Notebook Runner Action

This action automatically runs your Notebooks in VS Code to check for errors, so that you don't have to.

If you register this action on a pull request, it will notify you in case of any errors (i.e. Notebooks with a failed code cell) with the error details:

It also uploads the executed Notebooks themselves (notebooks.zip) as artifacts to the Actions summary:

In some cases, further inspection on what went wrong in a Notebook might be necessary. Here, it can be of great value to unpack the above artifacts and taking a close look at the Notebook by opening it in your local VS Code Editor:

Requirements

This action is a composite action that requires an image which includes xvfb.

The only required inputs are a string of notebook-files to test.

Warning

This action does not check the contents of the input notebooks. It is recommended to only run notebooks from trusted sources.

Name	Description	Required	Default
notebook-files	Notebooks to be tested, separated by spaces	✓
notebook-file-ext	Notebook file extension		capnb
notebook-vscode-ext	VS Code Notebook extension to install		SAPSE.vscode-cds
timeout	Mocha timeout for VS Code tests		120000
vscode-version	VS Code version to use		stable
artifacts-on-success	Upload artifacts on success		false
artifacts-kind	Copy folder to be uploaded as artifacts		file

Example usage

Below is an example which shows how to use this action to test 2 sample CAP Notebooks, which you can also find in this repository under the _notebooks directory:

container:
  # Docker image containing xvfb
  image: sitespeedio/sitespeed.io

steps:
- name: Install CAP's cds-dk
  run: |
    npm i -g @sap/cds-dk

- name: Test CAP Notebooks
  uses: mnkiefer/notebook-runner@main
    with:
      notebook-files: "_notebooks/hello-world_broken.capnb _notebooks/hello-world_node.capnb"