action.yml

name: "actions.checkout-action"
description: "Checks out a private action to ./.github/actions/<owner>/<repo> and outputs this local path as 'path'"
inputs:
  repository:
    required: true
    description: "E.g. <owner>/<repo>"
  ssh-key:
    required: true

outputs:
  path:
    description: "The local path of the action to be used for the 'uses: <path>' in your workflow"
    value: ${{ steps.local_path_namer_win.outputs.path }}${{ steps.local_path_namer_unix.outputs.path }}

runs:
  using: "composite"
  steps:

    - name: 'Get local path [WIN]'
      if: runner.os == 'Windows'
      id: local_path_namer_win
      shell: powershell
      # run: echo "::set-output name=path::./.github/actions/${{ inputs.repository }}"
      run: echo "path=./.github/actions/${{ inputs.repository }}" >> $env.GITHUB_OUTPUT

    - name: 'Get local path [UNIX]'
      if: runner.os != 'Windows'
      id: local_path_namer_unix
      shell: bash
      # run: echo "::set-output name=path::./.github/actions/${{ inputs.repository }}"
      run: echo "path=./.github/actions/${{ inputs.repository }}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT

    # - name: Test
    #   if: runner.os == 'Windows'
    #   shell: powershell
    #   run: echo "TTT- '${{ steps.local_path_namer_win.outputs.path }}${{ steps.local_path_namer_unix.outputs.path }}'"

    - name: 'Checkout build action'
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
      with:
        repository: ${{ inputs.repository }}
        path: ${{ steps.local_path_namer_win.outputs.path }}${{ steps.local_path_namer_unix.outputs.path }}
        ssh-key: ${{ inputs.ssh-key }}
        persist-credentials: false