Question about releases_created and tag names

[snuggie12]

TL;DR

This is more of a question but possibly a feature request. If using manifest and paths_released, how are you supposed to get the tag name? In the tests (such as your own test you explicitly list a and b but don't use paths_released to figure that out,) or any examples I've seen around the path is known. However we have 5 different paths that could be there so I'm unsure how to make a job output from the release-please step. Or is it that all 5 are added to the outputs manually and I'm supposed to use an if condition to check that foo--release_created is true?

If there isn't a really good answer would it be possible to make an object instead like:

{
  "foo": {
    "tag_name": "foo-v1.2.3",
    ...
  },
  "bar": {
    "tag_name": "bar-v.4.5.6"
    ...
  }
}

Detailed design

No response

Additional information

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[snuggie12]

I confirmed that this approach is feasible. Here is the step and job after release-please in which I decide which of the 5 helm charts to publish. The include part of the matrix is very important though I can't say I understand it. A slight modification to my above proposal is that it turns out it's an array of objects instead of nested like I propose:

      - id: make-release-output
        run: |
          p1='{"release_created":${{ steps.release.outputs.argocd-apps--release_created }},"tag_name":"${{ steps.release.outputs.argocd-apps--tag_name }}"}'
          p2='{"release_created":${{ steps.release.outputs.cloudsql--release_created }},"tag_name":"${{ steps.release.outputs.cloudsql--tag_name }}"}'
          p3='{"release_created":${{ steps.release.outputs.k6--release_created }},"tag_name":"${{ steps.release.outputs.k6--tag_name }}"}'
          p4='{"release_created":${{ steps.release.outputs.ml-postgres-exporter--release_created }},"tag_name":"${{ steps.release.outputs.ml-postgres-exporter--tag_name }}"}'
          p5='{"release_created":${{ steps.release.outputs.ml-service--release_created }},"tag_name":"${{ steps.release.outputs.ml-service--tag_name }}"}'
          echo "releases={\"include\":[${p1},${p2},${p3},${p4},${p5}]}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
    outputs:
      release_created: ${{ steps.release.outputs.releases_created }}
      releases: ${{ steps.make-release-output.outputs.releases }}

  publish:
    if: ${{ needs.release.outputs.release_created }}
    needs:
      - release
    runs-on: self-hosted
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.release.outputs.releases) }}
    container:
      image: "REDACTED/automation/helm-publisher:latest"
      credentials:
        username: ${{ secrets.ARTIFACTORY_USERNAME }}
        password: ${{ secrets.ARTIFACTORY_PASSWORD }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - id: publish
        if: ${{ matrix.release_created }}
        run: |
          VERSION=$(echo "${{ matrix.tag_name }}" | sed 's:.*-v::');
          CHART_NAME=$(echo "${{ matrix.tag_name }}" | sed 's/-[^-]*$//');
          ./helm-publish.sh "$CHART_NAME" "$VERSION"

[chingor13]

Similar to what you have above, you should be able to take the paths_released output, use fromJson(needs.release.outputs.paths_released) as the matrix. Then build the output from <path>--tag_name https://github.com/google-github-actions/release-please-action#path-outputs