Crowdin Action does not create PR and fails with error: jq: error (at <stdin>:4): Cannot index string with string "head"

[sumitahluwalia]

Describe the bug
Pull request does not get created when the crowdin executed is executed.
The script fails with error:

 jq: error (at <stdin>:4): Cannot index string with string "head"

To Reproduce

1. I previously had github integration enabled for the same project. I just tried to switch to using the action.
2. I have the action added here: https://github.com/sumitahluwalia/crowdin/blob/main/.github/workflows/main.yml
3. You can see my action executed here: https://github.com/sumitahluwalia/crowdin/runs/2417311249
4. crowdin.yml file: https://github.com/sumitahluwalia/crowdin/blob/main/crowdin.yml

Expected behavior
The PR request should be created.

Additional context

STARTING CROWDIN ACTION
UPLOAD SOURCES
✔️  Fetching project info
✔️  File 'FileToTranslate.json'
UPLOAD TRANSLATIONS
✔️  Fetching project info
✔️  Translation file 'Translations/fr.json' has been uploaded
✔️  Translation file 'Translations/en.json' has been uploaded
DOWNLOAD TRANSLATIONS
✔️  Fetching project info
✔️  Building ZIP archive with the latest translations
✔️  Building translation (100%)
✔️  Downloading translation
✔️  Extracted: 'Translations/en.json'
✔️  Extracted: 'Translations/fr.json'
CONFIGURATION GIT USER
Already on 'main'
M	Translations/en.json
M	Translations/fr.json
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.
Switched to a new branch 'l10n_crowdin_action'
PUSH TO BRANCH l10n_crowdin_action
[l10n_crowdin_action d62d3e9] New Crowdin translations by Github Action
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
To https://github.com/sumitahluwalia/crowdin.git
 + 6355e60...d62d3e9 l10n_crowdin_action -> l10n_crowdin_action (forced update)
CHECK IF ISSET SAME PULL REQUEST
jq: error (at <stdin>:4): Cannot index string with string "head"

[og-fox]

Hi @sumitahluwalia! I'm sorry to hear you were faced with such behavior and thank you a million for bringing this to our attention! Already asking the tech team to take a look

[sumitahluwalia]

Hi @sumitahluwalia! I'm sorry to hear you were faced with such behavior and thank you a million for bringing this to our attention! Already asking the tech team to take a look

Thanks a lot for the quick response! Please let me know incase I can use any work around as well for this.

[VBeytok]

@sumitahluwalia Hi sorry for so fast response 😅 , is the problem exists?

[subbuswaroop]

@VBeytok I started facing the same issue from today.

1. My action file: https://github.com/subbuswaroop/crowdin-sync-repo/blob/main/.github/workflows/main.yml
2. Action execution : https://github.com/subbuswaroop/crowdin-sync-repo/actions/runs/1312868143
3. Crowdin.yml file : https://github.com/subbuswaroop/crowdin-sync-repo/blob/main/crowdin.yml

Expected Behaviour:
Pull request should be created

Logs
`
STARTING CROWDIN ACTION
UPLOAD SOURCES
✔️ Fetching project info
✔️ File 'en.json'

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ New version of Crowdin CLI is available! 3.1.13 -> 3.7.0 │
│ Please update for best experience! │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
DOWNLOAD TRANSLATIONS
✔️ Fetching project info
✔️ Building ZIP archive with the latest translations
✔️ Building translation (100%)
✔️ Downloading translation
✔️ Extracted: 'locales-json/hi-IN.json'
✔️ Extracted: 'locales-json/ta-IN.json'
✔️ Extracted: 'locales-json/zh-TW.json'

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ New version of Crowdin CLI is available! 3.1.13 -> 3.7.0 │
│ Please update for best experience! │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
CONFIGURATION GIT USER
Switched to a new branch 'translations_branch'
PUSH TO BRANCH translations_branch
[translations_branch 1dd140b] New Crowdin translations by Github Action
3 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 locales-json/hi-IN.json
create mode 100644 locales-json/ta-IN.json
create mode 100644 locales-json/zh-TW.json
remote:
remote: Create a pull request for 'translations_branch' on GitHub by visiting:
remote: https://github.com/subbuswaroop/crowdin-sync-repo/pull/new/translations_branch
remote:
To https://github.com/subbuswaroop/crowdin-sync-repo.git

• [new branch] translations_branch -> translations_branch
  CHECK IF ISSET SAME PULL REQUEST
  jq: error (at :4): Cannot index string with string "head"
  `

Any help would be appreciated :)

[VBeytok]

Hi @subbuswaroop! Let's try first set new version of github action uses: crowdin/github-action@1.4.0 and re-run action.

[subbuswaroop]

Hey @VBeytok .. Tried using crowdin/github-action@1.4.0 but still getting the same error

[subbuswaroop]

@VBeytok Were you able to find anything? 🙂

[VBeytok]

Hi @subbuswaroop
I reproduced your error, its happened because your personal token is wrong or expired witch you use in ${{ secrets.PRIVATE_TOKEN }} update secret or use the default ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

[subbuswaroop]

@VBeytok Thank you for the response. But I'm still getting the same error even after using the default ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}. I can see that a new branch is getting created. But only the PULL_REQUEST fails. Do I need to delete the branch and try running the script again? Will that work?

[VBeytok]

@subbuswaroop try this pull request subbuswaroop/crowdin-sync-repo#5. For this case, you do not need to delete branch.

[subbuswaroop]

@VBeytok Sorry for the dumb response earlier. I was actually changing the ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} in another workflow file and was expecting the current one to work 😒.

It's working now. Thank you very much. Have a great day :)

[VBeytok]

@subbuswaroop Thanks, you too!

[googol7]

I just had the same problem and was able to solve it by using:

GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Does the documentation need an update? Here for example you write:

# A classic GitHub Personal Access Token with the 'repo' scope selected (the user should have write access to the repository).
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}

In this official video https://youtu.be/5b7BMuCoKGg?t=382 he says:

"You do need to have a secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN. You can create your GitHub by yourself. You can also use an automatic one that GitHub provides."

That doesn't seem to be true.

[andrii-bodnar]

@googol7 please refer to the Permissions section in the Readme.

In case you want to use an automatic GitHub authentication token, you need to assign the write permission to your job and allow GH Actions to create Pull Requests.

[googol7]

Could the error message be improved when there's a problem with the token?