Create an Action using Golang

Use this template to bootstrap the creation of a Golang action.:rocket:

This template includes compiliation support, tests, a validation workflow, publishing, and versioning guidance.

Create an action from this template

Click the Use this Template and provide the new repo details for your action

Code in Master

Install the dependencies

$ go mod download

Build the code

$ go build

Run the tests :heavy_check_mark:

$ go test -v ./...

  === RUN   TestRunMain
  --- PASS: TestRunMain (0.01s)
  PASS
  ok      github.com/actions-go/go-action    0.315s

...

Commit the pre-built binaries to ./dist/main_linux, ./dist/main_darwin and ./dist/main_windows.exe for respectively linux, mac OS and windows actions.

Change action.yml

The action.yml contains defines the inputs and output for your action.

Update the action.yml with your name, description, inputs and outputs for your action.

See the documentation

Publish to a distribution branch

Actions are run from GitHub repos. We will create a releases branch and only checkin production modules (core in this case).

$ git checkout -b releases/v1
$ git commit -a -m "prod dependencies"

$ git commit -a -m "prod dependencies"
$ git push origin releases/v1

Your action is now published! :rocket:

See the versioning documentation

Usage:

After testing you can create a v1 tag to reference the stable and tested action

uses: actions-go/go-action@master
with:
  milliseconds: 1000