Upgrade Slack GHA

[MyrinNew]

If you like having your GitHub Actions workflows post messages to Slack, well, things just got a lot easier. Version 2 of slack-github-action has been released, and it makes your workflow file so much nicer because it supports YAML! Here is what it looks like.


BEFORE:






- name: Post to Slack
uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
env:
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
with:
channel-id: "C3P0ANDR2D2"
payload: |
{
"blocks": [
{
"type": "section",
"text": {
"type": "mrkdwn",
"text": "My message goes here"
}
}
]
}







AFTER:






- name: Post to Slack
uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v2
with:
method: chat.postMessage
token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
payload: |
channel: "C3P0ANDR2D2"
blocks:
- type: section
text:
type: mrkdwn
text: "My message goes here"







So much prettier and easier to read/maintain.


Note, you will have to shuffle some things around (like where the token is specified), and be explicit about the method you are using.


Here is an example of an update message






- name: Update Slack with success
if: ${{ success() }}
uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v2
with:
method: chat.update
token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
payload: |
channel: "C3P0ANDR2D2"
ts: ${{ steps.slack.outputs.ts }}
blocks:
- type: section
text:
type: mrkdwn
text: "My updated test"
fields:
- type: mrkdwn
text: "My updated field"







I used Cursor to help me do all of the conversion from JSON to YAML, so this wasn't too painful of a change.


Happy Coding!




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