Build steps in CI/CD action are being skipped

[hannahromanko]

I am trying to run the CI/CD action and it is skipping the build process

The error is:
Error when evaluating 'if' for job 'Build'. .github/workflows/CICD.yaml (Line: 171, Col: 9): could not get operand for index access: could not get operand for index access: Error from function 'fromJson': empty input

The CI/CD.yaml is:
Build:
needs: [ Initialization ]
if: (!failure()) && (!cancelled()) && fromJson(needs.Initialization.outputs.buildOrderJson)[0].projectsCount > 0
strategy:
matrix:
include: ${{ fromJson(needs.Initialization.outputs.buildOrderJson)[0].buildDimensions }}
fail-fast: false
name: Build ${{ matrix.projectName }} (${{ matrix.buildMode }})
uses: ./.github/workflows/_BuildALGoProject.yaml
secrets: inherit
with:
shell: ${{ matrix.githubRunnerShell }}
runsOn: ${{ matrix.githubRunner }}
project: ${{ matrix.project }}
projectName: ${{ matrix.projectName }}
buildMode: ${{ matrix.buildMode }}
skippedProjectsJson: ${{ needs.Initialization.outputs.skippedProjects }}
projectDependenciesJson: ${{ needs.Initialization.outputs.projectDependenciesJson }}
baselineWorkflowRunId: ${{ needs.Initialization.outputs.baselineWorkflowRunId }}
baselineWorkflowSHA: ${{ needs.Initialization.outputs.baselineWorkflowSHA }}
secrets: 'licenseFileUrl,codeSignCertificateUrl,*codeSignCertificatePassword,keyVaultCertificateUrl,*keyVaultCertificatePassword,keyVaultClientId,gitHubPackagesContext,applicationInsightsConnectionString'
signArtifacts: true
useArtifactCache: true

Any idea what I might be missing or where to look ?

[aholstrup1]

@hannahromanko Is this the entire CICD.yaml in your repo? 🤔 Or can you give a description of how you got this error? The error suggests to me that either your CICD.yaml doesn't have an Initialization job or the Initialization job returns an empty value for buildOrderJson.

If you edited the CICD.yaml file, I would recommend reverting those changes.

[hannahromanko]

I have not changed the CICD.yaml file. It is the one created after running the "Update AL-Go System Files" action.

I compared a previous CICD action that ran successfully (on the left below) with the CICD action that is now failing, and the difference I see in the Initialization is below:

I'm not sure why the *** were added? Could that be the issue?

[aholstrup1]

Ahh yes that might be the issue. It looks like the curly brackets are being masked by GitHub.
Typically this is because you have a repository (or organizational) secret with line breaks.

Did you define any secrets on your repository?

If any of your secrets contain curly brackets and line breaks (typically because they're JSON structures) try removing the line breaks and update the secret. We've sometimes seen these issues because GitHub masks each line in the secret.

If that doesn't work, could you share the log file to your CICD? That might help us narrow down what's wrong 😊

[hannahromanko]

That worked! We had spaces in the secret. Thank you!