@actions/core
logging - extract AnnotationProperties
from Error
instances
#1696
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Background
While improving a logging situation in
actions/configure-pages
, I had the idea that it might be nice if the@actions/core
module'serror
,warning
, andnotice
commands would implicitly extract their optionalAnnotationProperties
metadata parameter from the stack traces of the sometimes-providedError
instance parameter. 💡This PR is my rough cut at what that might look like. 💝
Totally open to revisions, refactoring, etc. 👂🏻
Edit: I updated the behavior for defaulting the
properties
parameter such that I think this could probably be considered a non-breaking change. 🤞🏻ℹ️ Clarification after chatting with @joshmgross a bit: this behavior will create an annotation for whatever action/step is utilizing the
@actions/core
module for logging. That may or may not align with the intended use of annotations, which commonly point to files that are present within the consuming repository. That said, it does still successfully display an annotation in the workflow summary (although the link it generates won't match any target if the file isn't in the repo):