modified: .github/actions/recent-posts/action.yml

	- Added outputs section.

modified:   .github/actions/recent-posts/main.py
	- Appending `json_string` to GITHUB_OUTPUT environment variable/file.

modified:   .github/workflows/recent-posts.yml
	- Echoing the resulting output from the action.

Author: it176131

.github/actions/recent-posts/action.yml

@@ -4,3 +4,7 @@ description: "Get the most recent blog post metadata."
 runs:
   using: "docker"
   image: "Dockerfile"
+
+outputs:
+  result:
+    description: "The most recent blog post's metadata."

.github/actions/recent-posts/main.py

@@ -43,5 +43,7 @@ class Feed(BaseXmlModel, tag="feed", nsmap=NSMAP, search_mode="ordered"):
     console = Console()
     model = Feed.from_xml(source=xml)
     json_string = model.model_dump_json()
-    environ["GITHUB_OUTPUT"] = json_string
+    with open(environ["GITHUB_OUTPUT"], mode="a") as f:
+        f.write(f"result={json_string}")
+
     print(environ["GITHUB_OUTPUT"])

.github/workflows/recent-posts.yml

@@ -7,4 +7,6 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Recent post action
         id: recent-post
-        uses: "it176131/it176131.github.io/.github/actions/recent-posts@v1"
+        uses: "it176131/it176131.github.io/.github/actions/recent-posts@v1"
+      - name: Get the result
+        run: echo ${{ steps.recent-post.outputs.result }}