[BUG] Failed to retrieve - Invalid tag? - Because of: HttpError: Not Found

[cYKatherine]

[BUG] Failed to retrieve - Invalid tag? - Because of: HttpError: Not Found

[mikepenz]

if you specify the tag it has to exist as tag. If the tag does not exist, you can pass in the git ref (commit sha) instead of the state you want to compare with.

The action fails as it tries to get the state from the toTag you pass, which does not exist.

[mikepenz]

@cYKatherine awesome news! glad I was able to help.

[mikepenz]

Good day.

The action likely has no access to those tags. Which token do you provide for it to run?
Please also provide how you configure the action in your CI yaml file?

[cYKatherine]

Hello @mikepenz , thank you so much for the quick response!

      name: Build Docker Changelog
      id: github_release_docker
      if: ${{ inputs.is_release == 'true' && inputs.publish_platform == 'Docker'}}
      uses: mikepenz/release-changelog-builder-action@v4
      with:
        toTag: v${{ inputs.version_number_input }}
        configurationJson: |
          {
            "template": "#{{CHANGELOG}}\n## Installation\n```\ndocker pull ${{ inputs.tags }}\n```\n\n## Image reference to deploy: \n```\n${{ inputs.image_tag }}\n```\n\n## Changelog\n#{{UNCATEGORIZED}}",
            "pr_template": " - #{{TITLE}} - ( PR: ##{{NUMBER}} )"
          }
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ inputs.github_token }}

Above is my yaml file. I passed in the github_token through inputs as there are several layers of call to pass this through. The github_token value should be legit as I am able to do actions like docker/login-action@v3 using this value.

[mikepenz]

Thank you.

Yes that should in general work.

The error is thrown by the code here:

release-changelog-builder-action/src/pr-collector/commits.ts

Line 82 in 41adfd2

failOrError(`💥 Failed to retrieve - Invalid tag? - Because of: ${error}`, failOnError)

And is usually giving Not found if the request does not succeed for the token:

release-changelog-builder-action/src/repositories/GithubRepository.ts

Line 21 in 41adfd2

let commits: RestEndpointMethodTypes['repos']['compareCommits']['response']['data']['commits'] = []

the tags are on this repo you execute for? And the token should have read access to pull requests and commits?

In case, please validate the permissions are granted: https://github.com/mikepenz/release-changelog-builder-action?tab=readme-ov-file#token-permission

[cYKatherine]

In my action I have write permission to everything, that should imply read permission as well right?

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: write
      security-events: write
      packages: write
      pull-requests: write

The tags are indeed on the repo I execute for:

Not really sure what else I'm missing 🤔

[mikepenz]

Oh I maybe see it.

The action tries to get the diff for 0.10.10 to 0.10.16

However your screenshot shows a 0.10.4 and a 0.10.10 but no 0.10.16

[cYKatherine]

The v0.10.16 is the latest tag we are releasing to: toTag: v${{ inputs.version_number_input }}, I don't think we need to have that to see the changelog?

[cYKatherine]

You are absolutely right! It works now!! Thank you so much for your help 👍