Type Props for actions and tasks

I’ll bet we can use inputs to learn the types of params for actions and tasks, and that would really help the developer experience!

Ideally:

import { Action } from 'actionhero'

export class UserView extends Action {
  constructor() {
    super();
    this.name = "user:view";
    this.description = "view the details of a user";
    this.outputExample = {};
    this.inputs = {
      guid: { required: true, type: string },
    };
  }

  async run({ params, response }) {
   // we should be able to know that `params` only has the property `guid` and is of type `string`
    const user = await User.findByGuid(params.guid);
    response.user = await user.formatForApi();
  }
}

[krlicmuhamed]

@krlicmuhamed Can you share example code to reproduce the error?

Here you go https://github.com/krlicmuhamed/apiauth

$ npm run build && npm run start 

> my_actionhero_project@0.1.0 build
> tsc --sourceMap false --declaration


> my_actionhero_project@0.1.0 start
> node ./dist/server.js

2021-01-05T15:25:54.820Z - alert: Failed to load C:/Projects/APIAUTH/dist/actions/classes/authenticatedAction.js stacktrace=Error: name is required for this action
    at AuthenticatedAction.validate (C:\Projects\APIAUTH\node_modules\actionhero\dist\classes\action.js:51:19)
    at Object.index_1.api.actions.loadFile (C:\Projects\APIAUTH\node_modules\actionhero\dist\initializers\actions.js:37:34)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:93:5)
    at async Actions.initialize (C:\Projects\APIAUTH\node_modules\actionhero\dist\initializers\actions.js:68:17)
    at async Object.initializeFunction (C:\Projects\APIAUTH\node_modules\actionhero\dist\classes\process.js:101:29)
    at async Object.asyncWaterfall (C:\Projects\APIAUTH\node_modules\actionhero\dist\modules\utils\asyncWaterfall.js:47:23)
    at async Process.initialize (C:\Projects\APIAUTH\node_modules\actionhero\dist\classes\process.js:170:13)
    at async Process.start (C:\Projects\APIAUTH\node_modules\actionhero\dist\classes\process.js:179:13)
    at async main (C:\Projects\APIAUTH\dist\server.js:13:5)
2021-01-05T15:25:54.865Z - emerg: Exception occurred in initializer `actions` during load 
2021-01-05T15:25:54.867Z - emerg: Error with initializer step: "initialize"
2021-01-05T15:25:54.869Z - emerg: Error: name is required for this action
    at AuthenticatedAction.validate (C:\Projects\APIAUTH\node_modules\actionhero\dist\classes\action.js:51:19)
    at Object.index_1.api.actions.loadFile (C:\Projects\APIAUTH\node_modules\actionhero\dist\initializers\actions.js:37:34)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:93:5)
    at async Actions.initialize (C:\Projects\APIAUTH\node_modules\actionhero\dist\initializers\actions.js:68:17)
    at async Object.initializeFunction (C:\Projects\APIAUTH\node_modules\actionhero\dist\classes\process.js:101:29)
    at async Object.asyncWaterfall (C:\Projects\APIAUTH\node_modules\actionhero\dist\modules\utils\asyncWaterfall.js:47:23)
    at async Process.initialize (C:\Projects\APIAUTH\node_modules\actionhero\dist\classes\process.js:170:13)
    at async Process.start (C:\Projects\APIAUTH\node_modules\actionhero\dist\classes\process.js:179:13)
    at async main (C:\Projects\APIAUTH\dist\server.js:13:5)
2021-01-05T15:25:54.904Z - crit: Cannot shut down actionhero, not running 
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path C:\Projects\APIAUTH
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c node ./dist/server.js

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\Muhamed\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2021-01-05T15_25_55_980Z-debug.log

[papb]

Pong! Sorry for the delay, I have been quite busy, but hopefully next week I will be able to help you. Sorry!!