🔄 env-json-exporter

GitHub Action to clone a repository, read a properties.env file, and expose it as usable JSON across jobs.

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🚀 What does this action do?

This custom action allows you to:

• Clone another repository.
• Read a properties.env file from a specific branch.
• Convert the contents of the properties.env file into JSON.
• Expose it as an output to be consumed using fromJSON(...) in other jobs.

Ideal for sharing configurations across repositories.

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📥 Inputs

Name	Required	Description
repo	✅	Repository to clone the properties.env from (e.g., org/repo).
ref	✅	Branch or tag of the repo (e.g., main, v1.0.0).
github_token	✅	Token with read access to the repository.
env_path	❌	Path to the properties.env file within the repo (default: properties.env).

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📤 Outputs

Name	Description
env-json	The contents of the properties.env file converted to JSON

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🧪 Example usage

jobs:
  get-env:
    uses: Varomegar/env-json-exporter@v1
    with:
      repo: your-org/config-repo
      ref: main
      github_token: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
      env_path: config/properties.env

  use-env:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: get-env
    steps:
      - name: Show variables
        run: |
          echo "EXAMPLE_VARS: ${{ fromJSON(needs.get-env.outputs.env-json).EXAMPLE_VARS }}"