Typescript type definition of actions.getWorkflow does not allow specification of workflow_name.

[seriousme]

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Describe the bug
Documentation specifies that to get information about a workflow you can either specify workflow_id or workflow_name:

• https://developer.github.com/v3/actions/workflows/#get-a-workflow
• https://octokit.github.io/rest.js/v17#actions-get-workflow

However the Typescript type definition for Github.actions.getWorkflow only lets me specify workflow_id as a number and does not allow me to specify a string.

To Reproduce
See: https://octokit.github.io/types.ts/modules/_generated_endpoints_.html#actionsgetworkflowusageendpoint

Or try to create some Typescript code in VScode and try to feed actions.getWorflow anything else than a number. E.g.:

const { owner, repo } = github.context.repo;
const workflow_id="CI"
const workflow= await client.actions.getWorkflow({
 owner,
 repo,
 workflow_id,
 });

Expected behavior
Either a hybrid type that allows id or name or something like an additional getWorkflowbyName signature

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Additional context
I'm trying to make an action that cleans up the logs of other actions on the same repo and I can't get the action ID of the other actions from the UI, so I need a way to get from name to ID.

[Tallyb]

similar - no type is exported for getOctokit() response

[ldormoy]

Same with actions.listWorkflowRuns

Is there any known workaround?

I'm trying to create a typescript action to return the commit hash of the last successful workflow run, but I can't find a way to get the current workflow ID from the github context.

[thboop]

This should be fixed in actions/github 5.0.0, please let me know if its not working for you and we can reopen this issue.