Cannot setup job on self hosted runner

[LucBerge]

Hello,

I am having an issue using the action on a self-hosted runner. The job has not even started it fails at the Set up job step:

Prepare workflow directory
Prepare all required actions
Getting action download info
Download action repository 'schneegans/dynamic-badges-action@e9a478b16159b4d31420099ba146cdc50f134483' (SHA:e9a478b16159b4d31420099ba146cdc50f134483)
Error: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. (Parameter ''using: node20' is not supported, use 'docker', 'node12' or 'node16' instead.')
   at GitHub.Runner.Worker.ActionManifestManager.ConvertRuns(IExecutionContext executionContext, TemplateContext templateContext, TemplateToken inputsToken, String fileRelativePath, MappingToken outputs)
   at GitHub.Runner.Worker.ActionManifestManager.Load(IExecutionContext executionContext, String manifestFile)
Error: Fail to load schneegans\dynamic-badges-action\e9a478b16159b4d31420099ba146cdc50f134483\action.yml

I have node18 installed.

@Schneegans Did you try to run the action on a self-hosted runner? If yes, what node version?

[LucBerge]

I am trying to verify #14, I am behind a proxy

[Schneegans]

Well, the node version was bumped as part of #25. I think there is no requirement to use node 20 (except for that GitHub recommends it). I just pushed a branch test/node16 which uses the older node version. Do you want to test this instead? Like this: uses: schneegans/dynamic-badges-action@test/node16.

[LucBerge]

Do you want to test this instead? Like this: uses: schneegans/dynamic-badges-action@test/node16. I will try.

Can you run your action (master branch) on a self hosted runner to see what you have?

[Schneegans]

Yeah, I can test this later today!

[LucBerge]

For some reasons, it is working with branch test/node16. But in order to make it compatible, you must:

• Install node-fetch:

  npm install node-fetch

• Add in index.js:

  import fetch from "node-fetch";
  import { Headers } from "node-fetch";

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The problem with this line (action.yml) https://github.com/Schneegans/dynamic-badges-action/blob/e9a478b16159b4d31420099ba146cdc50f134483/action.yml#L82 is that you force your action to run with node20 only. Current self-hosted runners use node16. So when my runner set up the job, it fails because your action force to use node20. I cannot install node20 using the setup-node action because it fails before.

[LucBerge]

@Schneegans I think, if you want to make your action compatible with enterprise and/or self-hosted runners, you must downgrade to node16 because this is the latest supported node version for github runners.

Looks like most of the actions uses node16. Maybe for self-hosted runner compatibility!?

https://github.com/marketplace?category=&query=&type=actions&verification=
https://github.com/search?q=%22using%3A+node%22+path%3A**%2Faction.yml&type=code

[LucBerge]

Regarding this post, Github is moving from node16 to node20 and And self-hosted runners are at version 2.311.0 but not for companies.

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What happened

The current version of my Github Enterprise is 3.10.2. In this version, when I want to setup a runner, It ask me to install runner version 2.304.0 from my company source. I guess this is a special runner compatible with my company only. Your action runs on node20 which is not compatible with the current enterprise runner I have.