Use jq instead of sed for cleaning up JSON

Author: bobbrodie

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -43,20 +43,29 @@ jobs:
       - name: Extract release data
         id: release
         run: |
-          echo "title=$(echo "${{ github.event.release.name }}" | sed 's/"/\\"/g')" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          echo "body=$(echo "${{ github.event.release.body }}" | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/\\n/g' | sed 's/"/\\"/g')" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          echo "title=${{ github.event.release.name }}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          echo "body<<EOF" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          echo "${{ github.event.release.body }}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          echo "EOF" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+
+      - name: Install jq
+        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y jq
 
       - name: Publish changelog to Readme
         env:
           README_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.README_API_KEY }}
         run: |
+          jq -n --arg title "Python Unified SDK ${{ steps.release.outputs.title }}" \
+                --arg body "${{ steps.release.outputs.body }}" \
+                '{
+                  author: { id: $authorId },
+                  title: $title,
+                  body: $body,
+                  privacy: { view: "public" }
+                }' > payload.json
+
           curl --location 'https://api.readme.com/v2/changelogs' \
-          --header "Authorization: Bearer $README_API_KEY" \
-          --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-          --data '{
-              "body": "${{ steps.release.outputs.body }}",
-              "title": "Python Unified SDK ${{ steps.release.outputs.title }}",
-              "privacy": {
-                  "view": "public"
-              }
-          }'
+            --header "Authorization: Bearer $README_API_KEY" \
+            --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
+            --data @payload.json
+