Search Issues and Output as an Artifact

Searches Issues based on configured criteria and outputs the results as json per issue into an Artifact. Stacks with other actions that expect a set of Issues as an Artifact.

Building and testing

Install the dependencies

$ npm install

Build the typescript and package it for distribution

$ npm run build && npm run pack

Run the tests ✔️

$ npm run test

Usage

See action.yml For comprehensive list of options.

Basic:

name: "Search and output issues"on:
schedule:
- cron: "0 0 * * *"jobs:
search:
runs-on: ubuntu-lateststeps:
- uses: actions/IssueOutputAction@v1.0with:
repotoken: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}searchquery: 'event hubs is:open'repoOwnerAndName: 'Azure/azure-sdk-for-net'

Configure milestone filters (filter searched issues to only those associated to an open milestone with a due date in the future):

name: "Search and output issues"on:
schedule:
- cron: "0 0 * * *"jobs:
search:
runs-on: ubuntu-lateststeps:
- uses: actions/IssueOutputAction@v1.0with:
repotoken: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}searchquery: 'event hubs is:open'repoOwnerAndName: 'Azure/azure-sdk-for-net'searchByAssociatedMilestoneState: 'open'searchByAssociatedMilestoneDueDate: 'future'

Debugging

To see debug output from this action, you must set the secret ACTIONS_STEP_DEBUG to true in your repository.