test: guard the @actions/core import form against regression (#3561)

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Test Pull Request

Linked issues

Closes #3561

Test Coverage

• Type: Unit (static contract) + integration (native ESM resolution)
• Components/Functions covered: every real-source consumer of @actions/core in scripts/ and agents/ (discovered dynamically, so a new consumer is guarded automatically)
• Test framework: Jest (root .jest.config.cjs gate — no new workflow)

Testing Strategy

Four assertions:

1. Real source has consumers to guard (fails if the scan silently matches nothing).
2. No real source uses import name from "@actions/core" — the exact form that broke on the ESM-only release.
3. ESM consumers use the import * as core namespace form, not a named import.
4. The installed package exposes every core.* member those files call, verified by a real Node child process so an ESM-only release is exercised the way Actions runs it.

Deliberately not importing the agent modules in-process: several are CommonJS inside an ESM package or execute main() on import, so doing so tested unrelated behaviour and produced false results. Parked trees (.jest-skip/**, **/fixtures/**) are excluded as not-shipped code.

Mocking strategy: none. A child Node process performs real ESM resolution, so the failure mode cannot be masked.

Test Results

# Run tests locally with:
npm run test:js

• All new tests pass (4/4)
• All existing tests pass — full suite 7 failed | 261 passed | 268 total, identical failure set to the develop baseline (7 failed | 260 passed), all pre-existing and fixed on fix: test - load ESM sources that use import.meta.url under Jest (#3472) #3496; this PR adds +1 suite / +4 passing tests and regresses nothing
• Test coverage maintained or improved (new guard, no coverage change)
• No flaky tests introduced

Mutation proof (why this guard works when the old one did not). tests/js/import-includes-smoke.test.js passes 10/10 with the broken form because it only regexes relative specifiers and never executes the module:

Package	Import form	Guard result
1.11.1 (current pin)	namespace (correct)	pass 4/4
1.11.1	reverted to default	fail 2
3.0.1 (the blocking version)	namespace (correct)	pass 4/4
3.0.1	reverted to default	fail 2

I also verified empirically that babel-jest's CommonJS transform masks this failure (Must use import to load ES Module is a different, pre-existing import.meta issue) while native Node reproduces does not provide an export named 'default' — which is why the guard uses a child process.

Coverage Impact

• Current coverage: unchanged for application code; one new guard suite
• New coverage: 4 new assertions guarding the import contract of all current and future consumers
• Coverage change: n/a (test-only)

Changelog

Fixed

• Actions Import Regression Guarded — A test now fails if a default import of the Actions toolkit returns, which is what blocked the upgrade. (#3561)

Risk & Rollback

• Risk level: Low. Test-only; no runtime or production code changes.
• Rollback plan: revert.

Notes

• Discovery is dynamic, so a new @actions/core consumer is guarded without editing this file.
• npm run validate:changelog passes; the changelog-gate entry count is unchanged (10 pre-existing failures before and after, confirmed by validator JSON diff).
• eslint clean on the new file.

Checklist

• Tests follow project testing standards
• All tests are deterministic (no flakiness) — no network, no timing dependence; the child process resolves a local package
• Coverage is appropriate for changes (mutation-proven in all four combinations)
• No hardcoded test data (consumers discovered from the working tree)
• Test names clearly describe what is tested
• Related issues linked above
• Changelog entry added

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Tests
  • Added automated checks to catch incompatible Actions toolkit imports and verify that required exports are available, helping prevent regressions that could interrupt automation.
• Documentation
  • Added an entry to the unreleased changelog noting the Actions import regression guard.

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The change adds a regression test for @actions/core imports and records the guard in the changelog. The test scans files under scripts and agents, checks import forms, and verifies that the installed package exports each detected core.* member.

Changes

Actions Core import regression guard

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Import validation and changelog scripts/validation/__tests__/actions-core-import.test.js, CHANGELOG.md	The test scans JavaScript and MJS files under scripts and agents, excluding configured directories. It rejects default and named-only import forms, checks for namespace imports, and verifies that the installed package exports detected core.* members. The changelog records the guard.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 077a1

The test can pass despite import forms or package-member usage it is intended to catch. Close these gaps before relying on it to protect upgrades.

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding a regression test to guard the @actions/core import form.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #3561 requires a mutation-proven guard for the @actions/core import form and execution in the existing npm run test:js gate. The new Jest test scans real .js and .mjs source under `scrip…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes stay within Issue #3561. The new test directly guards the reported @actions/core regression. The one-line changelog entry documents that guard and references the issue. No unrelated impl…
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PR Summary by Qodo

Guard @actions/core imports against ESM regressions

🧪 Tests 📝 Documentation 🕐 10-20 Minutes

AI Description

• Dynamically scan shipped scripts and agents for unsupported @actions/core import forms.
• Validate referenced toolkit APIs through native Node ESM resolution.
• Document the regression guard in the changelog.

Diagram

graph TD
  J["Jest guard"] -->|scans| S["Scripts and agents"] -->|finds| C["Core consumers"] -->|checks| I["Import contract"]
  C -->|extracts calls| U["Used API members"] -->|passes to| N["Native Node ESM"] -->|imports| P[("@actions/core package")]

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High-Level Assessment

The following are alternative approaches to this PR:

1. Parse imports with an AST

• ➕ Handles multiline imports, aliases, and formatting changes more robustly
• ➕ Can associate namespace aliases with member usage precisely
• ➖ Adds parser traversal complexity to a focused regression test
• ➖ Couples the guard to parser configuration and supported syntax

Recommendation: Keep the PR's hybrid static-scan and native-child-process approach. It directly tests the prohibited syntax while preserving the essential real ESM resolution that Babel-based Jest imports would mask. An AST scanner would become preferable only if consumer import patterns grow more varied or the current regex assumptions become difficult to maintain.

