Not triggering workflow

[CWSites]

Both of my workflows are on master of my repository. I'm not getting any error messages, however the workflow is not being triggered

Workflow that should be the trigger

  verification:
    name: Workflow - Lint, Test & Build
    runs-on: 'ubuntu-latest'

    steps:
      - name: Repository Dispatch
        uses: peter-evans/repository-dispatch@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ github.token }}
          repository: ${{ github.repository }}
          event-type: run-lint-test-build
          client-payload: '{"ref": "${{ github.ref }}", "sha": "${{ github.sha }}"}'

Workflow that I am attempting to trigger

name: Lint, Test & Build

on:
  repository_dispatch:
    types: [run-lint-test-build]

jobs:
  verification:
    name: Lint, Test & Build
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout source code
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          ref: ${{ github.event.client_payload.ref }}
      - run: echo ${{ github.event.client_payload.sha }}

[peter-evans]

Hi @CWSites

The default repository token does not work. You need to create a repo scoped PAT. Please see the note in the readme here: https://github.com/peter-evans/repository-dispatch#token

[CWSites]

Thanks for the info, I had read through all of that before and thought the token I was already using had the correct permissions. I got it working thanks to your comment.

It would be helpful if there was some kind of warning if the permissions aren't correct.

[peter-evans]

Glad you've got it working.

Unfortunately I don't think there is any way to know that the permissions of the token are incorrect. The GitHub API this action calls does not return an error message. It might be deliberate for security reasons.

[rogerluan]

Hey 👋

I'm facing the exact same issue as OP, 4 years later and I don't think a PAT is really needed, is it? The docs say:

repository-dispatch/README.md

Lines 36 to 39 in 25b9822

	#### Token
	This action creates [`repository_dispatch`](https://docs.github.com/en/rest/repos/repos#create-a-repository-dispatch-event) events.
	The default `GITHUB_TOKEN` token can only be used if you are dispatching the same repository that the workflow is executing in.

For reference, here's my caller workflow:

# …

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: write
# …
    steps:
      - name: Trigger infra deployment
        uses: peter-evans/repository-dispatch@v3
         with:
           event-type: deploy
           client-payload: >
             {
               "environment": "${{ env.ENVIRONMENT }}"
             }

And the callee:

# …
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
  workflow_dispatch:
  repository_dispatch:
    types: [deploy]
# …

And what I'm getting is: the action isn't throwing any errors, but the workflow isn't triggered.

Thanks in advance for the help! 🙇‍♂

[rogerluan]

Nevermind, user error 😅

I was looking for the workflow execution in the list of checks for the commit, but it doesn't show up there, just in the repo-wide actions run. I guess this makes sense since it wasn't the commit that initiated that workflow run, it was a repository-dispatch 👍