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A `workflow_dispatch` job that has `needs:` **and** an `if:` comparing a
boolean
input against a boolean literal never runs — it stays `Blocked` forever
even
though its needs succeed. Minimal repro:
```yaml
on:
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
deploy:
type: boolean
default: true
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps: [{ run: echo build }]
deploy:
needs: build
if: ${{ inputs.deploy == true }} # never true on Gitea
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps: [{ run: echo deploy }]
```
On GitHub this runs; on Gitea `deploy` is stuck. Jobs **without**
`needs` are
unaffected, which makes it look like a matrix/`needs` bug — it isn't.
## Root cause
`workflow_dispatch` stores boolean inputs as the strings
`"true"`/`"false"`
(`ctx.FormBool` → `strconv.FormatBool` in the web path, plain strings in
the API
path). Since #37478 (shipped in **v1.27.0**), `evaluateJobIf` runs
**server-side**
as part of the job-emitter resolver passes. For a `needs`-gated job the
server
therefore evaluates `inputs.deploy == true` with `inputs.deploy` being
the string
`"true"`; comparing a string to a boolean coerces to `NaN == 1` →
`false`, so the
job is never dispatched.
Jobs without `needs` skip this server-side gate and are evaluated by the
runner,
which coerces the string to a real bool — that's why they keep working,
and why
the same input yields opposite results in the two paths.
## Fix
Normalize `type: boolean` dispatch inputs to native JSON booleans in the
shared
`DispatchActionWorkflow` path, so it covers both the web and API entry
points in
one place. The coerced value flows into both the run's `EventPayload`
(read back
by the server-side `if` evaluation and by the runner) and the
creation-time
parse, so all consumers agree.
This matches GitHub, whose `inputs` context "preserves Boolean values as
Booleans
instead of converting them to strings", and mirrors the native JSON
types Gitea
already sends for `workflow_call`. Only booleans are coerced; other
input types
are left untouched, and a value that is already a bool (JSON API
request) passes
through.
Note: this makes dispatch payloads carry native booleans, which the
runner
consumes correctly as of gitea/runner#1087 (it accepts a native bool and
keeps
the string fallback) — the same expectation `workflow_call` already
relies on.
Fixes https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/38466
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