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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Recursive SARIF file detection from `upload-sarif` sarif_file parameter","articleBody":"I [created a workflow](https://github.com/tlsa/libcyaml/blob/tlsa/codeql/.github/workflows/static-analysis.yaml#L74) that runs Clang scan-build with the `-sarif` parameter, to output SARIF format, and the `-o build/sarif` argument to put the output in the directory `build/sarif`.\r\n\r\nWhen it is run, scan-build puts the actual SARIF files in a sub-directory of the specified output directory.\r\n\r\nThe output from scan-build is:\r\n\r\n```\r\nscan-build: Analysis run complete.\r\nscan-build: Analysis results (sarif files) deposited in '/home/runner/work/libcyaml/libcyaml/build/sarif/2020-09-18-110804-4323-1'\r\n```\r\n\r\nAnd the sarif files are in the randomly named sub-directory:\r\n\r\n```\r\n$ find build/sarif\r\nbuild/sarif\r\nbuild/sarif/2020-09-18-110804-4323-1\r\nbuild/sarif/2020-09-18-110804-4323-1/report-B4xj3N.sarif\r\nbuild/sarif/2020-09-18-110804-4323-1/report-yK7dxl.sarif\r\nbuild/sarif/2020-09-18-110804-4323-1/report-SrmlCl.sarif\r\nbuild/sarif/2020-09-18-110804-4323-1/report-QPrVcF.sarif\r\nbuild/sarif/2020-09-18-110804-4323-1/report-67tbyT.sarif\r\nbuild/sarif/2020-09-18-110804-4323-1/report-OfHm5E.sarif\r\nbuild/sarif/2020-09-18-110804-4323-1/report-T8GZn7.sarif\r\nbuild/sarif/2020-09-18-110804-4323-1/report-NKjLYw.sarif\r\nbuild/sarif/2020-09-18-110804-4323-1/report-z81jQ7.sarif\r\nbuild/sarif/2020-09-18-110804-4323-1/report-bmXRUK.sarif\r\nbuild/sarif/2020-09-18-110804-4323-1/report-6aH1dl.sarif\r\nbuild/sarif/2020-09-18-110804-4323-1/report-iK7eHK.sarif\r\nbuild/sarif/2020-09-18-110804-4323-1/report-vnqcCF.sarif\r\nbuild/sarif/2020-09-18-110804-4323-1/report-aATCA3.sarif\r\n```\r\n\r\nYou can see the CI run for this here: https://github.com/tlsa/libcyaml/runs/1133489433\r\n\r\nAt the moment, with\r\n\r\n```\r\n    - name: upload scan-build\r\n      uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v1\r\n      with:\r\n        sarif_file: build/sarif\r\n```\r\n\r\nI get the following error:\r\n\r\n```\r\n#[error]No SARIF files found to upload in \"build/sarif\".\r\nError: No SARIF files found to upload in \"build/sarif\".\r\n    at Object.upload (/home/runner/work/_actions/github/codeql-action/v1/lib/upload-lib.js:114:19)\r\n    at run (/home/runner/work/_actions/github/codeql-action/v1/lib/upload-sarif-action.js:29:46)\r\n```\r\n\r\nCould the `sarif_file` directory parameter be changed to a recursive search through the directory for SARIF files?","author":{"url":"https://github.com/tlsa","@type":"Person","name":"tlsa"},"datePublished":"2020-09-18T11:22:21.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":8},"url":"https://github.com/220/codeql-action/issues/220"}