[Bug]: CLI arguments are not being replaced in testing templates about stepci

[dstrickland67]

That works.

Thanks,
David

[mishushakov]

Thanks for bug report, I'll look into it in a minute

[mishushakov]

Ok, so the bug has something to do with templating

[mishushakov]

So, this example works:

version: "1.1"
name: Basic Auth
env:
  auth: aGVsbG86d29ybGQ=
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: Basic Auth
        http:
          url: https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/hello/world
          method: GET
          headers:
            Authorization: Basic {{env.auth}}
          check:
            status: 200

This should work fine too:

headers:
  Authorization: Bearer {{secrets.token}}

[mishushakov]

I have investigated the issue
turns out, YAML does some quirks when {{ }} is not in a string

entering

{{test}}

produces:

{
  "{\"test\"=>nil}": null
}

Try yourself: https://www.json2yaml.com

To fix the issue you have to wrap it in quotes, like that:

version: "1.1"
name: Basic Auth
env:
  username: hello
  password: world
tests:
  example:
    steps:
      - name: Basic Auth
        http:
          url: https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/hello/world
          method: GET
          auth:
            basic:
              username: "{{ env.username }}"
              password: "{{ env.password }}"
          check:
            status: 200

As this is a bit counterintuitive, I'll change the templating syntax to use ${{ }} instead (like GitHub Actions)
I'll close the issue, as this is not a bug with Step CI per se

Thanks a lot for reporting though 🙏

[mishushakov]

Update: I have changed the templating syntax, you now have to use ${{ }} for templates