This action will verify if a pull request has at least one label from a set of valid labels, as well as no label from a set of invalid labels. The sets of valid and invalid labels are defined by the user and passed as input arguments.
To prevent the merging of an invalid pull request, this action uses either the standard pull request workflow or the status of the GitHub Action check.
By default, this action uses the standard pull request workflow. In this mode, if the pull request does not contain a label from the set of valid labels, or contains a label from the set of invalid labels, then the action will create a pull request review using the event REQUEST_CHANGES; independent reviews are generated for both cases. Otherwise, the action will instead create a pull request review using the event APPROVE. In both of these cases the exit code will be 0, and the GitHub Action check will always succeed.
The REQUEST_CHANGES review will prevent the merging of the pull request (if the option Require pull request reviews before merging is enabled in the repository) until the APPROVE review is generated. After that, the pull request can be merged.
When this action runs, it will look for the previous review done by itself, and it will not repeat the same request again. However, if the option Dismiss stale pull request approvals when new commits are pushed is enabled in the repository, previous review will be automatically dismissed and therefore this check will fail, and a new request will always be generated.
Note: if you want to use the Require pull request reviews before merging to require reviews approval before merging pull requests, then you need to increase the number of Required approving reviewers by one, as this check will do an approval when a valid label is present. So, for example, if you want at least one reviewer approval, then set this value to 2.
On the other hand, the creations of reviews can be disabled by setting the input disable-reviews to true. In this mode, if the pull request does not contain a label from the set of valid labels, or contains a label from the set of invalid labels, then the action will exit with an error code (1), and the GitHub Action check will fail. Otherwise, the action will instead exit with the code 0, and the GitHub Action check will succeed. In both cases, the action won't create any pull request review.
The failing of the GitHub Action check will prevent the merging of the pull request (if the option Require status checks to pass before merging is enabled in the repository) until the check succeeds. After that, the pull request can be merged.
When a pull request is opened from a forked repository, Github actions run with read-only permissions, and so the action won't be able to create a pull request review.
Fortunately, Github recently added a new trigger event pull_request_target which behaves in an almost identical way to the pull_request event, but the action runs in the base of the pull request and will therefore have write permission. However, as the action runs in the base of the pull request, the pull request number is not available in the environmental variables, and must therefore be passed as an input argument. Please refer to the example usage section for more details.
Required The GitHub token.
Required A list of valid labels. It must be a quoted string, with label separated by commas. For example: 'bug, enhancement'
Optional A list of invalid labels. It must be a quoted string, with label separated by commas. For example: 'help wanted, invalid'.
Depending on the trigger condition used, this input is:
- Required when the action is triggered using
pull_request_target. It is available in the github context as:${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}. Or, - Optional when the action is triggered using
pull_request. In this case this number is is automatically extracted from the environmental variables.
Optional Set to true to disable the creation of pull request reviews, and use the status of the check instead.
Normally, in your project you would want to allow PRs both from the same repository as well as forks. In that case, you must use the trigger condition pull_request_target, as described in this example:
In your workflow YAML file add these steps:
uses: jesusvasquez333/verify-pr-label-action@v1.4.0
with:
github-token: '${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}'
valid-labels: 'bug, enhancement'
invalid-labels: 'help wanted, invalid'
pull-request-number: '${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}'and trigger it with:
on:
pull_request_target:
types: [opened, labeled, unlabeled, synchronize]The above example should you preferred method. Nevertheless, the trigger condition pull_request is also supported, and you can use it instead of pull_request_target. This condition, however, works only for PRs from the same repository; its only advantage is that the pull-request-number input is not needed in this case and can be omitted. So, if you want to use that condition instead, follow this example:
In your workflow YAML file add this step:
uses: jesusvasquez333/verify-pr-label-action@v1.4.0
with:
github-token: '${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}'
valid-labels: 'bug, enhancement'
invalid-labels: 'help wanted, invalid'and trigger it with:
on:
pull_request:
types: [opened, labeled, unlabeled, synchronize]Please note that you must use only one trigger condition for your action, either pull_request_target or pull_request, but not both at the same time.