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Given

- uses: jenseng/dynamic-uses@v1
  with:
    uses: actions/setup-node@${{ steps.branch-name.outputs.current_branch }}
    with: '{ "node-version": 18 }'
  env:
    environment_variable: test

I don't believe env would be passed down into the dynamically created uses, this would be pretty integral to have as a feature

Getting this error on the latest step
0s Error: Can't find 'action.yml', 'action.yaml' or 'Dockerfile' under '/runner/_work/aura-oneclick/aura-oneclick/.github/actions/setup_action'. Did you forget to run actions/checkout before running your local action?

Hi great work i really like the idea. The current problem i facing is to pass down a secret that contains a multiline string like a SSH Private Key for example.

Do you have any idea how to escape it properly so that i can be passed in the with block.

Hello @jenseng 👋,

Just wanted to say thank you for this work, I have a use case where my next composite action cannot process JSON. I came up with this workaround/hack and wanted to share. Given the way this works already I'm not sure you could incorporate the change without breaking existing users. I'd be happy to create a new action and attribute you if so, let me know if you have any preferences or feedback. Thank you again.

TL;DR - convert JSON to a YAML array for actions.

format_json() {
  echo $1 | jq -r '
    (
      to_entries |
      reduce .[] as $item (" ";
        . + "\n                \($item.key | ascii_upcase): '\''\($item.value)'\''"
    )
  )'
}

export WITH=$(format_json '${{ inputs.with }}')

mkdir -p ./.tmp-dynamic-uses &&

cat << 'DYNAMIC_USES_EOF' | envsubst > ./.tmp-dynamic-uses/action.yml
outputs:
  outputs:
    value: ${{ '$' }}{{ toJSON(steps.run.outputs) }}
runs:
  using: composite
  steps:
    - name: Run
      id: run
      uses: ${{ inputs.uses }}
      with: ${WITH}
DYNAMIC_USES_EOF

With uses keyword, secrets can be passed by either providing key-values to secrets or passing down all secrets using secrets: inherit . Would it be possible with this github action? That might help prevent a lot of things needed to do for passing something like token or a client_secret or something.

This is an awesome action. Can you please add an official license for use/share/modifications as github defaults to the most strict licensing policy if none provided?