How to upload a file to an existing draft release?

[eregon]

I would like to use this action to replace https://github.com/actions/create-release and https://github.com/actions/upload-release-asset, as shown in this example: https://github.com/eregon/publish-release#readme And then publish the release with that action, so the latest release of a repository is always valid and has files from all platforms.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem possible to add an asset to an existing draft release with this action. Probably I would need to pass the upload_url or the release id so the action could do it, but there seems to be no such input.

I tried several things:

    steps:
    - name: Create Release
      uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
      id: create_release
      with:
        tag_name: testtag
        draft: true
        prerelease: false
        body: body

    - run: 'echo hello > foo.txt'
    - name: Upload Asset
      uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
      with:
        tag_name: testtag
        files: foo.txt

That creates both a draft release and a non-draft release, which is quite confusing. The output is https://github.com/eregon/setup-ruby-test/actions/runs/4136747251/jobs/7151030394.

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3

    - name: Create Release
      uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
      id: create_release
      with:
        tag_name: testtag3
        draft: true
        prerelease: false
        body: body3

    - run: 'echo hello > foo.txt'
    - name: Upload Asset
      uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
      with:
        tag_name: testtag3
        draft: true
        files: foo.txt

That creates two draft releases, which is not what is wanted. The output is https://github.com/eregon/setup-ruby-test/actions/runs/4136799053

Could you consider adding this feature?

How do people upload assets built on different platforms? Using https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact maybe? But that's quite verbose and basically uploads things twice (+ extra download), instead of uploading to the release directly.

[matyalatte]

Hi, I got the same problem while removing the deprecation warnings from my workflows. And my solution was using Github CLI.

You can uplaod files to the release like this.

- name: Upload Release Asset
  env:
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
  run: gh release upload testtag test_archive.zip

I'll put some documents for the details. Using GitHub CLI in workflows - GitHub Docs Manual | GitHub CLI gh release upload | GitHub CLI

[eregon]

Yes, I used the same workaround, to use gh in https://github.com/ruby/truffleruby-dev-builder/blob/master/.github/workflows/build.yml It needs some extra things like setting GH_TOKEN/GITHUB_TOKEN and GH_REPO, otherwise it only works with a checkout of the current repo. It feels less clean than using an action, but it works and hopefully keeps working without much changes needed.