feat: add json output counterparts for existing filename outputs

Author: AceFire6

README.md

@@ -66,11 +66,14 @@ any-matches:
 
 # one set of outputs for each entry in change-map
 <change-map.0.0>: '<file_changed1> <file_changed2> ...'
+# Returns a json array of the changes that can be used with fromJSON in the workflow
+<change-map.0.0>-json: '["<file_changed1>", "<file_changed2>", ...]'
 # Value set to make boolean checks simpler - 'true' or 'false'
 # 'false' if there were no changes found
 any-<change-map.0.0>: 'true'
 # If separate deletes key is true
 deleted-<change-map.0.0>: '<file_deleted1> <file_deleted2> ...'
+deleted-<change-map.0.0>-json: '<file_deleted1> <file_deleted2> ...'
 ```
 
 eg. Referring back to the inputs example of a Python project.

__tests__/main.test.ts

@@ -5,8 +5,12 @@ import process from 'node:process';
 import tmp from 'tmp';
 import { afterAll, beforeAll, describe, expect, test, vi } from 'vitest';
 
+function escapeRegex(string: string): string {
+    return string.replaceAll(/[/\-\\^$*+?.()|[\]{}]/g, String.raw`\$&`);
+}
+
 function regexOutput(fieldName: string, value: string): RegExp {
-    return new RegExp(`${fieldName}<<(?<delim>ghadelimiter_.+)\\n${value}\\n\\k<delim>`);
+    return new RegExp(`${fieldName}<<(?<delim>ghadelimiter_.+)\\n${escapeRegex(value)}\\n\\k<delim>`);
 }
 
 describe('main action', () => {
@@ -70,18 +74,23 @@ describe('main action', () => {
 
         const expectedPngOutput = [
             regexOutput('deleted-png', ''),
+            regexOutput('deleted-png-json', JSON.stringify([])),
             regexOutput('png', 'added_img.png changed_img.png'),
+            regexOutput('png-json', JSON.stringify(['added_img.png', 'changed_img.png'])),
             regexOutput('any-png', 'true'),
         ];
 
         const expectedTxtOutput = [
             regexOutput('deleted-txt', 'deleted_text.txt'),
+            regexOutput('deleted-txt-json', JSON.stringify(['deleted_text.txt'])),
             regexOutput('txt', 'added_text.txt changed_text.txt'),
+            regexOutput('txt-json', JSON.stringify(['added_text.txt', 'changed_text.txt'])),
             regexOutput('any-txt', 'true'),
         ];
 
         const expectedMissingOutput = [
             regexOutput('missing', ''),
+            regexOutput('missing-json', JSON.stringify([])),
             regexOutput('any-missing', 'false'),
             regexOutput('any-matches', 'true'),
         ];

dist/index.js

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "file-changes",
-  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "version": "1.1.0",
   "private": true,
   "description": "A customisable filter that uses git to get changed files based on rules and sets them to outputs",
   "keywords": [

dist/index.js.map

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ export async function run(): Promise<void> {
             if (separateDeleted) {
                 // If we must separate deleted, we do
                 core.setOutput(`deleted-${label}`, deletedFiles.join(' '));
+                core.setOutput(`deleted-${label}-json`, deletedFiles);
             } else {
                 // If we don't need to separate deleted we add them to
                 // the existing group of ADDED & CHANGED
@@ -56,6 +57,8 @@ export async function run(): Promise<void> {
 
             // Set the plain output
             core.setOutput(label, existingFileChanges.join(' '));
+            // Set the JSON output - this should result in a JSON array
+            core.setOutput(`${label}-json`, existingFileChanges);
             // Set the boolean flag to indicate any changes were found for this label
             core.setOutput(`any-${label}`, globChanges);
         }