add parse for multiple dirs

Author: atrisovic

README.md

@@ -60,6 +60,21 @@ steps:
       GITHUB_DIR: data
 ```
 
+You can upload multiple subdirectories (only) by listing them as `GITHUB_DIR` in the following format:
+
+```
+steps:
+  - name: Send repo to Dataverse 
+    uses: IQSS/dataverse-uploader@v1.2
+    with:
+      DATAVERSE_TOKEN: ${{secrets.DATAVERSE_TOKEN}}
+      DATAVERSE_SERVER: https://demo.dataverse.org
+      DATAVERSE_DATASET_DOI: doi:10.70122/FK2/LVUA
+      GITHUB_DIR: |
+        data
+        plots 
+```
+
 By default, the action will sync the GitHub repository and the Dataverse dataset, meaning that it will
 delete the Dataverse content before uploading the content from GitHub. If you don't want the action to 
 delete your dataset before upload (i.e., if you already have a Dataverse `DRAFT` dataset), 
@@ -104,6 +119,10 @@ is triggered with every `push` to the GitHub repository, it will automatically u
 Dataverse. You specify the action triggers in the workflow (`.yml`) file, and in this case, it would 
 contain `on: push` line to execute the action on every push to the repository.
 
+> Will the action work with dataset Handles as persistent identifiers (PIDs) instead of DOIs?
+
+Yes, the action uses Dataverse API that supports both DOIs and Handles for retrieving and uploading data.
+
 ## Related projects
 
 Check out the following related projects:

dataverse.py

@@ -71,27 +71,33 @@ def check_dataset_lock(num):
                 delete_api + str(fileid), \
                 auth = (token  , ""))
 
-    # the following adds all files from the repository to Dataverse
-    path = join('repo',args.dir) if args.dir else 'repo'
+    # check if there is a list of dirs to upload 
+    paths = ['repo']
+    if args.dir:
+        dirs = args.dir.strip().replace(",", " ")
+        dirs = dirs.split()
+        paths = [join('repo', d) for d in dirs]
 
-    for root, subdirs, files in walk(path):
-        if '.git' in subdirs:
-            subdirs.remove('.git')
-        if '.github' in subdirs:
-            subdirs.remove('.github')
-        for f in files:
-            df = Datafile()
-            df.set({
-                "pid" : args.doi,
-                "filename" : f,
-                "directoryLabel": root[5:],
-                "description" : \
-                  "Uploaded with GitHub Action from {}.".format(
-                    args.repo),
-                })
-            resp = api.upload_datafile(
-                args.doi, join(root,f), df.json())
-            check_dataset_lock(5)
+    # the following adds all files from the repository to Dataverse
+    for path in paths:
+        for root, subdirs, files in walk(path):
+            if '.git' in subdirs:
+                subdirs.remove('.git')
+            if '.github' in subdirs:
+                subdirs.remove('.github')
+            for f in files:
+                df = Datafile()
+                df.set({
+                    "pid" : args.doi,
+                    "filename" : f,
+                    "directoryLabel": root[5:],
+                    "description" : \
+                      "Uploaded with GitHub Action from {}.".format(
+                        args.repo),
+                    })
+                resp = api.upload_datafile(
+                    args.doi, join(root,f), df.json())
+                check_dataset_lock(5)
 
     if args.publish.lower() == 'true':
         # publish updated dataset