BUG: Ensure coverage comment is properly triggered

.github/workflows/CI.yml

@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           pattern: coverage-data-*
           merge-multiple: true
+
       - name: "Get coverage data & fail if it's <80%"
         run: |
           # if we decide to check cov across versions and combine
@@ -216,13 +217,29 @@ jobs:
 
           # report again and fail if under 80%.
           python -Im coverage report --fail-under=80
+
       - name: "Upload HTML report if check failed 📤"
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
           name: html-report
           path: htmlcov
         if: ${{ failure() }}
 
+      # seems we need to call this from the main CI workflow first
+      - name: "Coverage comment 💬"
+        uses: py-cov-action/python-coverage-comment-action@v3
+        id: coverage_comment
+        with:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+      - name: "Store Pull Request comment to be posted 📤"
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        if: steps.coverage_comment.outputs.COMMENT_FILE_WRITTEN == 'true'
+        with:
+          # leave default names
+          name: python-coverage-comment-action
+          path: python-coverage-comment-action.txt
+
   profiling:
     needs: [build-site, run-pytest]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest

.github/workflows/coverage.yml

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ jobs:
   test:
     name: "Run tests & display coverage"
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: github.event.workflow_run.event == 'pull_request' && github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'success'
     permissions:
       pull-requests: write
       contents: write # needed to edit the comment vs opening multiple ones
@@ -22,13 +23,7 @@ jobs:
           route: GET /repos/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.event.workflow_run.id }}
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      - name: "Check if the trigger was a PR event"
-        run: |
-          TRIGGER_EVENT=$(echo '${{ steps.get-run.outputs.data }}' | jq -r '.event')
-          if [[ "$TRIGGER_EVENT" != "pull_request" ]]; then
-            echo "Workflow was not triggered by a PR, skipping coverage comment."
-            exit 78  # Exiting with a neutral status
-          fi
+
       # this needs the .coverage file so we download from the CI workflow artifacts
       - name: "Download coverage data 📥"
         uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
@@ -37,6 +32,10 @@ jobs:
           merge-multiple: true
           github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           run-id: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.id }}
+
+      - name: "Check downloaded files"
+        run: ls -R
+
       - name: "Post coverage comment"
         uses: py-cov-action/python-coverage-comment-action@v3
         with:

tox.ini

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ labels =
 
 # general tox env configuration
 # these can be run with any py3{9,12} version
-# tox run -e py39-lint  
+# tox run -e py39-lint
 [testenv]
 deps =
     lint: pre-commit
@@ -41,9 +41,11 @@ commands =
     # example tox run -e py39-profile-docs -- -o profile.svg -n 100
     profile-docs: python ./tools/profile.py {posargs}
 
-# tests can be ran with or without coverage (see examples below), it is recommended to run compile before running tests (see examples below), 
+# tests can be ran with or without coverage (see examples below), 
+# it is recommended to run compile before running tests (see examples below), 
 # tox run -e compile,py39-tests 
-# if you want to skip the assets compilation step you can run the tests without `compile`
+# if you want to skip the assets compilation step you can run the tests without 
+#`compile`, for example:
 # tox run -e py39-tests 
 # run tests with a specific Sphinx version
 # tox run -e compile,py39-sphinx61-tests