How to retrieve file from /home/runner/XXXXX in GitHub Actions

Question

I am trying to build maven project with GitHub Actions, and after the job running, I get the message

Please refer to /home/runner/work/testDemoAPI/testDemoAPI/mymeeave/target/surefire-reports for the individual test results.

Do you know how to retrieve data from /home/runner/work/xxxxx?

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
    - name: Set up JDK 1.8
      uses: actions/setup-java@v1
      with:
        java-version: 1.8
    - name: Build with Maven
      run:  mvn clean test

Answer 1

Upload it as an artifact, afterwards it can be downloaded from the GitHub UI or via the GitHub API:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
    - name: Set up JDK 1.8
      uses: actions/setup-java@v1
      with:
        java-version: 1.8
    - name: Build with Maven
      run:  mvn clean test

    - name: Upload artifact
      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1
      with:
        name: surefire-reports
        path: mymeeave/target/surefire-reports/**

See https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact for documentation.

Answer 2

You can save files to /home/runner and access them in later actions.

An example from my project which:

• Runs tests

• Store logs always and test failed file

• Upload logs as artefact

• Exits if the test was failure

  - name: Run web E2E tests
    run: |
      set +e
      yarn test-e2e
      result=$?
      if [ $result != 0 ]; then touch /home/runner/test-failed-web-e2e; fi
      kubectl logs $(kubectl get pods | grep backend | awk '{print $1}') > /home/runner/logs-backend.txt
      kubectl logs $(kubectl get pods | grep frontend | awk '{print $1}') > /home/runner/logs-frontend.txt
  
  - name: Upload logs
    uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
    with:
      name: logs-all
      path: /home/runner/logs-*.txt
      retention-days: 5
  
  - name: Propagate any E2E test failures
    run: |
      if [ -f /home/runner/test-failed-web-e2e ]; then exit 1; fi