Add input to pass release body

Fixes #5

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # CHANGELOG
 
+## v2.3.0
+
+- Add input parameter release_text which can be used instead of the parsed change log (Addresses [#5](https://github.com/Roang-zero1/github-create-release-action/issues/5))
+
 ## v2.2.0
 
 - Add output parameter for parsed change log content (Fixes [#6](https://github.com/Roang-zero1/github-create-release-action/issues/6))

README.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Create GitHub release
-        uses: Roang-zero1/github-create-release-action@v2.2.0
+        uses: Roang-zero1/github-create-release-action@v2.3.0
         with:
           version_regex: ^v[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+
         env:
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Regular expressions containing `\` need them to be escaped with `\\`.
 
 ```yaml
 - name: Create GitHub release
-  uses: Roang-zero1/github-create-release-action@v2.2.0
+  uses: Roang-zero1/github-create-release-action@v2.3.0
   with:
     version_regex: ^v[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+
     prerelease_regex: "^v2\\.[[:digit:]]+\\.[[:digit:]]+"
@@ -70,13 +70,33 @@ jobs:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
       - name: Upload release notes
         if: steps.tag_and_prepare_release.outputs.tag
-        uses: Roang-zero1/github-create-release-action@v2.2.0
+        uses: Roang-zero1/github-create-release-action@v2.3.0
         with:
           created_tag: ${{ steps.tag_and_prepare_release.outputs.tag }}
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 ```
 
+### Using the tag message as release body
+
+If you have tag messages that you want to use as a release body you can pass them from the workflow with the `release_text` parameter.
+
+```yaml
+- uses: actions/checkout@v3
+- name: "Refresh tags"
+  id: tag
+  run: git fetch --tags --force # Is currently required for v3 due to https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/290
+- uses: ericcornelissen/git-tag-annotation-action@v2
+  id: tag-data
+- name: Create GitHub release
+  uses: Roang-zero1/github-create-release-action@v2.3.0
+  with:
+    version_regex: ^v[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+
+    release_text: ${{ steps.tag-data.outputs.git-tag-annotation }}
+  env:
+    GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+```
+
 ### Changelog parsing
 
 This action makes it possible to extract the release description from a Markdown changelog.

action.yml

@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ inputs:
     description: "Heading level at which the tag headings exist."
     default: "h2"
     required: false
+  release_text:
+    description: "Text body that will be added to the release. This will disable change log parsing"
+    default: ""
+    required: false
 outputs:
   id:
     description: "The ID of the created Release"

entrypoint.sh

@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ fi
 if [ -z "$CHANGELOG_HEADING" ]; then :; else
   INPUT_CHANGELOG_HEADING=$CHANGELOG_HEADING
 fi
+if [ -z "$INPUT_RELEASE_TEXT " ]; then
+  PARSE_CHANGELOG=true
+else
+  PARSE_CHANGELOG=false
+  RELEASE_BODY=$INPUT_RELEASE_TEXT
+fi
 
 set -euo pipefail
 
@@ -33,17 +39,21 @@ set_tag() {
 create_release_data() {
   RELEASE_DATA="{}"
   RELEASE_DATA=$(echo "${RELEASE_DATA}" | jq --arg tag "$TAG" '.tag_name = $tag')
-  if [ -e "$INPUT_CHANGELOG_FILE" ]; then
-    RELEASE_BODY=$(submark -O --"$INPUT_CHANGELOG_HEADING" "$TAG" "$INPUT_CHANGELOG_FILE")
-    if [ -n "${RELEASE_BODY}" ]; then
-      echo "::notice::Changelog entry found, adding to release"
-      echo "::set-output name=changelog::${RELEASE_BODY}"
-      RELEASE_DATA=$(echo "${RELEASE_DATA}" | jq --arg body "${RELEASE_BODY}" '.body = $body')
+  if $PARSE_CHANGELOG; then
+    if [ -e "$INPUT_CHANGELOG_FILE" ]; then
+      RELEASE_BODY=$(submark -O --"$INPUT_CHANGELOG_HEADING" "$TAG" "$INPUT_CHANGELOG_FILE")
+      if [ -n "${RELEASE_BODY}" ]; then
+        echo "::notice::Changelog entry found, adding to release"
+        echo "::set-output name=changelog::${RELEASE_BODY}"
+        RELEASE_DATA=$(echo "${RELEASE_DATA}" | jq --arg body "${RELEASE_BODY}" '.body = $body')
+      else
+        echo "::warning::Changelog entry not found!"
+      fi
     else
-      echo "::warning::Changelog entry not found!"
+      echo "::warning::Changelog file not found! ($INPUT_CHANGELOG_FILE)"
     fi
   else
-    echo "::warning::Changelog file not found! ($INPUT_CHANGELOG_FILE)"
+    RELEASE_DATA=$(echo "${RELEASE_DATA}" | jq --arg body "${RELEASE_BODY}" '.body = $body')
   fi
   RELEASE_DATA=$(echo "${RELEASE_DATA}" | jq --argjson value "${INPUT_CREATE_DRAFT}" '.draft = $value')
   local PRERELEASE_VALUE="false"