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Lubu
Lubu

Reputation: 123

GitHub does not allow secrets to be passed down to reusable workflow

I am trying to pass secrets to reusable workflow as shown here: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/reusing-workflows#passing-inputs-and-secrets-to-a-reusable-workflow

But the pipeline fails, stating that:

The workflow is not valid. .github/workflows/test.workflow-test.yml (Line: 17, Col: 9): Unexpected value 'secrets'

My .github/actions/test/action.yml looks like that:

name: Reusable workflow example

on:
  workflow_call:
    inputs:
      username:
        required: true
        type: string
    secrets:
      token:
        required: true

jobs:
  example_job:
    name: show
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: show data
        runs: echo ${{ secrets.token }}

And I'm calling it accordingly:

name: Call a reusable workflow

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - "feature/workflow-test"

jobs:
  my-test-job:
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - uses: ./.github/actions/test
        with:
          username: John
        secrets:
          token: secret Token

What I am missing here? It is almost identical to the code samples within GitHub's documentation.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6700

Answers (2)

Ayoub Benaissa
Ayoub Benaissa

Reputation: 1

The issue is that you are calling the workflow within a step, while this is supported as a job.

What you should have is:

jobs:
  my-test-job:
    uses: ./.github/actions/test
      with:
        username: John
      secrets:
        token: secret Token

Upvotes: 0

frennky
frennky

Reputation: 14024

There are two issues that I can see with your example.

The path to reusable workflow needs to be .github/workflows. Currently subdirs are not supported.

Also, the way you call reusable workflow is not according to docs.

Here's an example that should work:

name: Call a reusable workflow

on:
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  reusable-job:
    uses: <owner>/<repo>/.github/workflows/<reusable workflow>@master
    with:
      username: john
    secrets:
      token: test

And following reusable workflow:

name: Reusable workflow

on:
  workflow_call:
    inputs:
      username:
        required: true
        type: string
    secrets:
      token:
        required: true

jobs:
  show:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:

      - name: Show data
        run: |
          echo ${{ inputs.username }}
          echo ${{ secrets.token}}

Upvotes: 3

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