How to set multiple working directories, possibly dynamically

[nicopoore]

Hey! I'm wondering if it's possible, using this action, to have a monorepo with multiple projects, and running this action on a PR for each project that was modified within that branch.

I'm using Moonrepo to run my CI tasks (which include the coverage tasks), which has an --affected flag to only run tests on affected projects, so I guess it's a multi layered question:

• Is there a way to set multiple working-directory within the same action?
• If so, is there a way to make it ignore missing coverage.json files instead of failing the action? Considering some of the projects won't have had tests run.
• If not, would the only way to run this be to get the affected directories (maybe from a matrix), and then run this action once per each affected project, setting the working-directory dynamically?

Thanks in advance!

[davelosert]

Hey @nicopoore,

thank you for opening this issue. I haven't build in any native support for mono-repos in the style you are creating.

So yes, I guess the best option right now would be to have a matrix and then specify the working-directory (and potentially the name) property for each individually.

However, I would also be more than happy to review / accept a PR that implements this functionality more easily, if you (or someone else) wants to put in the work 🙂.

Unfortunately, I myself am very short on time right now, so I can't tackle it for the foreseeable future.

[nicopoore]

Hey @davelosert! Thanks for the quick reply.

Sounds reasonable - although I realize now that my second question applied in either case, so it still remains - if I went the "one workflow run per project" route, is there a way to make the action not fail when it doesn't find a specific coverage file? Perhaps a flag that just skips the reporting if there's no coverage to report on.

As for the PR, I'll write it down on my to-do list, might tackle it if I have some spare time.