Download A Release Asset, Build Artifact, Or File In Container Package

This action will download a release asset, a build artifact, or a file within a container package based on its inputs and what it discovers while following a set of rules useful to AntelopeIO projects.

Changelog

• v3: added fail-on-missing-target and wait-for-exact-target-workflow inputs; added downloaded-file output; made token optional; reduces API usage substantially
• v2: renamed ref to target; fixes prereleases behavior

Inputs

owner, repo, and token should be self explanatory and are all required.

file is a required regular expression of which the first file matching it will be downloaded to the current working directory.

target is required and can be either a semver range, a branch name, or commit hash. The action then follows a series of steps to search for a file matching the file regular expression.

• Along with using the optional boolean input prereleases, the action treats target as a semver range and finds the maximum satisfying release given the semver range. If a release is found, then:
  • Find a release asset matching the file regular expression and save it to the current directory. Action is complete if a file was found.
  • If container-package is provided, extract to the current directory the first file matching the file regular expression contained in the first layer of the package at ghcr.io/owner/container-package:release. Action is complete if a file was found.
  • Actions fails if neither of the two steps above succeeded.
• If no releases satisfy the semver range (possibly because it wasn't a valid semver range to begin with), then if artifact-name is provided:
  • Attempt to find a branch named target, and discover its HEAD commit that will be used for the next step. If no branch is found, target is then treated as a commit hash and used for the next step.
  • Find the most recently created (by wallclock time) workflow artifact named artifact-name from a workflow run matching the commit hash discovered in the previous step. Extract the first file matching the file regular expression from the artifact "bucket" to the current directory. Action is complete if a file was found.
  • Action fails if the previous step fails to find a file.

fail-on-missing-target is an optional boolean (defaulted to true) to control whether the action should fail if the file is not found in the case of target being a release, or if artifact-name is not found in the case of target being a branch or ref (which includes the situation where the branch or ref does not exist). Other failures, for example, the file not being found in the artifact-name, are still considered failures even if this is set to false.

wait-for-exact-target is an optional boolean (defaulted to false) that controls behavior when target is a branch or commit and any workflow has not completed at the given target. If false, the action will then look at the parent commit's workflows and use artifacts from them (and if that commit's workflows haven't completed, its parent, and so on). If true, the action will wait indefinitely for all workflows to complete (use with care!).

Outputs

downloaded-file is the filename of the downloaded file, or an empty string if an error occurred.

Examples

This will download the latest released cdt debian binary for x86_64, inclusive of prereleases (such as v3.0.0-rc2)

    - name: Download Latest cdt
        uses: AntelopeIO/asset-artifact-download-action@v3
        with:
          owner: AntelopeIO
          repo: cdt
          file: 'cdt_.*amd64.deb'
          target: '*'
          prereleases: true

This will download the latest non-prerelease 3.x.x leap-dev package. But since the leap-dev package is not part of the released assets, it needs to extract it from the experimental-binaries container image.

    - name: Download 3.x leap dev package
        uses: AntelopeIO/asset-artifact-download-action@v3
        with:
          owner: AntelopeIO
          repo: leap
          file: 'leap-dev.*x86_64.deb'
          target: '3.x'
          container-package: experimental-binaries

In this case, a leap-dev is needed from the new_host_functions branch. The leap-dev.deb file needs to be found in the leap-dev-ubuntu20-amd64 artifact bucket.

    - name: Download leap dev package from branch
        uses: AntelopeIO/asset-artifact-download-action@v3
        with:
          owner: AntelopeIO
          repo: leap
          file: 'leap-dev.*x86_64.deb'
          target: new_host_functions
          artifact-name: leap-dev-ubuntu20-amd64

A more complex job which tries to fetch a leap-dev from a juiceup branch but has a fallback in case no leap-dev-ubuntu20-amd64 artifact is found.

      - id: getit
        uses: AntelopeIO/asset-artifact-download-action@v3
        with:
          owner: AntelopeIO
          repo: leap
          file: 'leap-dev.*amd64.deb'
          target: juiceup
          artifact-name: leap-dev-ubuntu20-amd64
          fail-on-missing-target: false
      - if: steps.getit.outputs.downloaded-file != ''
        run: echo downloaded ${{steps.getit.outputs.downloaded-file}}
      - if: steps.getit.outputs.downloaded-file == ''
        run: echo I need to do something else...

Rebuilding dist

ncc build main.mjs --license licenses.txt