Goreleaser did not find GITHUB_TOKEN

Question

I have a project and I'm trying to set up goreleaser using GitHub Actions. But I'm getting an error:

GoReleaser latest installed successfully v0.1.0 tag found for commit '96480db'
/opt/hostedtoolcache/goreleaser-action/1.10.2/x64/goreleaser release --rm-dist
  •starting release...
  • loading config file                              file=.goreleaser.yml
  ⨯release failed after 0serror=yaml: line 26: did not find expected key

Error: The process '/opt/hostedtoolcache/goreleaser-action/1.10.2/x64/goreleaser' failed with exit code 1

.goreleaser.yml

before:
  hooks:
    - go mod tidy

builds:

  - main: cmd/gsolc-select/main.go
    binary: gsolc-select
    id: gsolc-select-cli

    env:
      - CGO_ENABLED=0

    goos: [ windows,linux,darwin ]
    goarch: [ amd64,386,arm,arm64 ]
    ignore:
      - goos: darwin
        goarch: 386
      - goos: windows
        goarch: arm
      - goos: windows
        goarch: arm64

    flags:
      - -trimpath

  - main: cmd/solc/main.go
    binary: solc
    id: solc

    env:
      - CGO_ENABLED=0

    goos: [ windows,linux,darwin ]
      goarch: [ amd64,386,arm,arm64 ]
      ignore:
        - goos: darwin
          goarch: 386
        - goos: windows
          goarch: arm
        - goos: windows
          goarch: arm64

archives:
  - format: zip
    id: gsolc-select
    builds: [ gsolc-select-cli ]
    replacements:
      darwin: macOS

  - format: zip
      id: solc
      builds: [ solc ]
      replacements:
        darwin: macOS

checksum:
  algorithm: sha256

.github/workflows/release.yml

name:  Release Binary

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - "v*"
jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
        with:
          go-version: 1.18

      - uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@v3
        with:
          args: "release --rm-dist"
          version: latest
          workdir: .
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"

As I understand it, the github itself provides the secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN value. I tried through settings -> secrets -> add a custom token (environment variable), but the error was the same. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Answer 1

Your gorelease.yml file has different indentations problems.

I'm not familiar with GoReleaser, and the error message isn't helping, but using tools like:

• http://www.yamllint.com/ (this one reproduces the same error message when validating the file: error=yaml: line 26: did not find expected key)
  • Note that the goreleaser check also returns that message.
• https://jsonformatter.org/yaml-validator (this one pointed out the indentation error)
• https://codebeautify.org/yaml-validator (this one also pointed out the indentation error)

I observed that this block:

    goos: [ windows,linux,darwin ]
      goarch: [ amd64,386,arm,arm64 ]
      ignore:
        - goos: darwin
          goarch: 386
        - goos: windows
          goarch: arm
        - goos: windows
          goarch: arm64

Should instead be like this:

    goos: [ windows,linux,darwin ]
    goarch: [ amd64,386,arm,arm64 ]
    ignore:
      - goos: darwin
        goarch: 386
      - goos: windows
        goarch: arm
      - goos: windows
        goarch: arm64

---

And this other block:

  - format: zip
      id: solc
      builds: [ solc ]
      replacements:
        darwin: macOS

Should instead be like this:

  - format: zip
    id: solc
    builds: [ solc ]
    replacements:
      darwin: macOS

Correcting the indentation should resolve the problem. Moreover, as it doesn't seem to be related to the Github Actions workflow configurations, it should allow the workflow to run as expected.