FirebaseExtended / FirebaseExtended/action-hosting-deploy
Workflow inputs to dynamically deploy to channel
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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- 809
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Description
### The use case you're trying to solve
I'm building a a workflow where maintainer can select the channel they want the app is published into. For example, `live`, `staging` (long-lived preview), and `` (new preview)

```yaml
name: Deploy to Firebase Hosting
"on":
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
deployChannel:
description: "Channel which Firebase will deploy into"
default: ""
type: choice
options:
- live
- staging
-
... some actions
- name: Deploy to Firebase Hosting
uses: FirebaseExtended/action-hosting-deploy@v0
id: firebaseHost
with:
repoToken: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
firebaseServiceAccount: "${{ secrets.SOME_SECRETS }}"
channelId: ${{ inputs.deployChannel }} # value from the input above
projectId: someprojectid
```
If I understand from the docs, the deploy to a new preview channel, just leave the `channelId` property empty. I tried to achive that by passing an empty value.
However, on clicking **Run workflow**. GitHub immediately crashed, seems like it didn't support empty value?

Contributor guide
Research direction
No files or tests are named. Start by reproducing the workflow_dispatch form with an empty choice and trace how deployChannel reaches the Firebase Hosting deploy action; done means selecting the empty option no longer crashes Run workflow and deploys to a new preview channel.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- github-actions, typescript
- Domain
- ci-cd, cloud
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100