feature: add preferGlobal option (#48)

* fix: paths method expect an array

The default return happened to work and resolve to CWD.

* try ls

* ls in place of

* build

* fix: point execa directly at tauri bin
fixes command not found error when using linked tauri.js

* add a preferGlobal option

* Create add-preferGlobal-option.md

Co-authored-by: Noah Klayman <noahklayman@gmail.com>

.changes/add-preferGlobal-option.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"action": patch
+---
+
+Add option to elect using an existing globally installed version of Tauri.

action.yml

@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ inputs:
     description: 'whether to include a debug build or not'
   npmScript:
     description: 'the package.json script to run to build the Tauri app'
+  preferGlobal:
+    description: 'set this to true to use a globally installed tauri instead'
 outputs:
   releaseId:
     description: 'The ID of the created release'

dist/index.js

@@ -10687,7 +10687,10 @@ function execCommand(command, { cwd }) {
 function buildProject(root, debug, { configPath, distPath, iconPath, npmScript }) {
     return __awaiter(this, void 0, void 0, function* () {
         return new Promise(resolve => {
-            if (hasTauriDependency(root)) {
+            if (core.getInput('preferGlobal') === "true") {
+                resolve('tauri');
+            }
+            else if (hasTauriDependency(root)) {
                 if (npmScript) {
                     resolve(usesYarn(root) ? `yarn ${npmScript}` : `npm run ${npmScript}`);
                 }

dist/main.js

@@ -71,7 +71,10 @@ function execCommand(command, { cwd }) {
 function buildProject(root, debug, { configPath, distPath, iconPath, npmScript }) {
     return __awaiter(this, void 0, void 0, function* () {
         return new Promise(resolve => {
-            if (hasTauriDependency(root)) {
+            if (core.getInput('preferGlobal') === "true") {
+                resolve('tauri');
+            }
+            else if (hasTauriDependency(root)) {
                 if (npmScript) {
                     resolve(usesYarn(root) ? `yarn ${npmScript}` : `npm run ${npmScript}`);
                 }

src/main.ts

@@ -73,7 +73,9 @@ async function buildProject(
   {configPath, distPath, iconPath, npmScript}: BuildOptions
 ): Promise<string[]> {
   return new Promise<string>(resolve => {
-    if (hasTauriDependency(root)) {
+    if (core.getInput('preferGlobal') === "true") {
+      resolve('tauri')
+    } else if (hasTauriDependency(root)) {
       if (npmScript) {
         resolve(usesYarn(root) ? `yarn ${npmScript}` : `npm run ${npmScript}`)
       } else {
@@ -296,4 +298,4 @@ async function run(): Promise<void> {
   }
 }
 
-run()
+run()