Avoid having to do your own checkout in user workflows

[jspaaks]

so instead of

        - name: checkout
          uses: actions/checkout@v2      
        - name: Create a draft deposition in a new collection
          env:
            ZENODO_SANDBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ZENODO_SANDBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN }}        
          uses: zenodraft/action@0.7.0

it would be better to have

        - name: Create a draft deposition in a new collection
          env:
            ZENODO_SANDBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ZENODO_SANDBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN }}        
          uses: zenodraft/action@0.7.0

[kaat0]

Hi

I just want to submit a new release inside an artifact with filenames from a previous job. the checkout does not seem necessary to me.

- uses: actions/download-artifact@v3

- name: "uploading to zenodo sandbox"
  env:
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    ZENODO_SANDBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ZENODO_SANDBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
  uses: zenodraft/action@0.10.0
  with:
    filenames: artifact/release.zip

[jspaaks]

Thanks for the feedback. Just to clarify, the code snippet you posted works, right? Without doing the checkout I mean. Although you may need to fiddle a bit with the path and/or name properties of download-artifact.

[kaat0]

No, it does not work. It will throw an error for missing some git (I do not remember the exact error, but you will probably know which one!)
I do the checkout anyway to avoid the error.

My current workaround for the path and name is to mv the file out of the artifact folder.
For documentation purposes:
with the code snippet above, the file name on zenodo will be artifact/release.zip instead of release.zip.
Therefore, I use the following code in my github action:

# download artifact in folder artifact/
- uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
# mv release.zip one level up
- run: |
     mv ./artifact/release.zip ./

Could you consider options like the following?

file_path: artifact/release.zip
file_name: release.zip

My knowledge of typescript/javascript is limited; otherwise, I would try to make a pull request.