Validate version GitHub action

checks if version tag exists

Usage

1. Store the version you need to validate in a file (eg. .version)
2. Trigger validate-version-action and pass all required inputs
3. Read out values from the outputs

Inputs

• version_filename (default: '.version') - Path to the file with application version
• github_token - Pass the secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN variable
• fail_on_error (default: 'false') - Fail the pipeline on version validation error

Outputs

• planned_version - Version from version file
• version_file_exists - False if version file doesn't exist
• tag_hash - Commit hash if version tag exists
• can_create - True if version tag can be created
• tag_exists - True if version tag already exists
• branch_name - Working branch name

Example

echo"1.0.0">"${REPO_ROOT}/.version"

---
name: Releaseon:
push:
branches:
- "*"jobs:
validate_new_version:
name: Validate new versionruns-on: ubuntu-latestoutputs:
planned_version: ${{ steps.validate_new_version.outputs.planned_version }}version_file_exists: ${{ steps.validate_new_version.outputs.version_file_exists }}tag_hash: ${{ steps.validate_new_version.outputs.tag_hash }}can_create: ${{ steps.validate_new_version.outputs.can_create }}tag_exists: ${{ steps.validate_new_version.outputs.tag_exists }}branch_name: ${{ steps.validate_new_version.outputs.branch_name }}steps:
- name: Check out codeuses: actions/checkout@v2with:
fetch-depth: 0
- name: Validate new versionid: validate_new_versionuses: reinvented-stuff/validate-version-action@1.1.4with:
version_filename: ".version"github_token: "${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}"fail_on_error: true
...