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:
          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: gbhand/clippy-check@main
        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
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

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

Limitations

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