github-issue-metadata-action

This action exists to inject and extract metadata hidden inside an Issue body contents.

set-metadata

An action that will allow you to set some metadata into an issue.

Parameters

• github_token: GitHub token used for access, defaults to ${{ github.token }}
• repository: Optional repository full name, i.e. <owner>/<repo> for the repositoryt hat hosts the issues, defaults to ${{ github.repository }}
• issue_number: The issue number that will be used to store the metadata
• metadata_marker: Optional metadata marker/key name for the metadata object, defaults to bootstrap.
• metadata_value: The actual string value to set for the value of the metadata
• github_api_url: Optional GitHub API URL to use for accessing the issue, defaults to the ${{ github.api_url}} from the actions runtime

get-metadata

An action that will fetch any existing metadata from an issue.

Parameters

• github_token: GitHub token used for access, defaults to ${{ github.token }}
• repository: Optional repository full name, i.e. <owner>/<repo> for the repositoryt hat hosts the issues, defaults to ${{ github.repository }}
• issue_number: The issue number that will be used to store the metadata
• metadata_marker: Optional metadata marker/key name for the metadata object, defaults to bootstrap.
• metadata_parse_json_payload: A boolean flag that will further parse the content for the marker metadata as JSON and then provide outputs for each key in the data under metadata_value_<key> in the outputs
• github_api_url: Optional GitHub API URL to use for accessing the issue, defaults to the ${{ github.api_url}} from the actions runtime

Outputs

• metadata_value: The string value of the metadata sorted in the marker
• metadata_value_<key>: The additional key based metadata values if the metadata_parse_json_payload is set to true.