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Value 'release' is not valid for `environment` in a job

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github-actions, typescript, vscode
Domain
ci-cd, devtools

Research direction

Start with workflow-parser/src/workflow-v1.0.json and languageservice/src/validate.ts at the linked definitions and validation code. Reproduce a workflow using environment: release and trace why it is rejected; done means arbitrary environment names such as release no longer produce a validation error in VS Code.

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Description

bug

I was following the PyPI doc to setup trusted publisher with GitHub Actions, but I encountered this error in VS Code with the extension.

I think this is a false positive becauseenvironment seems to be able to be an arbitrary string, as the GitHub doc describes.

I was able to trace the issue down to the language server's definition of the environment value, and also the code that validated it but failed. I didn't have time to dig in further, and hope this helps.

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