Rust clippy-check Action

Clippy lints in your Pull Requests

This GitHub Action executes clippy and posts all lints as annotations for the pushed commit, as in the live example here.

Example workflow

This example is utilizing toolchain Actions to install the most recent nightly clippy version.

on: push
name: Clippy check
jobs:
  clippy_check:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
        with:
            toolchain: nightly
            components: clippy
            override: true
      - uses: actions-rs/clippy-check@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          args: --all-features

With stable clippy

on: push
name: Clippy check
jobs:
  clippy_check:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - run: rustup component add clippy
      - uses: actions-rs/clippy-check@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          args: --all-features

With args-file

name: Clippy check
jobs:
  clippy_check:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
        with:
          components: clippy
          override: true
      - uses: actions-rs/clippy-check@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          args-file: "./clippy_args.txt"

Example file-based args (clippy_args.txt)

# here's a comment
--locked --all-targets --all-features -- 
-D missing_docs
-D unused_extern_crates
-D warnings
# another one
-D clippy::complexity

Inputs

Name	Required	Description	Type	Default
token	✓	GitHub secret token, usually a ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}	string
toolchain		Rust toolchain to use; override or system default toolchain will be used if omitted	string
args		Arguments for the cargo clippy command	string
use-cross		Use cross instead of cargo	bool	false
name		Name of the created GitHub check. If running this action multiple times, each run must have a unique name.	string	clippy
args-file		Path to file containing line-delimited arguments for cargo clippy (sh-style comments supported)	string

For extra details about the toolchain, args and use-cross inputs, see cargo Action documentation.

NOTE: only specify one argument source, either args or args-file.

NOTE: if your workflow contains multiple instances of the clippy-check action you will need to give each invocation a unique name, using the name property described above. Check runs must have a unique name, and this prevents a later check run overriding a previous one within the same workflow.

Limitations

Due to token permissions, this Action WILL NOT be able to post clippy annotations for Pull Requests from the forked repositories.

This is a pretty big problem, which can be solved only by Github themselves, see #2 for details.
As a fallback this Action will output all clippy messages into the stdout and fail the result correspondingly.