The boss

Run any action as you please using custom slash commands and by sending payloads!

Usage

DEMO

workers.json

This file has to be at .boss/workers.json sample

Sample:

[
{	
  "command": "(hello)([\\w+ ]+)",	
  "worker": "hello"	
}
]

• command: Regex to run on issue or PR comment. This regex should be group matching, first group should match the command and rest of groups are sent as payloads to the worker
• worker: Should point to worker file name (with out .yml) in .boss/workers

workers yml

Note: These have to be at .boss/workers/ sample

Just github action yml but only the steps part

Multiple jobs are not supported, we inject one job with the steps in worker

Example:

steps:
- name: Checkout
  uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Hello
  run: |
    echo hey boss, I got ${{ github.event.client_payload.boss_payload_0 }}!  for comment with Id ${{ github.event.client_payload.commentId }}

Payloads from comments

Payloads in your worker workflows can be obtained using prefix github.event.client_payload This action injects payloads using keys boss_payload_#payloadNumber.

This also injects additional payloads:

• github.event.client_payload.commentId: Id of the comment that triggered this work

Example:

Command is "(hello)([\\w+ ]+)" Comment is hello boss (hello) matches the command. boss matches ([\\w+ ]+) group and hence becomes payload. So, worker is triggered with payload boss_payload_0 with value as boss

To activate

Note: BOSS_TOKEN should be added as secret. It is your PAT token with scopes admin:repo_hook, repo, workflow. This token creates worker workflow and dispatches events to trigger it. GITHUB_TOKEN can't be used as it's limited (read)

/boss

on: issue_comment

jobs:
  boss:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Checkout
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: RunBoss
      uses: yaananth/boss-action@v1
      env:
        BOSS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.BOSS_TOKEN }}"
        GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"

Custom slash command

on: issue_comment

jobs:
  boss:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Checkout
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: RunBoss
      uses: yaananth/boss-action@v1
      with:
        slash: "bossmate"
      env:
        BOSS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.BOSS_TOKEN }}"
        GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"