Can I reference input events in the "post-if" condition in GitHub Action? #45421

PaulRBerg · 2023-01-26T11:28:08Z

PaulRBerg
Jan 26, 2023

Question

I have a GitHub Action that can be triggered via the GitHub UI (with workflow_dispatch), which has a boolean flag as one of the inputs.

What I want to do is this - set a condition in post-if that is evaluated to true only if the user-provided flag is set to true.

I tried to write it like this, but it didn't work:

post-if: "${{ github.event.inputs.cache }}"

I got the following error in CI:

Unrecognized named-value: 'github'. Located at position 1 within expression: github.event.inputs.cache

Is this doable? Or can event inputs simply not be used in post-if?

Answered by PaulRBerg

Yup, looks like this is doable.

I just had to delete the braces {{ }}:

post-if: "github.event.inputs.cache"

PaulRBerg · 2023-01-26T11:31:37Z

Yup, looks like this is doable.

I just had to delete the braces {{ }}:

post-if: "github.event.inputs.cache"

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