Question

You maintain a JavaScript action. In action.yml you declared an input named 'api-token'. Inside your action's index.js you retrieve the value with core.getInput('apiToken'), but at runtime the value always comes back as an empty string even though callers pass a valid 'api-token' value. What is the most likely cause and fix?

Accepted Answer

core.getInput() matches the exact input name defined in action.yml (case-insensitively, with spaces as underscores), so you must call core.getInput('api-token') to read the declared input.

Answer

The toolkit converts input names to camelCase automatically, so you must call core.getInput('apiToken') exactly as written — the bug is elsewhere in the caller's workflow.

Answer

Inputs with hyphens cannot be read by the toolkit; you must rename the input in action.yml to 'apiToken' so it becomes a valid environment variable.

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You must read the value from process.env.API_TOKEN directly because core.getInput() only works for inputs declared with the 'required: true' field.