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Unrecognized Github Actions Secret Context

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github-actions, typescript, vscode
Domain
ci-cd, devtools

Research direction

Start by reproducing the warning with the provided jobs YAML, an environment named TWITCH-DOWNLOADER, and the two environment secrets referenced in the workflow. Trace how the GitHub Actions Extension validates secrets and environment context; done means the environment secrets are recognized without a missing-or-undefined warning.

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Description

bug

Describe the bug

  • I have a GitHub Actions workflow, VSCode recommended me the Extension.
  • And i use the Environment Feature for GitHub Action Secrets.
  • This is not recognized by the Extension,
    • even that the Environment Secrets works when i let the Action run.
    • Even more frustrating:
      • there seems to be no option to ignore or comment out that warning that the secret isn't valid
      • we need an option to ignore that if the Extension fails to read the environment context

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. The beginning of the Jobs YAML:

jobs:
test:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
environment: TWITCH-DOWNLOADER
...

  1. The Step that Uses the Secrets:
  • name: Schreibe Secrets in .env-Datei
    run: |
    echo "TWITCH_CLIENT_ID=${{ secrets.TWITCH_CLIENT_ID }}" >> .env
    echo "TWITCH_CLIENT_SECRET=${{ secrets.TWITCH_CLIENT_SECRET }}" >> .env

The Repo itself private, but i guess the error is easy to reproducible with

  • create a repo
  • creating a environment with that name (in https://github.com/(user)/(repo)/settings/secrets/actions)
  • creating 2 Secrets named like that in that environment
  • creating a github action yaml file with just that step above
  • Save
  • The Yaml loaded into VSCode with the GitHub Actions Extension running
    X the Secrets will be recognized as missing or not defined X

Expected behavior
To recognize the Environment and the Secrets in there

Dominant language
TypeScript
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