Gitea release plugin from_secret does not work as expected

[Lattay (Théo Cavignac)]

Hello,
I have self hosted gitea and drone servers on a raspberrypi (armv7) and I try to get latex document built and pushed as release artifact to gitea.
The build process works fine but the gitea_release fail with the message

You must provide an API key

Here is my .drone.yml

type: docker
kind: pipeline
name: default

platform:
  os: linux
  arch: arm

steps:
- name: compile
  image: lattay/texlive:armv7
  commands:
  - make
  when:
    event: tag
- name: gitea_release
  image: plugins/gitea-release
  settings:
    base_url: https://git.lattay.duckdns.org
    api_key:
      from_secret: gitea_token
    files: main.pdf
  when:
    event: tag

And here is the docker compose used to setup the drone server:

version: '3.8'
services:
    drone:
        image: drone/drone:1
        ports:
            - target: 80
              published: 7781
              protocol: tcp
              mode: host

        volumes:
            - /var/lib/drone:/data

        restart: always

        environment:
            DRONE_GITEA_CLIENT_ID: 'xxxx'
            DRONE_GITEA_CLIENT_SECRET: 'xxxx'
            DRONE_GITEA_SERVER: 'https://git.mypublicdomain.org'
            DRONE_GIT_ALWAYS_AUTH: 'true'
            DRONE_RPC_SECRET: 'xxxx'
            DRONE_SERVER_HOST: 'drone.mypublicdomain.org'
            DRONE_SERVER_PROTO: 'https'
    runner:
        image: drone/drone-runner-docker:1
        expose:
            - 3000

        volumes:
            - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock

        environment:
            DRONE_RPC_HOST: 'drone_drone_1'
            DRONE_RPC_SECRET: 'xxxx'
            DRONE_SERVER_PROTO: 'http'

(sorry I am not quite sure of what is relevant)

Also I would happily give some drone command output if you can tell me how to access this command in a docker setup…

[bradrydzewski]

Did you create a secret named gitea_token in your repository settings screen?

This below thread provides a list of possible root causes, as well as a list of 6 items that one must provide in order to receive support related to secrets.

Problems with Secrets

Use this guide to troubleshoot issues with secrets. Environment Escaping The most common root cause for this problem is when you use ${VARIALBE} syntax in your yaml file. Remember that Drone emulates bash substitution and attempts to substitute values in ${VARIALBE} format before the yaml configuration file is parsed. To prevent a variable from being substituted, you should escape the variable, as show below: kind: pipeline name: default steps: - name: test image: alpine environment…

[Lattay (Théo Cavignac)]

Oh no ! I did not get that actually ! I though from_secret was a way to use the same secret as in DRONE_GITEA_CLIENT_SECRET.
Ok, it’s probably the problem, I’ll get that fixed.