added pipeline for dispatch

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Das <[email protected]>

.github/workflows/falco.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+name: Get and Update Latest Releases
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  workflow_call:
+
+jobs:
+  TBD:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

.github/workflows/get-latest-releases.yml

@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ concurrency:
 jobs:
   get-latest-version:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
+    outputs:
+      is-falco-updated: ${{ steps.check-updates.outputs.FALCO }}
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
@@ -30,3 +31,26 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           go run repo-variable-writer.go
 
+      - name: Dispatch
+        id: check-updates
+        env:
+          file: /tmp/updates.json # generated by go program
+        run: |
+          if jq -e --arg val "falco" '.proj_names | index($val) != null' "$file" > /dev/null; then
+            echo "Element '$value' found in the proj_names array."
+            echo "FALCO=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          else
+            echo "Element 'falco' not found in the proj_names array."
+            echo "FALCO=false" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          fi
+
+
+  falco-proj:
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/falco.yaml
+    if: ${{ needs.check-updates.outputs.is-falco-updated }} == 'true'
+    secrets: inherit
+    with:
+      image_tag: ${{ var.FALCO_VERSION }} # need to check if it gets the updated value
+    # permissions:
+    #   packages: write
+    #   contents: read

scripts/repo-variable-writer.go

@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ type Projects struct {
 }
 
 const (
-	LocProjMeta string = "../projects/project.json"
+	LocProjMeta             string = "../projects/project.json"
+	LocWriteUpdatedProjects string = "/tmp/updates.json"
 )
 
 func toPtr[T any](v T) *T {
@@ -122,7 +123,7 @@ func (obj *GithubVariable) genUrlAndHeaders(proj string) (*string, map[string]st
 		}, nil
 }
 
-func (obj *GithubVariable) Write(proj, value string) error {
+func (obj *GithubVariable) Update(proj, value string) error {
 	url, header, err := obj.genUrlAndHeaders(proj)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -196,7 +197,14 @@ func (obj *GithubVariable) Read(proj string) (*string, error) {
 	return toPtr[string](variableData.VariableValue), nil
 }
 
-func handleProjectsUpdater() {
+func main() {
+
+	type UpdatedProjects struct {
+		ProjNames []string `json:"proj_names"`
+	}
+
+	updatedProjects := UpdatedProjects{}
+
 	projects, err := loadProjectMetadata(LocProjMeta)
 	if err != nil {
 		slog.Error("Failed: unable to read the projects Metadata", "Reason", err)
@@ -237,10 +245,11 @@ func handleProjectsUpdater() {
 
 			if strings.Compare(*storedRelease, *latestRelease) != 0 {
 				slog.Info("Release Versions", "Proj", proj.Name, "Org", proj.Organization, "Latest", *latestRelease, "Current", *storedRelease)
-				if err := storage.Write(proj.Name, *latestRelease); err != nil {
+				if err := storage.Update(proj.Name, *latestRelease); err != nil {
 					errChan <- err
 					return
 				}
+				updatedProjects.ProjNames = append(updatedProjects.ProjNames, proj.Name)
 				slog.Info("Updated to Latest version", "Proj", proj.Name, "Org", proj.Organization, "Ver", *latestRelease)
 
 			} else {
@@ -262,8 +271,14 @@ func handleProjectsUpdater() {
 	if hadFailures {
 		os.Exit(1)
 	}
-}
 
-func main() {
-	handleProjectsUpdater()
+	if v, err := json.Marshal(updatedProjects); err != nil {
+		slog.Error("failed to serialize the updated projects list", "Reason", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	} else {
+		if err := os.WriteFile(LocWriteUpdatedProjects, v, 0400); err != nil {
+			slog.Error("Failed to write the updated projects to a file", "Reason", err)
+			os.Exit(1)
+		}
+	}
 }