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denys-parloa opened this issue Jun 30, 2023 · 2 comments
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Error: Unhandled error: SyntaxError: Unexpected token '{' #401

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denys-parloa opened this issue Jun 30, 2023 · 2 comments

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@denys-parloa
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Hello!

I use this workflow element (To Reproduce section) to display the terraform plan, the variable ${{ steps.show-plan.outputs.stdout }} contains a string with special characters plus json elements.

How to avoid this issue? Probably I need to encode the string somehow ..

Tried including result-encoding: string but same result.
By the way, about a month ago this workflow worked fine.

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SyntaxError: Unexpected token '{'
    at new AsyncFunction (<anonymous>)
    at callAsyncFunction (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v6/dist/index.js:15143:16)
    at main (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v6/dist/index.js:15236:26)
    at /home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v6/dist/index.js:15217:1
    at /home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v6/dist/index.js:15268:3
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v6/dist/index.js:15[271](https://github.com/parloa/parloa-infra/actions/runs/5422135137/jobs/9858405881#step:12:272):12)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1105:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1159:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
Error: Unhandled error: SyntaxError: Unexpected token '{'
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To Reproduce

   - name: Update Pull Request
      uses: actions/github-script@v6
      with:
        github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        result-encoding: string
        script: |
          const output = `
          <details><summary>Show Plan</summary>
          \`\`\`\n
          ${{ steps.show-workspace.outputs.stdout }}
          ${{ steps.show-var-file.outputs.stdout }}
          ${{ steps.show-plan.outputs.stdout }}
          \`\`\`
          </details>
          `;
          
          github.rest.issues.createComment({
            issue_number: context.issue.number,
            owner: context.repo.owner,
            repo: context.repo.repo,
            body: output
          })

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@joshmgross
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The values you're injecting into that template string are likely invalid Javascript and aren't being escaped correctly.

I'd recommend setting those context values as environment variables and referencing them via process.env and the regular ${} template literal string interpolation.

   - name: Update Pull Request
      uses: actions/github-script@v6
      env:
        SHOW_WORKSPACE_OUTPUT: ${{ steps.show-workspace.outputs.stdout }}
        SHOW_VAR_FILE_OUTPUT: ${{ steps.show-var-file.outputs.stdout }}
        SHOW_PLAN_OUTPUT: ${{ steps.show-plan.outputs.stdout }}
      with:
        github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        result-encoding: string
        script: |
          const output = `
          <details><summary>Show Plan</summary>
          \`\`\`\n
          ${process.env.SHOW_WORKSPACE_OUTPUT}
          ${process.env.SHOW_VAR_FILE_OUTPUT}
          ${process.env.SHOW_PLAN_OUTPUT}
          \`\`\`
          </details>
          `;
          
          github.rest.issues.createComment({
            issue_number: context.issue.number,
            owner: context.repo.owner,
            repo: context.repo.repo,
            body: output
          })

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thank you!
it works.

@sylus sylus mentioned this issue Aug 6, 2024
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