slackapi/slack-github-action v2.0.0-rc.1

Slack Send v2.0.0-rc.1

on GitHub

What's changed

Seasons greeting! 🎃 This pre-release tags some of the ongoing changes on the v2-development branch for testing and experiments with actual workflows.

The release includes numerous and significant breaking changes for all techniques, and for now we recommend reading the README.md to discover what's changed for the techniques you're using. A more detailed migration guide will soon follow! 📚

⚠️ An issue has been found related to loading ES modules when using this GitHub Action. A following release candidate plans to address this soon!

Previewing a few of these changes

As a glance into how the different techniques function, the following snippets might be useful. With all of these changes, please note the version used in the GitHub step:

  uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v2.0.0-rc.1

This is the same version that's required when experimenting with this pre-release!

Technique 1: Slack Workflow Builder

This technique uses a webhook trigger to start a Slack workflow in Workflow Builder:

- name: Send GitHub Action data to a Slack workflow
  uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v2.0.0-rc.1
  with:
    payload-delimiter: "_"
    webhook: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}
    webhook-type: webhook-trigger

Technique 2: Slack API method

This technique uses a provided token and one of the Slack API methods to send data:

- name: Post to a Slack channel
  uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v2.0.0-rc.1
  with:
    method: chat.postMessage
    token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
    payload: |
      channel: ${{ secrets.SLACK_CHANNEL_ID }}
      text: "howdy <@channel>!"

Technique 3: Slack incoming webhook

This technique posts a message to a channel using incoming webhooks:

- name: Post a message in a channel
  uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v2.0.0-rc.1
  with:
    webhook: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}
    webhook-type: incoming-webhook
    payload: |
      text: "*GitHub Action build result*: ${{ job.status }}\n${{ github.event.pull_request.html_url || github.event.head_commit.url }}"
      blocks:
        - type: "section"
          text:
            type: "mrkdwn"
            text: "GitHub Action build result: ${{ job.status }}\n${{ github.event.pull_request.html_url || github.event.head_commit.url }}"

Sharing feedback

As development reaches more stable commits, your feedback and findings in these tagged changes is so important! Please feel free to report an issue or leave a comment if something doesn't seem right. We're hoping this rollout won't be a spooky one! 👻