GitHub Action to retrieve metadata from the pub spec.yaml file that Dart and Flutter packages have.

Inspired by flutter-version-number-action

pubspec-metadata allows you to get the version and build number separately.

See action.yaml

- name: Pubspec Metadata
  uses: altive/pubspec-metadata@v1
  id: pubspec
  with:
    # Path to pubspec.yaml. this is needed for monorepo.
    # Default: ./pubspec.yaml
    pubspec-file: ./packages/flutter_app/pubspec.yaml

- name: Print metadata
  run: |
    echo ${{ steps.pubspec.outputs.name }}
    echo ${{ steps.pubspec.outputs.version-number }}
    echo ${{ steps.pubspec.outputs.build-number }}

The name of the package as defined in the pubspec.yaml file.

The version number of the package as defined in the pubspec.yaml file.

The build number of the package as defined in the pubspec.yaml file.

It is defined following the "+" after version number. If not defined, it will be empty.

• https://dart.dev/tools/pub/pubspec