Creating a Docker actions incorrectly stating that you must declare inputs

[nikola-jokic]

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/creating-actions/creating-a-docker-container-action

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

In the section Creating an action metadata file, it is stated that you need to specify inputs in order to pass them to the container. This is not exactly the case which is explained in runner issue #499. If you use with.args, arguments will be passed to the entrypoint regardless of input spec.
This is explained well in this part of the documentation but contradicts a bit with the part I am opening an issue for.

Note that this last part, . /env ; docker ... is taken from issue#499

Additional information

You can refer to my example in test repository. Please note that in actions.yaml, there were no specified inputs, but if you pass inputs using with.args, they will be passed to the container. So this should be added to the docs as well.

[ramyaparimi]

@nikola-jokic
Thanks so much for opening an issue! I'll triage this for the team to take a look 👀

[nikola-jokic]

Hi @ramyaparimi,

Let me know if the team agrees, so I can work on a PR as well 😊