Multiple event-type values in the receiving job?

[pradeipp]

We have a dev repo from which we want to trigger jobs in e2e test repository. We have multiple environments and with the github actions plan we've come up with we have a separate step for each environment. Each step sends a repository_dispatch trigger. That will total in about 7 triggers per step/environment.

- name: Trigger e2e-test-ch-prod
  uses: peter-evans/repository-dispatch@v2
  with:
    token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
    repository: my-shop/e2e-tests
    event-type: test-us-prod
    client-payload: '{"ENV": "prod", "LOCALE": "US"}'

- name: Trigger e2e-test-uk-prod
  uses: peter-evans/repository-dispatch@v2
  with:
    token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
    repository: my-shop/e2e-tests
    event-type: test-uk-prod
    client-payload: '{"ENV": "prod", "LOCALE": "UK"}'

The receiving e2e test repository will have one workflow for simple e2e tests. In the 'on' section, in the 'types' field, can we use a list like

on:
  repository_dispatch:
    types: ['test-us-prod', 'test-us-staging', 'test-uk-prod', 'test-uk-staging']

will this work?

[peter-evans]

Hi @pradeipp

The types field is an array in GitHub's spec. So I believe it will work to specify multiple types, yes.

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/events-that-trigger-workflows#repository_dispatch

[aangelinsf]

I've got a receiving workflow that responds to two Repository Dispatch events, one coming from this action.