[SOLVED] GitHub action for issue_comment doesn't shown in checks for PR

GitHub action for issue_comment doesn't shown in checks for PR

I created a GitHub action on:issue_comment, I can see the flow running only in the action tab, but not in the PR, where I made the comment. I want to comment in a PR and trigger a check on that PR (not on master)

here is my workflow:

name: issue-comment-CI-test 

on: 
  issue_comment:    
    types: [created]    
jobs:   
  build:    

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest  

    steps:  
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1 
    - name: Run a one-line script   
      run: echo Hello, world!   
    - name: Run a multi-line script 
      run: echo ${{ github.event.comment.body }}

currently, I'm just printing the comment body, But I plan to check the body, and if it is equal to "run integration tests" then I'll run my integration tests (maven)

Solution

Basically you need to checkout to the PR origin. For that, first make a API request to the pr url and fetch all ref. Then do the checkout on the fetched repo and branch.

Step1

- name: Github API Request
    id: request
    uses: octokit/request-action@v2.0.0
    with:
      route: ${{ github.event.issue.pull_request.url }}
    env:
      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Step 2

- name: Checkout PR Branch
    uses: actions/checkout@v2
    with:
      token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      repository: ${{ fromJson(steps.request.outputs.data).head.repo.full_name }}
      ref: ${{ steps.pr_data.outputs.branch }}

You can follow the following example, specially the GitHub API Request part. I've also implemented it in one of our workflows, you can take reference from that as well.

https://github.com/adrianjost/workflow-trigger-comment-example/blob/master/.github/workflows/demo.yml https://github.com/TeamAmaze/AmazeFileManager/blob/master/.github/workflows/android-debug-artifact-ondemand.yml