Download release binary

.github/workflows/test-action.yml

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ jobs:
       continue-on-error: true # TODO for now, we're expecting the program to exit 2 when usage is called
       with:
         args: -h # TODO we might decide to report a valid test event to test infrastructure when it is set up
+        version: "*" # use the latest version
 
     - name: Assert against outputs
       if: ${{ (steps.test-action.outputs.exit-code != 2)  ||  (!contains(steps.test-action.outputs.output, 'report-event')) }}

DEVELOPMENT.md

@@ -7,14 +7,3 @@ The action is written in Typescript at `src/index.ts`, and it uses [`ncc`](https
 
 After changing the source code in `src/index.ts`, you must compile the code to see the changes reflected in the GitHub Action. There is a workflow, `.github/workflows/check-compile.yml`, that will remind you to do this by failing if it finds that the code was not compiled.
 
-### Building the `report-event` binaries
-
-[TODO] This is a provisional process until we automate the release and consumption of the `report-event` binaries
-
-This repo contains a `.goreleaser.yaml` configuration file that is used to build binaries of the `report-event` program for the [combinations of OS and architecture available on public GitHub Actions runners](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/about-github-hosted-runners/about-github-hosted-runners#standard-github-hosted-runners-for-public-repositories). These binaries are a dependency of this Action. To build the binaries:
-
-1. [Install goreleaser](https://goreleaser.com/install/)
-2. Clone the [mac-fc-dso-metrics repo](https://github.com/Enterprise-CMCS/mac-fc-dso-metrics)
-3. In the root directory of that repo, run `goreleaser build --snapshot --clean --config <path-to-.goreleaser.yaml>`. This will generate a `dist` folder with the binaries and some metadata files
-4. Copy the `dist` folder and its contents to this repo
-

action.yml

@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ description: 'Sends event data to the MACBIS DevSecOps Metrics API'
 inputs:
   args:
     description: Arguments to pass to the report-event program. Please see Enterprise-CMCS/mac-fc-dso-metrics/cmd/report-event/README.md for documentation
+  version:
+    description: The version constraint for the report-event program in semantic version syntax. Defaults to the latest version (we recommend pinning to a specific version or range)
+    default: "*"
+  token:
+    description: The GitHub token used to list the (public) releases of report-event. A token is required to avoid the low non-authenticated rate limit. We recommend using the default GITHUB_TOKEN
+    default: ${{ github.token }}
 outputs:
   exit-code:
     description: The exit code of the program