Get directory changed folders and exclude parent folder

[lays147]

Hey all, I'm using this action, and I'm configuring it as follows:

  filesChanged:
    runs-on: small-runner
    outputs:
      files: ${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.all_changed_files }}
    steps:
      - name: Get changed files in the kong--plugins folder
        id: changed-files
        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v42
        with:
          files: kong-plugins/**
          json: true
          escape_json: false
          dir_names: true
          dir_names_exclude_current_dir: true

The output is ["kong-plugins", "kong-plugins/foo"] but I only want the subfolders like ["kong-plugins/foo"]. Already tried path: kong-plugins but the pipeline failed because I think that this var tries to find another git repository based on the docs.
Which config would fit this scenario?

[jackton1]

Hi @lays147 there are a couple of approaches you can take

1. Specify the path input kong-plugins but note the patterns would need to be changed to "**" or can be omitted since you will detect only changed files within the kong-plugins folder.

...
      - name: Get changed files in the kong-plugins folder
        id: changed-files
        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v42
        with:
          path: kong-plugins
          json: true
          escape_json: false
          dir_names: true
          dir_names_exclude_current_dir: true

2. Post-process the output from this action and filter out the kong-plugins folder

...
      - name: Filter out parent directory from output
        id: filter-output
        env:
          ALL_CHANGED_FILES: ${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.all_changed_files }}
        run: |
          # Use jq to filter out the 'kong-plugins' folder, assuming jq is available in your runner environment
          FILTERED_OUTPUT=$(echo $ALL_CHANGED_FILES | jq 'map(select(. != "kong-plugins"))')
          echo "::set-output name=filtered-files::$FILTERED_OUTPUT"

Please provide the log output if you discover any errors with any of the suggested approaches

[lays147]

Well, this post-processing appears to be too much of a problem for a thing that should be simple, I found out that I can exclude inputs in a matrix, so I used this:

  tests:
    permissions:
      contents: read
    environment: staging
    needs: filesChanged
    strategy:
      matrix:
        folders: ${{ fromJson(needs.filesChanged.outputs.files) }}
        exclude:
          - folders: kong-plugins

When using path: kong-plugins the "cwd command" of the action failed saying that the path didn't existed 😞

[jackton1]

@lays147 Okay, can you include the log output with the error you were getting, also for reference here’s a working example

[lays147]

Hey @jackton1 the only log that I've got was this one: