How to run same github actions job multiple times? - gradle

Question

I'm using gradle. I have project like that:
project/
--- sub1/
--- sub2/
I want to have artifact uploaded as 2 differents files (i.e. sub1.jar and sub2.jar separately).
Actually, I'm using this job:
- uses: actions/upload-artifact#v3
with:
name: Artifacts
path: project*/build/libs/*.jar
But the file uploaded is only one file, with sub folder to files.
I tried to run same upload-artifact job, but with different argument. I can't do that.
I don't want to copy/paste the same job, because in the futur I will have multiple sub project, and I don't want to have 50 lines or same code ...
How can I upload my generated files, or run same job multiple times ?

Answer 1

So using a matrix strategy would allow you to do this for a list of inputs.
You can do something like this as job in a workflow which would do the same steps for each value in the matrix.
some-job:
name: Job 1
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
strategy:
matrix:
subdir: [sub1, sub2]
steps:
- name: Create some files
run: echo "test data" > /tmp/${{ matrix.subdir }}/.test.jar
- uses: actions/upload-artifact#v3
with:
name: Artifacts
path: /tmp/${{ matrix.subdir }}/*.jar

Answer 2

It doesn't seems to be possible, so I made my own script. I'm using same code as actions/upload-artifact for the upload itself.
We should run JS script with the required dependency #actions/artifact. So, there is 2 actions to setup node and the dep.
My code is like that:
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v3
- uses: actions/setup-node#v3
with:
node-version: 16
- name: Install NPM package
run: npm install #actions/artifact
- uses: actions/github-script#v6
name: Artifact script
with:
script: CHECK MY SCRIPT BELOW
I'm using this script to upload all files in all sub folder:
let artifact = require('#actions/artifact');
const fs = require('fs');
function getContentFrom(path, check) {
return fs.readdirSync(path).filter(function (file) {
return check == fs.statSync(path+'/'+file).isDirectory();
});
}
function getDirectories(path) {
return getContentFrom(path, true);
}
function getFiles(path) {
return getContentFrom(path, false);
}
const artifactClient = artifact.create();
for(let sub of getDirectories("./")) { // get all folders
console.log("Checking for", sub);
let filesDir = "./" + sub; // if you are using multiples folder
let files = [];
for(let build of getFiles(filesDir)) {
// here you can filter which files to upload
files.push(filesDir + "/" + build);
}
console.log("Uploading", files);
await artifactClient.uploadArtifact(
"Project " + sub,
files,
filesDir,
{ continueOnError: false }
)
}