"Context access might be invalid: <outputs>" showed up for 'dorny/paths-filter' GitHub Action

[hwhsu1231]

Describe the bug

I found that the outputs of dorny/paths-filter@v3 cannot be accessed with the following warning messages:

Context access might be invalid: cmake

However, the outputs of tibdex/github-app-token@v2 can be accessed without the above warning messages.

See the screenshots of these two in Screenshots.

For the records, although the warning messages showed up, the outputs of dorny/paths-filter@v3 were printed correctly.

To Reproduce

Copy and paste the following two code snippets:

Click to expand demo of 'paths-filter'

      - name: Filter Changes in the Pull Request
        id: filter
        uses: dorny/paths-filter@v3
        with:
          list-files: 'json'
          filters: |
            cmake:
              - 'cmake/**/*.cmake'
              - 'CMakeLists.txt'
              - 'CMakePresets.json'
            document:
              - 'docs/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md'
              - 'docs/CONTRIBUTING.md'
              - 'docs/MAINTAINING.md'
              - 'CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md'
              - 'README.md'
            workflow:
              - '.github/workflows/*.yml'
              - '.github/workflows/*.yaml'

      - name: Check Outputs of paths-filter
        run: |
          echo "steps.filter.outputs.cmake    = ${{ steps.filter.outputs.cmake }}"
          echo "steps.filter.outputs.document = ${{ steps.filter.outputs.document }}"
          echo "steps.filter.outputs.workflow = ${{ steps.filter.outputs.workflow }}"
          echo "steps.filter.outputs.cmake_count    = ${{ steps.filter.outputs.cmake_count }}"
          echo "steps.filter.outputs.document_count = ${{ steps.filter.outputs.document_count }}"
          echo "steps.filter.outputs.workflow_count = ${{ steps.filter.outputs.workflow_count }}"
          echo "steps.filter.outputs.cmake_files    = ${{ steps.filter.outputs.cmake_files }}"
          echo "steps.filter.outputs.document_files = ${{ steps.filter.outputs.document_files }}"
          echo "steps.filter.outputs.workflow_files = ${{ steps.filter.outputs.workflow_files }}"

Click to expand demo of 'github-app-token'

      - name: Get the GitHub App's Token
        uses: tibdex/github-app-token@v2
        id: ggat
        with:
          app_id: ${{ secrets.APP_ID }}
          private_key: ${{ secrets.APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}

      - name: Checkout to '${{ github.ref }}'
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          ref: ${{ github.ref }}
          token: ${{ steps.ggat.outputs.token }}
          submodules: true

Expected behavior

The warning messages shouldn't show up.

Screenshots

Extension Version

v0.26.2

Additional context

[RedbeanGit]

It looks like the only output defined in the action.yml file of the dorny/paths-filter@v3 action is changes:

outputs:
  changes:
    description: JSON array with names of all filters matching any of changed files

Maybe this action should find another way to generate dynamic outputs.

[PaulRBerg]

I'm not a VSCode expert but I don't think there's any way for any GitHub Actions to dynamically generate outputs. The only solution is to let users of this VSCode extensions to silence warnings:

#222