GitHub does not allow secrets to be passed down to reusable workflow

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I am trying to pass secrets to reusable workflow as shown here: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/reusing-workflows#passing-inputs-and-secrets-to-a-reusable-workflow

But the pipeline fails, stating that:

The workflow is not valid. .github/workflows/test.workflow-test.yml (Line: 17, Col: 9): Unexpected value 'secrets'

My .github/actions/test/action.yml looks like that:

name: Reusable workflow example

on:
  workflow_call:
    inputs:
      username:
        required: true
        type: string
    secrets:
      token:
        required: true

jobs:
  example_job:
    name: show
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: show data
        runs: echo ${{ secrets.token }}

And I'm calling it accordingly:

name: Call a reusable workflow

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - "feature/workflow-test"

jobs:
  my-test-job:
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - uses: ./.github/actions/test
        with:
          username: John
        secrets:
          token: secret Token

What I am missing here? It is almost identical to the code samples within GitHub's documentation.

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1 Answers

There are two issues that I can see with your example.

The path to reusable workflow needs to be .github/workflows. Currently subdirs are not supported.

Also, the way you call reusable workflow is not according to docs.

Here's an example that should work:

name: Call a reusable workflow

on:
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  reusable-job:
    uses: <owner>/<repo>/.github/workflows/<reusable workflow>@master
    with:
      username: john
    secrets:
      token: test

And following reusable workflow:

name: Reusable workflow

on:
  workflow_call:
    inputs:
      username:
        required: true
        type: string
    secrets:
      token:
        required: true

jobs:
  show:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:

      - name: Show data
        run: |
          echo ${{ inputs.username }}
          echo ${{ secrets.token}}
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