Files changed (2) +127 / -0

Tests (1) +126 / -0

actions-core-import.test.jsAdd static and native ESM import contract checks +126/-0

Add static and native ESM import contract checks

• Adds a Jest regression suite that dynamically discovers '@actions/core' consumers in shipped scripts and agents, rejecting unsupported default and named-only imports. It extracts referenced 'core.*' members and verifies them against the installed package in a native Node ESM child process.

scripts/validation/tests/actions-core-import.test.js

Documentation (1) +1 / -0

CHANGELOG.mdDocument the Actions import regression guard +1/-0

Document the Actions import regression guard

• Adds a Fixed entry explaining that tests now reject the default toolkit import form that blocked the package upgrade.

CHANGELOG.md

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📋 Changelog Quality Validation

Metric	Count
✅ Passing	92
❌ Failing	10
🆕 New failures in this PR	0
📦 Pre-existing failures	10

Status

✅ Validation PASSED - No new failures introduced by this PR.
Note: 10 pre-existing failure(s) remain in the Unreleased section.

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Full review requested for #3562 (new PR; the auto-review was rate limited). Test-only change: a regression guard for the @actions/core import form (#3561), the issue that blocked #3503.

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1. Whether the guard can false-pass — it discovers consumers dynamically and uses a native Node child process because babel-jest masks the ESM failure.
2. Whether excluding .jest-skip/** and **/fixtures/** from the scan hides a real consumer.
3. The mutation evidence in the PR body (guard fails in 2 of 4 combinations).

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Inline comments:
In `@scripts/validation/__tests__/actions-core-import.test.js`:
- Line 31: Update DEFAULT_IMPORT and namedOnly so their checks recognize
multiline default imports from `@actions/core`, including imports that combine a
default binding with named bindings. Ensure such an import causes the
default-import regression test to fail even when another file retains a
namespace import.
- Line 91: Update the import validation using NAMESPACE_IMPORT so it checks each
`@actions/core` import individually and rejects any non-namespace import,
including in files that also contain a namespace import.
- Line 101: Update the namespace member scan in the test to capture each binding
from the namespace import pattern, including valid names containing `$`, then
escape each binding before matching member accesses. Match identifiers without
relying on `\b`, so aliases such as `$core` are detected safely.

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CodeRabbit full review — all 3 findings dispositioned (verified, not assumed)

Finding 1 (Major) — multi-line default imports evade the guard: CONFIRMED, fixed.
Verified the gap directly, then found my first fix was itself wrong: the clause pattern used [${s}S]*?, which spans across earlier import statements, so the captured clause was garbage and the regression import core from ... still passed. Caught by re-running the mutation. Final pattern forbids ; and import inside the clause, so it cannot cross a statement boundary while still allowing multi-line clause lists.

Finding 2 (Minor) — imports.every() can mask a non-namespace import: premise WRONG, rule corrected.
I tested the assumption on 3.0.1: a named import works fine (info = function). So requiring the namespace form was over-strict and would have rejected valid code. Replaced with the real contract: no default clause; namespace and named are both allowed. Per-import classification (flatMap) also removes the every() masking concern.

Finding 3 (Major) — non-literal RegExp / ReDoS: accepted, simplified.
The specifier is a fixed string, so the interpolation bought nothing. Now literal patterns with no dynamic construction.

Mutation matrix after the rewrite (executed, @actions/core 3.0.1)

Import form	Expected	Result
import * as core (correct)	pass	pass 3/3
import core, {\n info\n} (multi-line default — finding 1)	fail	fail
import core (the #3547 regression)	fail	fail
import { info } (valid on 3.x — finding 2)	pass	pass 3/3

Also re-ran on the pinned 1.11.1: 3/3 pass. Full suite 7 failed | 261 passed — same pre-existing failure set as develop (fixed on #3496); no regressions. eslint clean. Pushed as 43287e98.

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All three findings were addressed in 43287e9, each verified by execution rather than inspection:

1. Multi-line default imports — IMPORT_CLAUSE now handles multi-line clause lists while forbidding ; and import inside the clause, so it cannot capture text across an earlier import statement.
2. imports.every() masking — replaced with per-import classification via flatMap, and the over-strict namespace-only rule was dropped: a named import is valid against the ESM-only release (verified on 3.0.1), so only a default clause is rejected.
3. Non-literal RegExp — removed; the specifier is now a literal in the pattern.

Mutation proof on @actions/core 3.0.1: namespace → pass; multi-line default → fail; single-line default → fail; named-only → pass. Pinned 1.11.1: 3/3 pass. Full suite unchanged from develop (same 7 pre-existing failures, fixed on #3496); eslint clean.

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Learnt from: eleshar
URL: https://github.com/lightspeedwp/.github/pull/3562

Timestamp: 2026-09-24T16:43:03.157Z
Learning: In `scripts/validation/__tests__/actions-core-import.test.js`, the `actions/core` import guard should reject default imports but permit namespace and named imports. A named import was verified to work with `actions/core` 3.0.1; requiring namespace imports would reject valid code.

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