Upload to CPAN github action

WARNING: This github action is very young, use at your own risks 😀

This action upload your distribution to CPAN

It requires that you generated the dist to have a My-Distribution-0.01.tar.gz lying around 😀

Inputs

Set your credentials as github secrets and give them to with, they won't be printed during the whole process (they are "secret" after all! 😄)

username

Required The name of the PAUSE account to use.

password

Required The password of the PAUSE account to use.

Example usage

uses: actions/action-upload-to-cpan@master
with:
  username: ${{ secrets.USERNAME }}
  password: ${{ secrets.PASSWORD }}

For an ExtUtils::MakeMaker module, you can then write a .github/workflows/build-and-action.yml like this:

on: [push]

jobs:
  build-and-release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Build and release to CPAN
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Configure
      run: perl Makefile.PL
    - name: Build
      run: make
    - name: Deliver locally
      run: make dist
    - name: Upload to CPAN
      id: upload
      uses: thibaultduponchelle/action-upload-to-cpan@master
      with:
          username: ${{ secrets.USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.PASSWORD }}

Details

This github actions is based on cpan-upload and will produce this kind of logs if the upload is a success:

registering upload with PAUSE web server
POSTing upload for Acme-Automatix-0.02.tar.gz to https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=add_uri
PAUSE add message sent ok [200]

Troubleshooting

Unauthorized

You will get this message if your user/password are not correct:

registering upload with PAUSE web server
POSTing upload for Acme-Automatix-0.01.tar.gz to https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=add_uri
Upload failed (request failed with error code 401
  Message: Unauthorized
), will make attempt #1 ...

Conflict

You will get this message if your distribution already exists with the same version:

Failed to upload and reached maximum retry count!
registering upload with PAUSE web server
POSTing upload for Acme-Automatix-0.11.tar.gz to https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=add_uri
Upload failed (request failed with error code 409
  Message: Conflict
)