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Appaji Chintimi
Appaji Chintimi

Reputation: 675

If condition in Github Actions for another Job

My use case is, to trigger docs build when there is a trigger word in Pull Request Comments. I am using pull-request-comment-trigger to know if a Trigger word is present in the code.

After knowing Action is triggered, I want to run some commands inside the repo. So, I have to use actions/checkout for that.

My doubt is, inside the run command, Only Shell Commands are valid, Right? I want to run another job if above condition satisfies.

My Current Yaml File

name: Testing GH Actions

on:
  pull_request:
    types: [opened]

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: khan/pull-request-comment-trigger@master
        id: check
        with:
          trigger: "AppajiC"
          reaction: rocket
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
      - run:
        # Generally Anything here runs if below condition satisfies.
        # I want to run another job here, which uses actions/checkout@v2 action
        if: steps.check.outputs.triggered == 'true'

How can I achieve this ?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 25140

Answers (1)

soltex
soltex

Reputation: 3551

You can use the condition for your checkout step and the following steps:

- name: Checkout
  uses: actions/checkout@v2
  if: steps.check.outputs.triggered == 'true'

- name: Following step1
  if: steps.check.outputs.triggered == 'true'

...

Alternatively, you can create a new job and use that if condition once:

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    outputs:
      deploy-status: ${{ steps.check.outputs.triggered }}
    steps:
      - uses: khan/pull-request-comment-trigger@master
        id: check
        with:
          trigger: 'AppajiC'
          reaction: rocket
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}

  # this job will only run if steps.check.outputs.triggered == 'true'
  # you just need to write the if once
  after-deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: [deploy]
    if: needs.deploy.outputs.deploy-status == 'true'
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        
      ...

Upvotes: 24

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