Issue and PR Checkbox Change Extractor for Github Actions

This action is to be used with the edited event to extract modifications to the check box state in an issue.

Outputs

outputs:
  formatted-string: 
    description: 'Formatted string version of the original line.'
  checkbox-changes:
    description: 'json object of the changes of the form {checked: <true | false>, text: "<the text next to the checkbox>"}'

Example usage

name: Comment when checkbox is toggled
on:
    issues:
        types: [edited]
  
jobs:
    hello:
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        steps:
            - name: generate the list of changed checkboxes
              id: checkbox
              uses: "atvenu/[email protected]"
              
            - name: list changes debugging
              run: |
                  echo "changed=${{ steps.checkbox.outputs.formatted-string }}"

            - name: create comment
              if: ${{ steps.checkbox.outputs.formatted-string}} != ""
              uses: peter-evans/create-or-update-comment@v3
              with:
                  issue-number: ${{ github.event.issue.number }}
                  body: |
                      ${{ steps.checkbox.outputs.formatted-string }}
                      checkbox updated by: ${{ github.event.sender.login }}

Development

docker compose build or docker build . -t node-dev

Helpful continuous test runner available with docker run -v .:/app -it node-dev npm continuous or something similar.

Building

To build the dist/index.js version for checkin and release run docker run -v .:/app -it node-dev npm run build