Smart Comment Actions

A GitHub action to create, update, append, prepend, delete or find a comment on pull request or issue.

Inputs

Create Comment

NAME	DESCRIPTION	REQUIRED	DEFAULT
token	A GitHub token.	false	${{ github.token }}
repository	Owner and repository name. e.g. sandeshjangam/comment-actions	false	${{ github.repository }}
type	create	true	N/A
body	Comment body. Required with create type.	true	N/A
number	Number of the pull request or issue. Required with create and find type.	true	N/A
reactions	Add comma separated list of reactions to react on the comment. +1, -1, laugh, hooray, confused, heart, rocket, eyes	false	N/A

Update Comment

NAME	DESCRIPTION	REQUIRED	DEFAULT
token	A GitHub token.	false	${{ github.token }}
repository	Owner and repository name. e.g. sandeshjangam/comment-actions	false	${{ github.repository }}
type	update, append or prepend	true	N/A
body	Comment body. Required with update, append or prepend	true	N/A
comment_id	Comment id. Required with update, append or prepend	true	N/A
reactions	Add comma separated list of reactions to react on the comment. +1, -1, laugh, hooray, confused, heart, rocket, eyes	false	N/A

Delete Comment

NAME	DESCRIPTION	REQUIRED	DEFAULT
token	A GitHub token.	false	${{ github.token }}
repository	Owner and repository name. e.g. sandeshjangam/comment-actions	false	${{ github.repository }}
type	delete	true	N/A
comment_id	Comment id. Required delete type.	true	N/A

Find Comment

NAME	DESCRIPTION	REQUIRED	DEFAULT
token	A GitHub token.	false	${{ github.token }}
repository	Owner and repository name. e.g. sandeshjangam/comment-actions	false	${{ github.repository }}
type	find	true	N/A
number	Number of the pull request or issue. Required with find type.	true	N/A
search_term	Search in body. Can use with conjunction of author arg.	true	N/A
author	GitHub user name of the comment author.	false	N/A
direction	older - To find an older comment. newer - To find a newer comment.'	false	older

Note - To find a comment you can use either search_term or author and search_term both.

Outputs

• comment_id: Comment ID. It will return comment id to all types. Empty for find if not found.
• comment_body: Comment body. Empty string for delete & find if not found.

Notes

• number - Use ${{ github.event.issue.number }} or ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }} to get a pull request or issue number.

Simple Examples

Create Comment

name: Create a comment
on:
  pull_request:
    types: [opened,synchronize]

jobs:
  build:
    name: Smart Comment Actions
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      
      - name: Create a comment
        uses: sandeshjangam/comment-actions@v1
        with:
          type: "create"
          body: "Test comment on PR"
          number: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
          reactions: +1, hooray, heart, rocket

Update Comment (It will replace a comment)

      - name: Update a comment
        uses: sandeshjangam/comment-actions@v1
        id: update_comment
        with:
          type: "update"
          body: "Edit: The test comment is modified"
          comment_id: 856978218
          reactions: hooray, rocket

Delete Comment

      - name: Delete a comment.
        uses: sandeshjangam/comment-actions@v1
        with:
          type: "delete"
          comment_id: 856978218

Complex Examples

Create, Update and Append Comment

name: Create, Update and Append Comment
on:
  pull_request:
    types: [opened,synchronize]

jobs:
  build:
    name: Smart Comment Actions
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      
      - name: Create a comment
        uses: sandeshjangam/comment-actions@v1
        id: new_comment
        with:
          type: "create"
          body: "Test comment on PR"
          number: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}

      - name: Update a comment
        uses: sandeshjangam/comment-actions@v1
        id: update_comment
        with:
          type: "update"
          body: "Edit: The test comment is modified"
          comment_id: ${{ steps.new_comment.outputs.comment_id }}

      - name: Append to comment 
        uses: sandeshjangam/comment-actions@v1
        with:
          type: "append"
          body: "Append: Add new body at the end of the comment."
          comment_id: ${{ steps.new_comment.outputs.comment_id }}

Delete Comment

name: Create and Delete Comment
on:
  pull_request:
    types: [opened,synchronize]

jobs:
  build:
    name: Smart Comment Actions
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      
      - name: Create a comment 
        uses: sandeshjangam/comment-actions@v1
        id: create_delete_comment
        with:
          type: "create"
          body: "To check the delete action"
          number: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}

      - name: Find a comment using a search term.
        uses: sandeshjangam/comment-actions@v1
        id: find_comment
        with:
          type: "find"
          search_term: "To check the delete action"
          number: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}

      - name: Delete a comment.
        uses: sandeshjangam/comment-actions@v1
        id: delete_comment
        if: ${{ steps.find_comment.outputs.comment_id != '' }}
        with:
          type: "delete"
          comment_id: ${{ steps.find_comment.outputs.comment_id }}

License

MIT