semver-action

A Github Action that wil parse, validate and then provide data back on a SemVer version number.

This includes parsing out the major, minor, patch and the pre release aspects as well as providing next version numbers for the major, minor and patch for the provided version number.

Parameters

• version: The version number to be parsed as a SemVer

Outputs

• version: The parsed SemVer value

• major: The major part of the parsed SemVer, e.g. for version 1.2.3 it would return 1

• minor: The minor part of the parsed SemVer, e.g. for version 1.2.3 it would return 2

• patch: The major part of the parsed SemVer, e.g. for version 1.2.3 it would return 3

• isPreRelease: A boolean as a string indicating if the parsed SemVer is a pre release version, e.g. for version 1.2.3 it would return false, but for 1.2.3-alpha it would return `true

• preRelease: The pre release part of the parsed SemVer as a JSON array, e.g. for version 1.2.3-alpha.1 it would return ["alpha", 1]

• preReleaseString: The pre release part of the parsed SemVer as a string, e.g. for version 1.2.3-alpha.1 it would return alpha.1

• nextMajor: The next major version number as a string, e.g. for version 1.2.3 it would return 2.0.0

• nextMinor: The next minor version number as a string, e.g. for version 1.2.3 it would return 1.3.0

• nextPatch: The next patch version number as a string, e.g. for version 1.2.3 it would return 1.2.4

• semeverData: The full JSON data structure of the parsed SemverData type

Usage

- name: Parse SemVer
  id: version
  uses: peter-murray/semver-action@v1
  with:
    version: 1.2.3-alpha.1

- name: Print next major
  run: echo ${{ steps.version.outputs.nextMajor }}