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Error thrown in consuming workflows regarding JSON output values quotes

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github-actions, typescript, vscode
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start by reproducing the error with the reusable workflow and consuming workflow shown in the issue, using the reported extension version as a baseline. Trace the diagnostics produced for quoted JSON expressions and verify that valid GitHub Actions syntax no longer reports errors in the consuming workflow or maps them to the wrong line.

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Description

bug

Describe the bug

Quotes in a reusable workflow's JSON output value is triggering an error in consuming workflows.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Create a reusable workflow with input and outputs, one of the output being this JSON value:
    outputs:
      images:
        value: '{"gcp": "${{ contains(inputs.registries, ''gcp'') && jobs.setup.outputs.gcp_image || '''' }}", "ecr": "${{ contains(inputs.registries, ''ecr'') && jobs.setup.outputs.ecr_image || ''''  }}"}'
  1. Use the first workflow in another workflow:
  build:
    uses: acme/actions/.github/workflows/build.yaml@v1
  1. See the following errors in the 2nd workflow file, but at the line number from the 1st workflow file:
Unexpected symbol: 'gcp'''. Located at position 31 within expression: contains(inputs.registries, ''gcp'') && jobs.setup.outputs.gcp_image || '''' [Ln 72, Col 26]
Unexpected symbol: 'ecr'''. Located at position 31 within expression: contains(inputs.registries, ''ecr'') && jobs.setup.outputs.ecr_image || '''' [Ln 72, Col 120]

Expected behavior

The 1st workflow does not throw any errors when being run in Github Actions runners, so I'd expect no errors to be printed by this extension.

Extension Version

v0.27.1

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