dispatch-phone-home github action

This action will call a workflow_dispatch event on a specified repository and will pass the parameters necessary for it to "phone home" and sets the commit status on the caller repository.

This is useful when you want to dispatch a workflow in a different organization, and want the status to be reported back to be used by the status checks.

This action is to be used in conjunction with casaroli/phone-home

The development and the source files are in casaroli/repo-dispatch. If you have any problems, please open an issue there.

Inputs

dispatch-token

The token that will be used to dispatch the call to the referenced repository. Default: ${{ github.token }}.

dispatch-repository

The repository in which to dispatch the workflow_dispatch event. Required.

dispatch-ref

The ref to dispatch to. This can be the branch name such as main. Required.

dispatch-workflow

The workflow to dispatch. This must be a valid workflow configured with workflow_dispatch event. Required.

status-context

The context name to be used for the reporting of the status of the dispatch. Can be any text. Required.

status-token

The token passed to the called workflow for it to use when reporting back the status. It must be a token that has permissions to write the status. It is recommended to use a secret. Default is ${{ github.token }}.

status-repository:

The repository to report status to. By default is the current repository: ${{ github.repository }}.

The commit sha to report the status to. By default is the current commit sha: ${{ github.sha }}.

inputs

a JSON string containing the inputs to pass to the dispatched workflow. Empty by default.

phone-home-input-name:

The name of the input to be used for sending the data for the dispatched workflow to report back the status. By default it is phone-home.

The dispatched workflow should declare this input and pass it to the phone-home action.

Example usage

Example of a caller workflow that dispatches an event to the dispatched workflow:

name: Caller example

on:
  push:

jobs:
  call:
    name: Dispatch another workflow
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
      - uses: casaroli/dispatch-phone-home@v1
        with:
          dispatch-repository: casaroli/my-other-repository
          dispatch-ref: main
          dispatch-workflow: dispatched.yml
          status-context: My other checks
          status-token: ${{ secrets.WRITE_COMMIT_STATUS_TOKEN }}
          inputs: |
            {
              "my-input": "some extra data"
            }

See the example for casaroli/phone-home for the corresponding dispatched workflow.

Dispatched workflow

name: Dispatched example

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      my-input:
        description: user data to pass
        type: string
        required: false
      phone-home:
        type: string
        required: false
    
jobs:
  dispatched:
    name: Dispatched job
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
      - uses: casaroli/phone-home@v1
        with:
          phone-home-input: ${{ inputs.phone-home }}

      - name: process something
        run: sleep 30