fix secrets stored in JSON format

src/action.test.js

@@ -220,6 +220,38 @@ describe('exportSecrets', () => {
         expect(core.setOutput).toBeCalledWith('key', '1');
     });
 
+    it('json secret retrieval', async () => {
+        const jsonString = '{"x":1,"y":2}';
+
+        mockInput('test key');
+        mockVaultData({
+            key: jsonString,
+        });
+
+        await exportSecrets();
+
+        expect(core.exportVariable).toBeCalledWith('KEY', jsonString);
+        expect(core.setOutput).toBeCalledWith('key', jsonString);
+    });
+
+    it('multi-line json secret retrieval', async () => {
+        const jsonString = `
+            {
+                "x":1,
+                "y":"bar"
+            }
+        `;
+        mockInput('test key');
+        mockVaultData({
+            key: jsonString,
+        });
+
+        await exportSecrets();
+
+        expect(core.exportVariable).toBeCalledWith('KEY', jsonString);
+        expect(core.setOutput).toBeCalledWith('key', jsonString);
+    });
+
     it('intl secret retrieval', async () => {
         mockInput('测试 测试');
         mockVaultData({

src/retries.test.js

@@ -66,4 +66,4 @@ describe('exportSecrets retries', () => {
             done();
         });
     });
-});
+});

src/secrets.js

@@ -72,7 +72,21 @@ async function getSecrets(secretRequests, client) {
  */
 async function selectData(data, selector) {
     const ata = jsonata(selector);
-    let result = JSON.stringify(await ata.evaluate(data));
+    let d = await ata.evaluate(data);
+
+    // If we have a Javascript Object, then this data was stored in Vault as
+    // pure JSON (not a JSON string)
+    const storedAsJSONData = isObject(d);
+
+    if (isJSONString(d)) {
+        // If we already have a JSON string we will not "stringify" it yet so
+        // that we don't end up calling JSON.parse. This would break the
+        // secrets that are stored as pure JSON. See: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-action/issues/194
+        result = d;
+    } else {
+        result = JSON.stringify(d);
+    }
+
     // Compat for custom engines
     if (!result && ((ata.ast().type === "path" && ata.ast()['steps'].length === 1) || ata.ast().type === "string") && selector !== 'data' && 'data' in data) {
         result = JSON.stringify(await jsonata(`data.${selector}`).evaluate(data));
@@ -81,12 +95,57 @@ async function selectData(data, selector) {
     }
 
     if (result.startsWith(`"`)) {
-        result = JSON.parse(result);
+        // we need to strip the beginning and ending quotes otherwise it will
+        // always successfully parse as a JSON string
+        result = result.substring(1, result.length - 1);
+        if (!isJSONString(result)) {
+            // add the quotes back so we can parse it into a Javascript object
+            // to allow support for multi-line secrets. See https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-action/issues/160
+            result = `"${result}"`
+            result = JSON.parse(result);
+        }
+    } else if (isJSONString(result)) {
+        if (storedAsJSONData) {
+            // Support secrets stored in Vault as pure JSON.
+            // See https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-action/issues/194 and https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-action/pull/173
+            result = JSON.stringify(result);
+            result = result.substring(1, result.length - 1);
+        } else {
+            // Support secrets stored in Vault as JSON Strings
+            result = JSON.stringify(result);
+            result = JSON.parse(result);
+        }
     }
     return result;
 }
 
+/**
+ * isOjbect returns true if target is a Javascript object
+ * @param {Type} target
+ */
+function isObject(target) {
+    return typeof target === 'object' && target !== null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * isJSONString returns true if target parses as a valid JSON string
+ * @param {Type} target
+ */
+function isJSONString(target) {
+    if (typeof target !== "string"){
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    try {
+        let o = JSON.parse(target);
+    } catch (e) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    return true;
+}
+
 module.exports = {
     getSecrets,
     selectData
-}
+}