Component detection action

This GitHub Action runs the microsoft/component-detection library to automate dependency extraction at build time. It uses a combination of static and dynamic scanning to build a dependency tree and then uploads that to GitHub's dependency graph via the dependency submission API. This gives you more accurate Dependabot alerts, and support for a bunch of additional ecosystems.

Example workflow

name: Component Detection

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:

permissions: 
  id-token: write
  contents: write

jobs:
  dependency-submission:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Component detection 
        uses: jhutchings1/component-detection-action@v0.0.1

Configuration options

Parameter	Description	Example
filePath	The path to the directory containing the environment files to upload. Defaults to Actions working directory.	'.'
directoryExclusionList	Filters out specific directories following a minimatch pattern.	test
detectorArgs	Comma separated list of properties that can affect the detectors execution, like EnableIfDefaultOff that allows a specific detector that is in beta to run, the format for this property is DetectorId=EnableIfDefaultOff, for example Pip=EnableIfDefaultOff.	Pip=EnableIfDefaultOff
dockerImagesToScan	Comma separated list of docker image names or hashes to execute container scanning on	ubuntu:16.04,56bab49eef2ef07505f6a1b0d5bd3a601dfc3c76ad4460f24c91d6fa298369ab
detectorsFilter	A comma separated list with the identifiers of the specific detectors to be used.	Pip, RustCrateDetector

For more information: https://github.com/microsoft/component-detection