I’m using dorny/paths-filter to detect changes. The problem is I want to run a success job for each of the unchanged filters. This way I can enforce waiting for ALL jobs in GitHub’s rules.

So, My workflow looks like this:

jobs:
  # JOB to run change detection
  changes:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    # Required permissions
    permissions:
      pull-requests: read
    outputs:
      # Expose matched filters as job 'packages' output variable
      changed-packages: ${{ steps.filter.outputs.changes }}
    steps:
    - uses: dorny/paths-filter@v3
      id: filter
      with:
        filters: |
          package1: src/package1
          package2: src/package2

  # JOB to build and test each of modified packages
  build:
    needs: changes
    strategy:
      matrix:
        # Parse JSON array containing names of all filters matching any of changed files
        # e.g. ['package1', 'package2'] if both package folders contains changes
        package: ${{ fromJSON(needs.changes.outputs.packages) }}
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - ...
    
  # JOB to approve folders that have NOT changed
  approve:
    needs: changes
    strategy:
      matrix:
        # Parse JSON array containing names of all filters matching any of UNCHANGED files
        package: ${{ fromJSON(????????‍♂️????????‍♂️????????‍♂️????????‍♂️????????‍♂️) }}
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - run: success()????????‍♂️????????‍♂️

I was thinking maybe I can use some combination of setOutput, toJson(), getInput(), maybe jq?

Can I somehow get the object-keys for the “with” property. Unfortunately, when I log the toJson(steps) I get:

  {
    "changes": {
      "outputs": {
        "package1": "false",
        "package1_count": "0",
        "package2": "true",
        "package2_count": "3",
        "changes": "["package2"]"
      },
      "outcome": "success",
      "conclusion": "success"
    }
  }

So, IDK what to do… very annoying. Is there a better library than dorny/paths-filter to accomplish?