reusable-docs-lint.yml

# Documentation Style Guide Lint
# Uses Vale to lint documentation against the Documentation Style Guide
# Current POC uses the Google style guide as a base set of rules
# See .vale.ini for the current set of rules

name: "Documentation Style Guide Check"

on:
  workflow_call:
    inputs:
      files:
        description: 'The files to lint'
        default: '.'
        type: string
      vale-config-file:
        description: 'The vale ini file to use'
        default: './lint/vale/.vale.ini'
        type: string
      use-default-rules:
        description: 'Use default rules'
        default: true
        type: boolean
      vale-fail-on-error:
        description: 'Report vale errors as a failure'
        default: false
        type: boolean
      reporter:
        description: 'Where action messages are reported'
        type: string
        default: 'github-pr-check'
      separator:
        description: 'Delimiter for input files or folders'
        type: string
        default: ''
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      files:
        description: 'The files to lint'
        default: '.'
        type: string
      vale-config-file:
        description: 'The vale ini file to use'
        default: './lint/vale/.vale.ini'
        type: string
      use-default-rules:
        description: 'Use default rules'
        default: true
        type: boolean
      vale-fail-on-error:
        description: 'Report vale errors as a failure'
        default: false
        type: boolean
      reporter:
        description: 'Where action messages are reported'
        type: string
        default: 'github-pr-check'
      separator:
        description: 'Delimiter for input files or folders'
        type: string
        default: ''

jobs:

  lint:
    name: Lint with Vale
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: ${{ inputs.files != '[]' }}
    steps:

      # Checkout the repo
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      # Fetch the default vale config and styles
      # Checkout to ./lint
      - name: download default rules
        if: ${{ inputs.use-default-rules }}
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          repository: neo4j/docs-tools
          ref: dev
          path: lint
          sparse-checkout: |
            vale
          sparse-checkout-cone-mode: false

      - id: list-files
        run: ls -aR 

      # Run Vale
      - uses: errata-ai/vale-action@reviewdog
        with:
          files: ${{ inputs.files }}
          reporter: ${{ inputs.reporter }}
          fail_on_error: ${{ inputs.vale-fail-on-error }}
          separator: ${{ inputs.separator }}
          vale_flags: "--config=${{ inputs.vale-config-file }}"
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}