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Fix unquoted shell variables according to ShellCheck #44

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This is just applying all the fixes suggested by https://www.shellcheck.net/. If you paste the old commands there (and optionally add a #!/usr/bin/env bash line at the beginning to get rid of the Tips depend on target shell and yours is unknown. message) and click one of the "apply all SC2086" links, you'll end up with the same changes.

See https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/wiki/SC2086 for more details.

This is just applying all the fixes suggested by
https://www.shellcheck.net/. If you paste the old commands there (and
optionally add a `#!/usr/bin/env bash` line at the beginning to get rid
of the `Tips depend on target shell and yours is unknown.` message) and
click one of the "apply all SC2086" links, you'll end up with the same
changes.

See https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/wiki/SC2086 for more details.
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generalmimon commented Apr 8, 2024

I think the most important fix is echo ${JOBINFO} -> echo "${JOBINFO}". The JOBINFO variable is the full JSON response from the GitHub REST API endpoint. The existing unquoted version echo ${JOBINFO} is subject to the same behavior as described at https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/wiki/SC2086#rationale:

The first code looks like "print the first argument". It's actually "Split the first argument by IFS (spaces, tabs and line feeds). Expand each of them as if it was a glob. Join all the resulting strings and filenames with spaces. Print the result."

For starters, this means that each group of consecutive whitespace characters (because by default IFS=$' \t\n', as you can check with declare -p IFS) is replaced by a single space in the entire JSON contents before it is processed by jq. Since JSON mostly ignores whitespace, this replacement will go unnoticed most of the time, but note that string literals in the JSON are also affected by this. So it would be a problem if someone had a job name with a double space in it, for example:

jobs:
  build:
    name: Double  space
    steps:
      - uses: Tiryoh/gha-jobid-action@v1
        id: jobs
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          job_name: Double  space

Although the job_name is correct, the old commands would not be able to find this job in the JSON response (and would fail with parse error, job_id is null and total_count is 1.). Here is why:

JOBINFO='{
  "total_count": 1,
  "jobs": [
    {
      "name": "Double  space"
    }
  ]
}'
( set -x; echo ${JOBINFO} )

Output:

+ echo '{' '"total_count":' 1, '"jobs":' '[' '{' '"name":' '"Double' 'space"' '}' ']' '}'
{ "total_count": 1, "jobs": [ { "name": "Double space" } ] }

Note that the double space between Double and space has been replaced with a single space.

When JOBINFO is wrapped into double quotes (as it should be), no such incorrect text replacement occurs - here is the output of ( set -x; echo "${JOBINFO}" ):

+ echo '{
  "total_count": 1,
  "jobs": [
    {
      "name": "Double  space"
    }
  ]
}'
{
  "total_count": 1,
  "jobs": [
    {
      "name": "Double  space"
    }
  ]
}

Fixing this bug might in theory solve #35 (comment) (we can't know for sure since @p0fi didn't provide much information to confirm or deny this), because it would match the symptoms mentioned by @p0fi:

  1. job_name is supposedly correct,

  2. With this context the current action (1.2.0) does not work while 0.1.2 still works.

    This matches as well, because the old entrypoint.sh used in 0.1.2 doesn't have the problem with unquoted JSON contents. This problem only exists since ffbe004, which first appeared in 1.0.0.

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Tiryoh commented Jun 9, 2024

Hi @generalmimon,

Sorry to kept you waiting and thanks for your PR.
I'll take a look at your PR.

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LGTM, thanks @generalmimon!

@Tiryoh Tiryoh merged commit 187f267 into Tiryoh:main Jun 9, 2024
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@generalmimon generalmimon deleted the fix-unquoted-variables branch June 9, 2024 12:35
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