How to update release details using github action when publishing release?

Question

I want my github action to update the name of a release when it is published using oktokit.rest.repos.updateRelease

Apparently updateRelease requires the release_id. Is there some context variable that contains the release_id during this release publish process? Or do I first need to get a reference to the release using getReleaseByTag instead to get the ID? Maybe getReleaseByTag won't even work until after the release is first published?

update.yaml:

name: update release name
on:
  release:
    types: [published]
jobs:
  update-release-name:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
  - uses: actions/github-script@v6
    with:
      script: |
        github.rest.repos.updateRelease({
          owner: context.repo.owner,
          repo: context.repo.repo,
          release_id: ?????????    <-- NEED RELEASE ID         
          name: 'Some New Name'
        })  

Answer 1

You can grab the github release_id by storing it in an environmental variable, and then grabbing the variable in the script for easy access like so:

name: update release name
on:
  release:
    types: [published]
jobs:
  update-release-name:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
  - uses: actions/github-script@v6
    env:
      RELEASE_ID: ${{ github.event.release.id }}

    with:
      script: |
        const { RELEASE_ID } = process.env
        
        octokit.rest.repos.updateRelease({
          owner: context.repo.owner,
          repo: context.repo.repo,
          release_id: `${RELEASE_ID}`,
          name: 'Some New Name'
        })