⚠️ GitHub release failed with status: 422 undefined

[yektasarioglu]

Suddenly, I got this 422 undefined error once again.

      - name: Create Github Release
        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          tag_name: ${{ env.LATEST_GIT_TAG }}
          generate_release_notes: true
          files: web/backend/build/libs/backend.jar

Any ideas? Thank you.

[andrespayclip]

Having the same issue with the softprops/action-gh-release@v0.1.15 version

[HienLeGcx]

After I upgraded from softprops/action-gh-release@v1 to softprops/action-gh-release@v2, I also got this error:

      - name: Create GitHub release
        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
        with:
          name: Dev Release ${{ steps.version.outputs.version-name }}
          prerelease: true
          files: "**/app/build/outputs/apk/dev/release/**"
          fail_on_unmatched_files: true
          generate_release_notes: true

[softprops]

hrm I'm expecting the response errors printed in the errors above

action-gh-release/src/github.ts

Line 316 in 9d7c94c

}\n${JSON.stringify(error.response.data.errors)}\nretrying... (${

but I'm seeing undefined. typically github provides error information to help inform why the response failed. One step wise improvement I could make is to try and dump the entire response so that we can see exactly what is causing the 422

[HienLeGcx]

After I upgraded from softprops/action-gh-release@v1 to softprops/action-gh-release@v2, I also got this error:

      - name: Create GitHub release
        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
        with:
          name: Dev Release ${{ steps.version.outputs.version-name }}
          prerelease: true
          files: "**/app/build/outputs/apk/dev/release/**"
          fail_on_unmatched_files: true
          generate_release_notes: true

Another note from my side, althogh the Create Github release action runned into error, it succeeded creating a new Github release 😅.

[iamKunal]

If you have generate_release_notes and getting 422 double check your .github/release.yml and its structure. I had the same issue.

[yektasarioglu]

I was about to write the same thing as @iamKunal suggested. The issue seems to happen due to the incorrect indentation of the .github/release.yml file. Thanks to IntelliJ, it took me awhile to figure it out 😅.