docs: Add guide to showcase handling outputs
Add a guide which highlights how to handle action's outputs by writing them to the client filesystem and using CUE's integrations to marshal them as JSON. Signed-off-by: Marcos Lilljedahl <marcosnils@gmail.com>
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slug: /1227/contributing
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displayed_sidebar: europa
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# Contributing to Dagger
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slug: /1226/handling-outputs
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# Handling action outputs
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It's most likely that upon executing a Dagger action, you'll find in the situation of having to parse some outputs. In Dagger 0.1 (pre-Europa), inputs and outputs had to be specifically defined; starting Dagger 0.2 (Europa) we introduced a brand new API which removed this capability temporarily until we come up with the [right UX](https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/1351) to bring this back. Until the API is ready, you can follow this guide which shows different **temporary** alternatives of parsing dagger outputs.
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## Writing outputs to the filesystem
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As showcased in the [interacting with the client](/1203/client) docs, Dagger already has the ability to write into the client filesystem through the `client` API. Using this capability we can then output any value into our local filesystem for further automation.
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Here's a simple example of a plain text output:
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```cue file=../tests/core-concepts/client/plans/output_simple.cue.fragment
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```
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After performing `dagger do test`, a new file named `output.txt` will be present in the current working directory with the output of the `bash.#Run` action.
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## Marshalling multiple outputs
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The above example works well for simple outputs, but most of the time some actions like [Netlify's](https://github.com/dagger/dagger/blob/main/pkg/universe.dagger.io/netlify/netlify.cue) can output mutiple values. In this case, Netlify's action is returning the deployment `url`, `deployUrl` and `logsUrl`. On this case, we can leverage on CUE's [default integrations](https://cuelang.org/docs/integrations/) and marshal all the values into a single `json` or `yaml` file.
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Here's an example on how to marshal multiple output values:
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```cue file=../tests/core-concepts/client/plans/output_marshal.cue.fragment
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```
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#SomeAction: {
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// Nop to make dagger run the action
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core.#Nop & {}
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url: "test.com"
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deployUrl: "test.com/deploy"
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logsUrl: "test.com/logs"
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}
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dagger.#Plan & {
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client: filesystem: "output.json": write: contents: json.Marshal({
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url: actions.test.url
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deployUrl: actions.test.deployUrl
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logsUrl: actions.test.logsUrl
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})
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actions: {
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test: #SomeAction & {}
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}
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}
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dagger.#Plan & {
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client: filesystem: "output.txt": write: contents: actions.test.export.files["/hello.txt"]
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actions: {
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_image: alpine.#Build & {
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packages: bash: {}
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}
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test: bash.#Run & {
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input: _image.output
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script: contents: "echo Hello World! > /hello.txt"
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export: files: "/hello.txt": string
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}
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}
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}
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"guides/custom-buildkit",
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"guides/self-signed-certificates",
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"guides/pushing-plan-dependencies",
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"guides/coding-style",
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"guides/handling-outputs",
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],
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},
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{
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