":"qux"}');
         expect(process.env.JSONSTRINGMULTILINE).toBe('{"x": 1, "y": "q\\nux"}');
-
-        let result = JSON.stringify('{"x":1,"y":"qux"}');
-        result = result.substring(1, result.length - 1);
-        expect(process.env.JSONDATA).toBe(result);
+        expect(process.env.JSONDATA).toBe('{"x":1,"y":"qux"}');
     });
 });

src/action.test.js

@@ -223,10 +223,7 @@ describe('exportSecrets', () => {
     it('JSON data secret retrieval', async () => {
         const jsonData = {"x":1,"y":2};
 
-        // for secrets stored in Vault as pure JSON, we call stringify twice
-        // and remove the surrounding quotes
-        let result = JSON.stringify(JSON.stringify(jsonData));
-        result = result.substring(1, result.length - 1);
+        let result = JSON.stringify(jsonData);
 
         mockInput('test key');
         mockVaultData({

src/secrets.js

@@ -82,18 +82,7 @@ async function selectData(data, selector) {
     }
 
     if (result.startsWith(`"`)) {
-        // Support multi-line secrets like JSON strings and ssh keys, see https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-action/pull/173
-        // Deserialize the value so that newlines and special characters are
-        // not escaped in our return value.
         result = JSON.parse(result);
-    } else {
-        // Support secrets stored in Vault as pure JSON, see https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-action/issues/194
-        // Serialize the value so that any special characters in the data are
-        // properly escaped.
-        result = JSON.stringify(result);
-        // strip the surrounding quotes added by stringify because the data did
-        // not have them in the first place
-        result = result.substring(1, result.length - 1);
     }
     return result;
 }