Using with on: [deployment_status]

Our app is continuously deployed using Vercel. Every commit of every pull request is being deployed, so I want our Cypress tests to run against this deployment. For that reason, our test workflow is not triggered by push or pull_request, but by deployment_status. But we still want to create a commit status on the pull request at then end. Our workflow file is currently looking like this:

name: End-to-end tests
on: [deployment_status]

jobs:
  cypress-run:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: ${{ github.event.deployment_status.state == 'success' }}
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: debug
        uses: hmarr/debug-action@master
        env:
          TEST_URL: ${{ github.event.deployment_status.target_url }}
      - name: Cypress run
        id: cypress
        uses: cypress-io/github-action@v1
        # Continue the build in case of an error, as we need to set the
        # commit status in the next step, both in case of success and failure
        continue-on-error: true
        with:
          spec: cypress/integration/happy.spec.js
          record: true
          env: base_url=${{ github.event.deployment_status.target_url }}
          ci-build-id: ${{ github.sha }}
        env:
          CYPRESS_RECORD_KEY: ${{ secrets.CYPRESS_RECORD_KEY }}
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      # Action does not set commit/pull reques status automatically, because it
      # is not triggered by the `push` event. So we have to set the commit
      # status manually.
      - name: Create commit status
        uses: octokit/request-action@v2.x
        id: create_status
        with:
          route: POST /repos/:repository/statuses/:sha
          repository: ${{ github.repository }}
          sha: ${{ github.sha }}
          context: test
          description: Cypress run
          state: ${{ steps.cypress.outcome}}
          target_url: https://dashboard.cypress.io/projects/4nc4rv/runs
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

And setting the status works as expected:

But I would like to set the target_url to the actual run URL, e.g. https://dashboard.cypress.io/projects/4nc4rv/runs/11/specs. But I cannot find a way to know that URL, because I don’t know the run number 11 in the create_status step.

GitHub Actions support setting outputs for that purpose: https://help.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflow-commands-for-github-actions#setting-an-output-parameter. If cypress-io/github-action knows the run URL, could you set it to an output parameter?

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Related question: Branch is currently undefined in our runs: https://dashboard.cypress.io/projects/4nc4rv/runs/11/specs, I guess the reason is that the build is not triggered by push or pull_request. Is there a way to set the branch name manually from my side?

[chinchang]

The following approach is lot better -> https://twitter.com/mikenikles/status/1272138850333327360?s=20 Works with push/pull event

[bahmutov]

I mean - yes, it is passed correctly. But I think allowing the step to fail, and yet running a step after that is better than continue_on_error.