Act: Support dotenv

[muuvmuuv]

I'm storing all my secrets passed to GitHub in a dotenv and it would be sooo helpful if I could do act -f .env pull_request.

[cplee]

Closing to keep discussion going on #123

@muuvmuuv - can you review the suggestion there and see if that would help or if .env is the better way to go

[cplee]

implemented in #133

[muuvmuuv]

Oh, that was fast! Sorry for the delay and thank you! :)

[muuvmuuv]

Doesn't seem to work.

The .env.build is in the root.

❯ act -b -r -v --env-file .env.build fork
DEBU[0000] Loading environment from /Users/marvinheilemann/Development/Portfolio/.env.build
DEBU[0000] Loading workflows from '/Users/marvinheilemann/Development/Portfolio/.github/workflows'
DEBU[0000] Reading workflow '/Users/marvinheilemann/Development/Portfolio/.github/workflows/build.yml'
DEBU[0000] Reading workflow '/Users/marvinheilemann/Development/Portfolio/.github/workflows/fork.yml'
DEBU[0000] Reading workflow '/Users/marvinheilemann/Development/Portfolio/.github/workflows/lint.yml'
DEBU[0000] Reading workflow '/Users/marvinheilemann/Development/Portfolio/.github/workflows/notify.yml'
DEBU[0000] Reading workflow '/Users/marvinheilemann/Development/Portfolio/.github/workflows/stale.yml'
DEBU[0000] Planning event: fork
DEBU[0000] Loading slug from git directory '/Users/marvinheilemann/Development/Portfolio/.git'
DEBU[0000] Found revision: 078042c0e1c7955e49f19816f18a0a0c939bac50
DEBU[0000] Loading revision from git directory '/Users/marvinheilemann/Development/Portfolio/.git'
DEBU[0000] Found revision: 078042c0e1c7955e49f19816f18a0a0c939bac50
DEBU[0000] HEAD points to '078042c0e1c7955e49f19816f18a0a0c939bac50'
DEBU[0000] HEAD matches refs/heads/development
DEBU[0000] using github ref: refs/heads/development
[Fork created/Notify by email] 🚀  Start image=node:12.6-buster-slim
[Fork created/Notify by email]   🐳  docker pull node:12.6-buster-slim
DEBU[0000] Image exists? true
[Fork created/Notify by email]   🐳  docker create image=node:12.6-buster-slim entrypoint=["/usr/bin/tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[]
[Fork created/Notify by email]   🐳  docker run image=node:12.6-buster-slim entrypoint=["/usr/bin/tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[]
[Fork created/Notify by email] Starting container: ed74bfe31369405cd43a4ae9556f2d4bb89b46dae4fcb1e303091687208c53ea
[Fork created/Notify by email] Started container: ed74bfe31369405cd43a4ae9556f2d4bb89b46dae4fcb1e303091687208c53ea
DEBU[0000] Writing entry to tarball workflow/event.json len:2
DEBU[0000] Writing entry to tarball home/.act len:0
[Fork created/Notify by email] Extracting content to '/github/'
DEBU[0000] Loading slug from git directory '/Users/marvinheilemann/Development/Portfolio/.git'
DEBU[0000] Found revision: 078042c0e1c7955e49f19816f18a0a0c939bac50
DEBU[0000] Loading revision from git directory '/Users/marvinheilemann/Development/Portfolio/.git'
DEBU[0000] Found revision: 078042c0e1c7955e49f19816f18a0a0c939bac50
DEBU[0000] HEAD points to '078042c0e1c7955e49f19816f18a0a0c939bac50'
DEBU[0000] HEAD matches refs/heads/development
DEBU[0000] using github ref: refs/heads/development
[Fork created/Notify by email] ⭐  Run echo '${{secrets.MAIL_USERNAME}}'
DEBU[0000] Loading slug from git directory '/Users/marvinheilemann/Development/Portfolio/.git'
DEBU[0000] Found revision: 078042c0e1c7955e49f19816f18a0a0c939bac50
DEBU[0000] Loading revision from git directory '/Users/marvinheilemann/Development/Portfolio/.git'
DEBU[0000] Found revision: 078042c0e1c7955e49f19816f18a0a0c939bac50
DEBU[0000] HEAD points to '078042c0e1c7955e49f19816f18a0a0c939bac50'
DEBU[0000] HEAD matches refs/heads/development
DEBU[0000] using github ref: refs/heads/development
DEBU[0000] Wrote command 'echo 'undefined'' to 'workflow/0'
DEBU[0000] Writing entry to tarball workflow/0 len:32
[Fork created/Notify by email] Extracting content to '/github/'
[Fork created/Notify by email] Exec command '[bash --noprofile --norc -eo pipefail /github/workflow/0]'
| undefined
[Fork created/Notify by email]   ✅  Success - echo '${{secrets.MAIL_USERNAME}}'

name: Fork created

on:
  fork:

jobs:
  notify_email:
    name: Notify by email
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - run: echo '${{secrets.MAIL_USERNAME}}'

[cplee]

You still need to define secrets via act -s MAIL_USERNAME

If you omit the value then act will look for an env variable that can be provided in the .env file

[muuvmuuv]

Ah, you should note that in the README, but why is that needed? Wouldn't it be cleaner if all the stuff from the dotenv is loaded as a secret?

[cplee]

Good point @muuvmuuv - so in that case, would you like _all_ environment variables to become available as secrets?

[muuvmuuv]

Yes, for me the GitHub secrets page is nothing else than a local .env.

[sunt05]

You still need to define secrets via act -s MAIL_USERNAME

If you omit the value then act will look for an env variable that can be provided in the .env file

This is better documented; it took me quite a while to figure out this env file could work! 😅