Gitea Actions - Support for configuration variables in workflows

[kerem0comert]

Feature Description

Hello,

In my Gitea Actions configuration - suppose that I would like to be able to configure the behavior of certain steps.
For example, consider the following step:

    - name: Run pytest
      run: |
        if [ -d tests/ ]; then
          if [ -f tests/gitea_actions.yaml ]; then
            echo "Found gitea_actions.yaml, checking if tests should be run..."
            
            run_tests=$(python -c "import yaml; print(yaml.safe_load(open('tests/gitea_actions.yaml'))['run_tests'])")
            echo "run_tests is set to $run_tests"
            if [ "$run_tests" = "True" ]; then
              echo "run_tests is set to true, running tests..."
              python -m pytest tests/
            else
              echo "run_tests is not set to true, skipping tests."
            fi
          else
            echo "gitea_actions.yaml does not exist, skipping tests."
          fi
        else
          echo "Test directory does not exist, skipping tests."
        fi

Currently I can configure this behavior by a yaml file that I keep in the repository. However, is it possible to have it as an external variable that is configurable per repository, in the Gitea frontend? And it can be accessed in a way like gitea.actor. I assume this is similar to what GitHub Actions already supports here.

Please let me know if such a thing already exists, or if not what is the best practice for this requirement (should I continue having this external yaml file for my configs?).

Thanks!

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[lunny]

This has been supported. ref https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/act-runner?_highlight=variable#configuration-variable

[kerem0comert]

Thanks!
The docs say:

Variable names can only contain alphanumeric characters ([a-z], [A-Z], [0-9]) or underscores (_). Spaces are not allowed.

however, when I set the name as run_tests I see that the UI converts it to uppercase. Do both work? Is this intended? Maybe a clarification of this in the docs would be nice.

[kerem0comert]

I have the name set up in uppercase and set to true (as I assume lowercase may create confusion as the UI seems to convert it) and I have:

    - name: Run pytest
      run: |
        if [ -d tests/ ]; then
          echo "Test directory exists..."
          
          echo "RUN_TESTS variable is set to {{ vars.RUN_TESTS }}"
          
          if [ "{{ vars.RUN_TESTS }}" = "true" ]; then
            echo "RUN_TESTS is set to true, running tests..."
            python -m pytest tests/
          else
            echo "RUN_TESTS is not set to true, skipping tests."
          fi
        else
          echo "Test directory does not exist, skipping tests."
        fi

however, I get as output:

Test directory exists...
RUN_TESTS variable is set to {{ vars.RUN_TESTS }}
RUN_TESTS is not set to true, skipping tests.

So it seems the variable does not get read. What am I doing wrong?

[lunny]

Sorry, the documentaion is wrong. It should be ${{ vars.RUN_TESTS }}. I will send a PR to correct it.

[lunny]

This will be fixed by #30394