This action helps you trigger downstream actions with a custom command made via a comment in a pull request, otherwhise known as ChatOps. This action is a workaround that uses a GitHub App to make an issue label that then can trigger an Action.

name: Demo
on: [issue_comment]

jobs:
  label-pr:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@master
      - name: test
        uses: machine-learning-apps/actions-chatops-workaround@master
        with:
          APP_PEM: ${{ secrets.APP_PEM }}
          APP_ID: ${{ secrets.APP_ID }}
          TRIGGER_PHRASE: "/test-trigger-comment"
          INDICATOR_LABEL: "test-label"

A demonstration of this in action can be found on this PR.

• APP_PEM:

  • description: string version of your PEM file used to authenticate as a GitHub App
  • required: true

• APP_ID:

  • description: you GITHUB App ID.
  • required: true

• TRIGGER_PHRASE:

  • description: this is the phrase in a PR comment that you want to trigger downstream Actions. Example - "/deploy-app-test"
  • required: true

• INDICATOR_LABEL:

  • description: label that wil be added to the PR if a triggering comment is detected. This is used to trigger downstream Actions with the right context of the PR.
  • required: true

• TEST_EVENT_PATH:

  • description: An alternate place to fetch the payload for testing and debugging when making changes to this Action. This is set to they system environment variable $GITHUB_EVENT_PATH by default.
  • require: false default: ""