Strange warning

[karlbrown-va]

I get a strange warning as follows when running this as a github action:

##[warning]Unexpected input 'args', valid inputs are ['']`
Run peter-evans/link-checker@v1

Then the following under 'annotations'

 Check warning on line 1 in .github

@github-actions
github-actions
/ lint

.github#L1
Unexpected input 'args', valid inputs are ['']

File is as follows:

# Simple workflow for documentation checking
name: CI

on:
  push:
  pull_request:

jobs:
  lint:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - name: Checkout repo
      uses: actions/checkout@v2

    - name: Link Checker
      id: lc
      uses: peter-evans/link-checker@v1
      with:
        args: -r *

    - name: Fail if there were link errors
      run: exit ${{ steps.lc.outputs.exit_code }}

Any idea what might be causing this?

[peter-evans]

Hi @karlbrown-va

This is likely a workflow formatting issue, but I don't see anything obviously wrong with your workflow.

Check the whitespace before args and make sure it's properly indented using spaces.

    - name: Link Checker
      id: lc
      uses: peter-evans/link-checker@v1
      with:
        args: -r *

[karlbrown-va]

I've checked the spacing, it looks ok to me.

The issue seems to be reproduced in your repo as well (the warning here is the same as the warning I saw in my action) https://github.com/peter-evans/link-checker/actions/runs/106355340

This doesn't seem to impact behavior, it's just a minor annoyance - but I can't figure out what is causing it. Maybe the with: args: format is no longer supported officially, and maybe it's supposed to be structured a different way?

[peter-evans]

@karlbrown-va I hadn't noticed that warning before! Thank you for pointing it out. I've fixed the issue and created a new release. The problem was that the definition for the args input was missing from action.yml. Fixed here: https://github.com/peter-evans/link-checker/commit/bc9495609301da345ab51ea3eeb70a2dceefa19c