Print which release is latest

[rfdonnelly]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Hi. Thanks for sharing this Action. It does exactly what I need.

I'm fetching the "latest" release for my project and it would be nice to know exactly which release was fetched. When debugging a run, it is not always clear which release was the "latest" release at the time of the run.

Describe the solution you'd like

Something like:

 Run robinraju/release-downloader@v1.3
   with:
     repository: rfdonnelly/scma-gcal-sync
     latest: true
     fileName: scma-gcal-sync
     tarBall: false
     zipBall: false
     out-file-path: .
 Fetching latest release for repo rfdonnelly/scma-gcal-sync
 Downloading file: scma-gcal-sync to: /home/runner/work/scma-gcal-sync/scma-gcal-sync
+Downloaded release v1.2.0
 Done: /home/runner/work/scma-gcal-sync/scma-gcal-sync/scma-gcal-sync

Describe alternatives you've considered

I've considered manually printing the version information of the downloaded release (e.g. program --version) but details of how to implement this would be different for every project and it may not match the GitHub release. The GitHub release information is more authoritative.

[robinraju]

To fetch the latest release, I'm using the GH API repos/{repo-name}/releases/latest
I tried with the repo you've specified https://api.github.com/repos/rfdonnelly/scma-gcal-sync/releases/latest
It returns "tag_name": "v2.0.0-rc.3".

In short: it's doable!

[robinraju]

@rfdonnelly I just merged a pr adding the requested change.

It now prints a log message as follows, if latest release is specified

Fetching latest release for repo robinraju/release-downloader-test
Found latest release version: v0.0.1

https://github.com/robinraju/release-downloader/runs/5057810179?check_suite_focus=true

You can test it on your repo using the action from main branch as follows.

- name: Download latest release
  uses: robinraju/release-downloader@main

This will be available in the next version of release-downloader.

[rfdonnelly]

Wow. Brilliant. Thank you!

Works great:

 Fetching latest release for repo rfdonnelly/scma-gcal-sync
+Found latest release version: v2.0.0-rc.3
 Downloading file: scma-gcal-sync to: /home/runner/work/scma-gcal-sync/scma-gcal-sync
 Done: /home/runner/work/scma-gcal-sync/scma-gcal-sync/scma-gcal-sync