Contensis cli action

This action allows you to interact with Contensis CMS via cli commands in your own Github Actions

Inputs

alias

Required 'The Contensis cloud alias to connect to'

project-id

The id of the project to connect to. Default: "website"

client-id

Required Client id to connect to the supplied alias

shared-secret

Required Shared secret to use with the supplied client id

command

Required The cli command to run including all arguments and options

cli-version

Use cli from specified tag. Default: "release"'

cli-splash

Set false to hide cli welcome screen. Default: true'

Outputs

command-output

The output returned from the command, any json data will be returned stringified and must be parsed in order to access json elements

Here is a way to parse stringified command output, access a json element and assign the value to a GitHub environment var, accessible as ${{ env.version }} in later job steps

run: |
  VERSION_NO=$(echo -e ${{ steps.cli.outputs.command-output }} | jq .version.versionNo)
  echo "version=$VERSION_NO" >> $GITHUB_ENV

Example usage

Get entries

uses: contensis/cli-action@v1
with:
  command: get entries --zenql "sys.contentTypeId = blogPost"
  alias: example-dev
  project-id: contensis
  client-id: ${{ secrets.CONTENSIS_CLIENT_ID }}
  shared-secret: ${{ secrets.CONTENSIS_SHARED_SECRET }}

Create a content type from a file

uses: contensis/cli-action@v1
with:
  command: create contenttype blogPost --from-file ./content-models/blogPost.json
  alias: example-dev
  project-id: contensis
  client-id: ${{ secrets.CONTENSIS_CLIENT_ID }}
  shared-secret: ${{ secrets.CONTENSIS_SHARED_SECRET }}