GitHub Action: Run Clippy with reviewdog

This action runs Clippy with reviewdog on pull requests to improve code review experience.

Example usage

name: clippy-action
on: [pull_request]
jobs:
  clippy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
    - uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
      with:
        components: clippy
    - uses: giraffate/clippy-action@v1
      with:
        reporter: 'github-pr-review'
        github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Inputs

github_token

Optional. Default is ${{ github.token }}.

clippy_flags

Optional. clippy flags. (cargo clippy --color never -q --message-format json <clippy_flags>) For example, clippy_flags: -- -Dwarnings.

tool_name

Optional. Tool name to use for reviewdog reporter. Useful when running multiple actions with different config.

level

Optional. Report level for reviewdog [info,warning,error]. It's same as -level flag of reviewdog.

workdir

Optional. Working directory relative to the root directory.

reporter

Optional. Reporter of reviewdog command [github-pr-check,github-pr-review]. It's same as -reporter flag of reviewdog.

github-pr-review

cargo clippy	cargo clippy -- -Dwarnings

github-pr-check

cargo clippy	cargo clippy -- -Dwarnings

filter_mode

Optional. Filtering mode for the reviewdog command [added,diff_context,file,nofilter]. Default is added.

fail_on_error

Optional. Exit code for reviewdog when errors are found [true, false] Default is false.

reviewdog_flags

Optional. Additional reviewdog flags

reviewdog_version

Optional. Install a specific version of reviewdog. By default, the latest version of reviewdog is installed.