.github/workflows/01-make-dist.yml: PoC with LouisBrunner/checks-action to change the action/check entry itself (as alternative to PR/commit comments) [networkupstools#1400]

Signed-off-by: Jim Klimov <jimklimov+nut@gmail.com>

Author: jimklimov

.github/workflows/01-make-dist.yml

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ on:
     # Allow manually running the action, e.g. if disabled after some quietness in the source
 
 permissions:
+  checks: write
   contents: write
   issues: write
   pull-requests: write
@@ -43,6 +44,47 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
 
     steps:
+    # PoC, see https://github.com/LouisBrunner/checks-action
+    # and https://powgs.freetls.fastly.net/mirror/misskey/-/blob/develop/.github/workflows/pr-preview-deploy.yml
+    # and e.g. https://api.github.com/repos/networkupstools/nut/commits/973fb587ebcf904bcfff869c3577e91cbb03e708/check-runs
+    - uses: actions/github-script@v6.3.3
+      id: job-check-id
+      env:
+        ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
+        job: "Make Dist and Docs Tarballs"
+        ### This gives "make-dist-tarballs":
+        job_id: ${{ github.job }}
+        run_id: ${{ github.run_id }}
+      with:
+        github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        result-encoding: string
+        script: |
+          const ref = process.env.ref;
+          const { data: checks } = await github.rest.checks.listForRef({
+            ...context.repo,
+            ref
+          });
+
+          const check = checks.check_runs.filter(c => c.name === process.env.job);
+
+          return check[0].id;
+
+
+    - name: "GHA-01: Change this GH Check report"
+      uses: LouisBrunner/checks-action@v2.0.0
+      if: always()
+      #continue-on-error: true
+      env:
+        check_id: ${{ steps.job-check-id.outputs.result }}
+      with:
+        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        check_id: ${{ env.check_id }}
+        #check_id: ${{ github.run_id }}
+        #name: "GHA-01: Make dist and docs tarballs, see workflow page for links"
+        status: "in_progress"
+        details_url: http://localhost
+        output: '{ "text_description": "Dist and Docs tarballs will be linked here after the `make dist` job completes", "summary": "in_progress"}'
+
     # Post early so this would be about the top comment in the PR trail
     # (easy to see, contents replaced later)
     - name: "GHA-01: Make dist and docs tarballs - report download URL (placeholder) as a first-ever PR comment"