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GitHub Action
Repository Dispatch
v1.1.0
A GitHub action to create a repository dispatch event.
- name: Repository Dispatch
uses: peter-evans/repository-dispatch@v1
with:
token: ${{ secrets.REPO_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
event-type: my-event
Name | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
token |
(required) A repo scoped GitHub Personal Access Token. |
|
repository |
The full name of the repository to send the dispatch. | github.repository (current repository) |
event-type |
(required) A custom webhook event name. | |
client-payload |
JSON payload with extra information about the webhook event that your action or workflow may use. | {} |
Here is an example setting all of the input parameters.
- name: Repository Dispatch
uses: peter-evans/repository-dispatch@v1
with:
token: ${{ secrets.REPO_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
repository: username/my-repo
event-type: my-event
client-payload: '{"ref": "${{ github.ref }}", "sha": "${{ github.sha }}"}'
Here is an example on: repository_dispatch
workflow to receive the event.
Note that repository dispatch events will only trigger a workflow run if the workflow is committed to the default branch (usually master
).
name: Repository Dispatch
on:
repository_dispatch:
types: [my-event]
jobs:
myEvent:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
with:
ref: ${{ github.event.client_payload.ref }}
- run: echo ${{ github.event.client_payload.sha }}
The GitHub API allows a maximum of 10 top-level properties in the client-payload
JSON.
If you use more than that you will see an error message like the following.
No more than 10 properties are allowed; 14 were supplied.
For example, this payload will fail because it has more than 10 top-level properties.
client-payload: ${{ toJson(github) }}
To solve this you can simply wrap the payload in a single top-level property. The following payload will succeed.
client-payload: '{"github": ${{ toJson(github) }}}'