github context not available in environnment

[wichert]

Describe the bug

I want to use a workflow for deployment to different environments. This workflow takes the environment as input using workflow dispatch:

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      env:
        description: Environment to deploy to
        required: true
        default: dev

jobs:
  deploy:
    name: Update active theme
    environment: ${{ github.event.inputs.env }}

This fails with an error:

The workflow is not valid. .github/workflows/deploy.yaml (Line: 21, Col: 18): Unrecognized named-value: 'github'. Located at position 1 within expression: github.event.inputs.env

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a workflow with a workflow-dispatch trigger
2. Add a job with an environment reference a dispatch input, for example environment: ${{ github.event.inputs.env }}
3. Trigger the workflow

Expected behavior I would expect it to be possible to use event input to set the job environment.

Runner Version and Platform

GitHub Enterprise 3.1.7

What's not working?

The github context is not available when evaluation the expression for environment in a job.

[wichert]

There is an unexpected workaround: the github context is available in the jobs.environment.name field.

jobs:
  deploy:
    name: Update active theme
    environment: 
      name: ${{ github.event.inputs.env }}

[wichert]

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