Merge pull request #23 from joergbrech/22-working-directory

add working_directory option

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -20,6 +20,16 @@ jobs:
       uses: ./
       with:
         src: tests/src
+  test-with-working-directory:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout repo
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: Run unit tests
+      uses: ./
+      with:
+        working_directory: tests
+        src: src
   test-with-ext-arg:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:

README.md

@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ To use your test data along with Octave packages, you can see [this example conf
 
 ## Arguments
 
+All file and directory paths are interpreted as relative to the working directory, which defaults to the Github Workspace. Optionally, the working-directory can be changed with the argument `working_directory`, see below.
+
 | Input | Description | Usage |
 | - | - | - |
 | `tests` | files or directories containing the MOxUnit test cases | *Optional*, defaults to the root directory of the repo. All subdirectories are added recursively. |
@@ -95,3 +97,4 @@ To use your test data along with Octave packages, you can see [this example conf
 | `cover_html_dir` | store coverage HTML output in directory | *Optional* |
 | `cover_junit_xml_file` | store test results in junit XML file | *Optional* |
 | `cover_json_file` | store coverage report in json file for  processing by coveralls.io | *Optional* |
+| `working_directory` | relative path to a working directory under the github workspace, defaults to `.`. | *Optional* |

action.yml

@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ inputs:
     description: 'list of Octave packages to load (image, io, optim, parallel, statistics, struct)'   
   ext:
     description: 'other directories e.g. external dependencies'
+  working_directory:
+    description: 'relative path to an optional working directory under the github workspace'
 
 runs:
   using: 'docker'
@@ -43,6 +45,7 @@ runs:
     - ${{ inputs.data }}
     - ${{ inputs.pkg }}
     - ${{ inputs.ext }}
+    - ${{ inputs.working_directory }}
 
 branding:
   icon: check-circle

entrypoint.sh

@@ -13,6 +13,21 @@ COVER_JSON_FILE=$9
 DATA=$10
 PKG=$11
 EXT=$12
+WDIR=$13
+
+####################
+# Switch directory #
+####################
+
+
+if [ -z $WDIR ] ; then
+  WDIR="."
+fi
+cd $WDIR
+
+###########################
+# Prepare Octave commands #
+###########################
 
 # Create an Octave expression to set up the environment
 SETUP=""
@@ -70,9 +85,9 @@ else
   SETUP="$SETUP $PKG_LIST pkg list;"
 fi
 
-###########################
+##################
 # Run unit tests #
-###########################
+##################
 
 # prepare test case argument
 if [ -z $TESTS ] ; then