Setup Bats and Bats libraries

This GitHub Action installs Bats and the four major bats libraries:

• bats-support
• bats-assert
• bats-detik
• bats-file

The action can be also instructed to select which libraries to install.

How to use it

on: [push]

jobs:
   my_test:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     name: Install Bats and bats libs
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
       - name: Setup Bats and bats libs
         uses: bats-core/[email protected]

Libraries Path

For each of the Bats libraries, you can choose to install them in the default location (/usr/lib/bats-<lib-name>) or specify a custom path.

For example, if you want to install bats-support in the ./test/bats-support directory, you can configure it as follows:

# ...
       - name: Setup Bats and Bats libs
         uses: bats-core/[email protected]
         with:
           support-path: ${{ github.workspace }}/test/bats-support

About Caching

The caching mechanism for the bats binary is always available. However, the caching for the bats libraries is dependent on the location of each library path. If a library is located within the $HOME directory, caching is supported. Conversely, if a library is located outside the $HOME directory (which is the default location per each library), caching is not supported. This is due to a known limitation with sudo and the cache action, as detailed in this GitHub issue: actions/toolkit#946.

Inputs

Key	Default	Required	Description
bats-install	true	false	Bats installation, cache supported
bats-version	latest	false	Bats version
support-install	true	false	Bats-support installation
support-version	0.3.0	false	Bats-support version
support-path	/usr/lib/bats-support	false	Bats-support path
support-clean	true	false	Bats-support: clean temp files
assert-install	true	false	Bats-assert installation
assert-version	2.1.0	false	Bats-assert version
assert-path	/usr/lib/bats-assert	false	Bats-assert path
assert-clean	true	false	Bats-assert: clean temp files
detik-install	true	false	Bats-detik installation
detik-version	1.2.1	false	Bats-detik version
detik-path	/usr/lib/bats-detik	false	Bats-detik path
detik-clean	true	false	Bats-detik: clean temp files
file-install	true	false	Bats-file installation
file-version	0.4.0	false	Bats-file version
file-path	/usr/lib/bats-file	false	Bats-file path
file-clean	true	false	Bats-file: clean temp files

Outputs

Key	Description
bats-installed	True/False if bats has been installed
support-installed	True/False if bats-support has been installed
assert-installed	True/False if bats-assert has been installed
detik-installed	True/False if bats-detik has been installed
file-installed	True/False if bats-file has been installed

TODO

• Add more tests

• Add Bats binary

• Add cache for bats binary

• Better Readme

• Remove sudo in case of bats libs installed in $HOME

• Add cache for bats libs