How to run an action that will be run by repository_dispatch event?

[FeryET]

I am trying to run an action that should be run when a repository_dispatch event is issued in another workflow.

My current event.json is like this:

{
        "event_type": "deploy.staging",
        "client_payload": {
                "service_name": "frontend",
                "service_version": "v0.1.9"
        }

}

And I am submitting my workflow via this command:

$ act 'repository_dispatch' -e event.json --secret TOKEN="$secret_token"  

But the variables related to payload are empty in the above command. Am I running this correctly?

[excalq]

This is how I test repository_dispatch events with act, keeping the JSON value inline, though referencing a .json file is fine. The key seems to the github.events JSON having action and client_payload keys.

act repository_dispatch --verbose --workflows .github/workflows/web-ui-deployment.yaml --secret GITHUB_TOKEN="$(gh auth token)" \
  --eventpath <(echo '{"action": "staging-deployment-web-ui", "client_payload": {"tag": "v0.1.2"}}') \
  --var AWS_REGION=$AWS_REGION --var APP_ENVIRONMENT=$APP_ENVIRONMENT