how does one send a message with a snippet?

[iamstarkov]

Description

I'd like to send a nice snippet of code in a message instead of markdown code block.

This is what I do now:

This is what I want:

Im not quite sure how to do it and will appreciate any guiding

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• [x] enhancement (feature request)
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• [ ] example code related
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• [x] I've read and understood the Contributing guidelines and have done my best effort to follow them.
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• [x] I've searched for any related issues and avoided creating a duplicate issue.

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[zimeg]

Hi @iamstarkov! 👋 Thanks for sharing the example! The second snippet is showing a file upload with a specific file type instead of block kit blocks or other formatting, which isn't yet possible, but it is good to know of some workaround for this right now.

Support for this is in progress (#333) and also tracked in #92, but let's keep this open since this seems like a useful case to have documented 📚 🙏

[zimeg]

This is now possible with the @2.0.0 release! Details on updating are included with that link, but a step like so might be helpful for sending snippets:

- name: Share a file to that channel
  uses: slackapi/[email protected]
  with:
    method: files.uploadV2
    token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
    payload: |
      channel: ${{ secrets.SLACK_CHANNEL_ID }}
      file: "./path/to/api.json"
      filename: "api.json"

I'm going to close this issue for now, but please feel free to comment with follow ups or open another whenever! 🙏