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Assign From JSON

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Assign From JSON

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Assign From JSON

Assign Variable from JSON Value

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

 
              
- name: Assign From JSON

              
  uses: fiddlermikey/[email protected]
Learn more about this action in fiddlermikey/assign-from-json

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Assign workflow properties from json

This action is designed to read a json file and set workflow variables using properties defined in the json file

Inputs

input-property

Required The identifier of the json property to be evaluated

Outputs

output-value

The value from the json property

Example usage

jobs:
  assign-from-json:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: A test job to read a value from json as a variable
    steps:
      - name: Read a json file 
        uses: fiddlermikey/[email protected]
        id: read
        with:
          input-file: 'package.json'
          input-property: 'author.name' # Exp: 'fiddlermikey'
      - name: Display property value for input-property in input-file
        id: write
        run: echo "The value for ${{ steps.read.outputs.output-property }} is ${{ steps.read.outputs.output-value }}"