Make the action re-usable within a workflow job

Signed-off-by: tdruez <[email protected]>

Author: tdruez

.github/workflows/multi-runs.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+on: [push]
+
+jobs:
+  multi-runs:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    name: Ensure the action can be executed multiple times
+    steps:
+      - name: Get the action.yml from the current branch
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          sparse-checkout: action.yml
+          sparse-checkout-cone-mode: false
+
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          path: scancode-inputs
+
+      - uses: ./
+        with:
+          project-name: "scan-1"
+          pipelines: "scan_codebase"
+
+      - uses: ./
+        with:
+          project-name: "scan-2"
+          pipelines: "scan_codebase"
+
+      - name: Verify scanpipe and scancode commands availability
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          echo "Checking ScanCode CLI availability..."
+          which scanpipe || { echo "scanpipe not found in PATH"; exit 1; }
+          which scancode || { echo "scancode not found in PATH"; exit 1; }
+          echo "Versions:"
+          scanpipe --version
+          scancode --version

action.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "ScanCode action"
 description: "Run ScanCode.io pipelines in your workflows"
+
 inputs:
   pipelines:
     description: "Names of the pipelines (comma-separated) and in order."
@@ -63,19 +64,23 @@ runs:
       shell: bash
       run: |
         sudo systemctl start postgresql.service
-        sudo -u postgres createuser --no-createrole --no-superuser --login --inherit --createdb ${{ env.SCANCODEIO_DB_USER }}
-        sudo -u postgres psql -c "ALTER USER ${{ env.SCANCODEIO_DB_USER }} WITH encrypted password '${{ env.SCANCODEIO_DB_PASSWORD }}'"
-        sudo -u postgres createdb --owner=scancodeio --encoding=UTF-8 ${{ env.SCANCODEIO_DB_NAME }}
+        sudo -u postgres createuser --no-createrole --no-superuser --login --inherit --createdb ${{ env.SCANCODEIO_DB_USER }} || true
+        sudo -u postgres psql -c "ALTER USER ${{ env.SCANCODEIO_DB_USER }} WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD '${{ env.SCANCODEIO_DB_PASSWORD }}'" || true
+        sudo -u postgres createdb --owner=scancodeio --encoding=UTF-8 ${{ env.SCANCODEIO_DB_NAME }} || true
 
-    - name: Install ScanCode.io
+    - name: Install ScanCode.io (only if not already installed)
       shell: bash
       run: |
-        if [ -z "${{ inputs.scancodeio-repo-branch }}" ]; then
-          echo "Installing the latest ScanCode.io release from PyPI"
-          pip install --upgrade scancodeio
+        if ! command -v scanpipe &> /dev/null; then
+          if [ -z "${{ inputs.scancodeio-repo-branch }}" ]; then
+            echo "Installing the latest ScanCode.io release from PyPI"
+            pip install --upgrade scancodeio
+          else
+            echo "Installing ScanCode.io from the GitHub branch: ${{ inputs.scancodeio-repo-branch }}"
+            pip install git+https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode.io.git@${{ inputs.scancodeio-repo-branch }}
+          fi
         else
-          echo "Installing ScanCode.io from the GitHub branch: ${{ inputs.scancodeio-repo-branch }}"
-          pip install git+https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode.io.git@${{ inputs.scancodeio-repo-branch }}
+          echo "ScanCode.io already installed, skipping installation."
         fi
 
     - name: Run migrations to prepare the database