setup-rust-toolchain/action.yml

name: Setup Rust Toolchain for GitHub CI
description: |
  Setup specific Rust versions with caching pre-configured.
  It provides problem matchers for cargo and rustfmt issues.  

branding:
  icon: "play"
  color: "gray-dark"

# Add option to install directly from rust-toolchain file
# Blocked on rustup support: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues/2686
#
# The action is heavily inspired by https://github.com/dtolnay/rust-toolchain
inputs:
  toolchain:
    description: "Rust toolchain specification -- see https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/concepts/toolchains.html#toolchain-specification"
    required: false
    default: "stable"
  target:
    description: "Target triple to install for this toolchain"
    required: false
  components:
    description: "Comma-separated list of components to be additionally installed"
    required: false
  cache:
    description: "Automatically configure Rust cache"
    required: false
    default: "true"

outputs:
  rustc-version:
    description: "Version as reported by `rustc --version`"
    value: ${{steps.versions.outputs.rustc-version}}
  cargo-version:
    description: "Version as reported by `cargo --version`"
    value: ${{steps.versions.outputs.cargo-version}}
  rustup-version:
    description: "Version as reported by `rustup --version`"
    value: ${{steps.versions.outputs.rustup-version}}
  cachekey:
    description: A short hash of the rustc version, appropriate for use as a cache key. "20220627a831"
    value: ${{steps.versions.outputs.cachekey}}

runs:
  using: composite
  steps:
    # The later code uses "newer" bash features, which are not available in the ancient bash 3 (from 2014) of macOS
    - name: Unbork mac
      if: runner.os == 'macOS'
      run: |
        brew install bash        
      shell: bash

    - id: flags
      run: |
        : construct rustup command line
        echo "targets=$(for t in ${targets//,/ }; do echo -n ' --target' $t; done)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
        echo "components=$(for c in ${components//,/ }; do echo -n ' --component' $c; done)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
        echo "downgrade=${{inputs.toolchain == 'nightly' && inputs.components && ' --allow-downgrade' || ''}}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT        
      env:
        targets: ${{inputs.target}}
        components: ${{inputs.components}}
      shell: bash
    # The environment variables always need to be set before the caching action
    - name: "Setting Environment Variables"
      run: |
        if [[ ! -v CARGO_INCREMENTAL ]]; then
          echo "CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        fi
        if [[ ! -v CARGO_PROFILE_DEV_DEBUG ]]; then
          echo "CARGO_PROFILE_DEV_DEBUG=0" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        fi
        if [[ ! -v CARGO_TERM_COLOR ]]; then
          echo "CARGO_TERM_COLOR=always" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        fi
        if [[ ! -v RUST_BACKTRACE ]]; then
          echo "RUST_BACKTRACE=short" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        fi
        if [[ ! -v RUSTFLAGS ]]; then
          echo "RUSTFLAGS=-D warnings" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        fi
        # Enable faster sparse index on nightly
        # The value is ignored on stable and causes no problems
        # https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/call-for-testing-cargo-sparse-registry/16862
        if [[ ! -v CARGO_UNSTABLE_SPARSE_REGISTRY ]]; then
          echo "CARGO_UNSTABLE_SPARSE_REGISTRY=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        fi
        if [[ ! -v CARGO_REGISTRIES_CRATES_IO_PROTOCOL ]]; then
          echo "CARGO_REGISTRIES_CRATES_IO_PROTOCOL=sparse" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        fi        
      shell: bash
    - name: "Install Rust Problem Matcher"
      run: echo "::add-matcher::${{ github.action_path }}/rust.json"
      shell: bash

    - name: Install rustup, if needed
      run: |
        if ! command -v rustup &> /dev/null ; then
          curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 --retry 10 --retry-connrefused -fsSL "https://sh.rustup.rs" | sh -s -- --default-toolchain none -y
          echo "${CARGO_HOME:-$HOME/.cargo}/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
        fi        
      if: runner.os != 'Windows'
      shell: bash
    - name: rustup toolchain install ${{inputs.toolchain}}
      run: |
        if [[ -f "rust-toolchain" || -f "rust-toolchain.toml" ]]
        then
          # Install the toolchain as specified in the file
          # Might break at some point: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues/1397
          rustup show
        else
          rustup toolchain install ${{inputs.toolchain}}${{steps.flags.outputs.targets}}${{steps.flags.outputs.components}} --profile minimal${{steps.flags.outputs.downgrade}} --no-self-update
          rustup default ${{inputs.toolchain}}
        fi        
      shell: bash

    - name: Print installed versions
      id: versions
      run: |
        echo "rustc-version=$(rustc --version)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
        rustc --version --verbose
        echo "cargo-version=$(cargo --version)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
        cargo --version --verbose
        echo "rustup-version=$(rustup --version)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
        rustup --version

        DATE=$(rustc --version --verbose | sed -ne 's/^commit-date: \(20[0-9][0-9]\)-\([01][0-9]\)-\([0-3][0-9]\)$/\1\2\3/p')
        HASH=$(rustc --version --verbose | sed -ne 's/^commit-hash: //p')
        echo "cachekey=$(echo $DATE$HASH | head -c12)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT        
      shell: bash

    - name: "Downgrade registry access protocol when needed"
      run: |
        # Not all versions support setting CARGO_REGISTRIES_CRATES_IO_PROTOCOL
        # On versions 1.66, 1.67, and 1.68.0-nightly the value "sparse" is still unstable.
        # https://github.com/dtolnay/rust-toolchain/pull/69#discussion_r1107268108
        # If we detect an incompatible value, set it to "git" which is always supported.
        if [[ "${{steps.versions.outputs.rustc-version}}" =~ ^rustc\ (1\.6[67]\.|1\.68\.0-nightly) && "${CARGO_REGISTRIES_CRATES_IO_PROTOCOL}" == "sparse" ]]; then
          echo "Downgrade cargo registry protocol to git"
          echo "CARGO_REGISTRIES_CRATES_IO_PROTOCOL=git" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        fi        
      shell: bash

    - name: "Setup Rust Caching"
      if: inputs.cache == 'true'
      uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2