Update codeql.ts

src/analysis-paths.ts

@@ -53,6 +53,6 @@ export function includeAndExcludeAnalysisPaths(config: configUtils.Config, langu
         config.pathsIgnore.length !== 0 ||
         filters.length !== 0) &&
       !languages.every(isInterpretedLanguage)) {
-    core.warning('The "paths"/"paths-ignore" fields of the config only have effect for Javascript and Python');
+    core.warning('The "paths"/"paths-ignore" fields of the configuration only effect Javascript and Python analysis. [Learn more](https://docs.github.com/en/github/finding-security-vulnerabilities-and-errors-in-your-code/configuring-code-scanning#specifying-directories-to-scan) about modifying the directories to scan. );
   }
 }

src/autobuild.ts

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ async function run() {
     core.endGroup();
 
   } catch (error) {
-    core.setFailed("We were unable to automatically build your code. Please replace the call to the autobuild action with your custom build steps.  " + error.message);
+    core.setFailed(`We were unable to automatically build your ${language} code. Please replace the call to the autobuild action with your custom build steps.  \n` + error.message);
     await util.reportActionFailed('autobuild', error.message, error.stack);
     return;
   }

src/codeql.ts

@@ -61,7 +61,19 @@ export interface ResolveQueriesOutput {
     [queryPath: string]: {}
   };
 }
-
+const options =  {
+  ignoreReturnCode: true, 
+  failOnStdErr: true,
+  silent:true,
+  listeners: {
+    stdout: (data: Buffer) => {
+      core.debug("Debug" + data.toString());
+    },
+    stderr: (data: Buffer) => {
+      core.error("Error occured" + data.toString());
+    }
+  }
+};
 /**
  * Environment variable used to store the location of the CodeQL CLI executable.
  * Value is set by setupCodeQL and read by getCodeQL.
@@ -185,10 +197,14 @@ function getCodeQLForCmd(cmd: string): CodeQL {
           '--language=' + language
         ],
         {
-          silent: true,
+          ignoreReturnCode: true, 
           listeners: {
-            stdout: (data) => { extractorPath += data.toString(); },
-            stderr: (data) => { process.stderr.write(data); }
+            stdout: (data: Buffer) => {
+              core.debug("Debug" + data.toString());
+            },
+            stderr: (data: Buffer) => {
+              core.error("Error occured" + data.toString());
+            }
           }
         });
 
@@ -203,14 +219,15 @@ function getCodeQLForCmd(cmd: string): CodeQL {
         databasePath,
         '--',
         traceCommand
-      ]);
+      ], options);
     },
     finalizeDatabase: async function(databasePath: string) {
+      core.debug("Finalizing " + databasePath);
       await exec.exec(cmd, [
         'database',
         'finalize',
         databasePath
-      ]);
+      ], options );
     },
     resolveQueries: async function(queries: string[]) {
       let output = '';
@@ -221,14 +238,7 @@ function getCodeQLForCmd(cmd: string): CodeQL {
           'queries',
           ...queries,
           '--format=bylanguage'
-        ],
-        {
-          listeners: {
-            stdout: (data: Buffer) => {
-              output += data.toString();
-            }
-          }
-        });
+        ], options);
 
       return JSON.parse(output);
     },
@@ -243,7 +253,7 @@ function getCodeQLForCmd(cmd: string): CodeQL {
           '--output=' + sarifFile,
           '--no-sarif-add-snippets',
           querySuite
-      ]);
+        ], options);
     }
   };
 }

src/finalize-db.ts

@@ -128,7 +128,16 @@ async function runQueries(databaseFolder: string, sarifFolder: string, config: c
 
     const sarifFile = path.join(sarifFolder, database + '.sarif');
 
+    try {
       await codeql.databaseAnalyze(path.join(databaseFolder, database), sarifFile, querySuite);
+    } catch (analysisError) {
+      core.debug("test test test" + analysisError.message);
+      if (analysisError.message.contains("exit code 32")) {
+        throw new Error('Unable to analyze ' + database + ' because CodeQL was unable to detect any code for that language. \n [Learn more](https://docs.github.com/en/github/finding-security-vulnerabilities-and-errors-in-your-code/troubleshooting-code-scanning) about how to troubleshoot this error. ');
+      } else {
+        throw new Error(analysisError);
+      }
+    }
 
     core.debug('SARIF results for database ' + database + ' created at "' + sarifFile + '"');
     core.endGroup();
@@ -136,7 +145,7 @@ async function runQueries(databaseFolder: string, sarifFolder: string, config: c
 }
 
 async function run() {
-  try {
+  //try {
     if (util.should_abort('finish', true) || !await util.reportActionStarting('finish')) {
       return;
     }
@@ -165,11 +174,11 @@ async function run() {
       }
     }
 
-  } catch (error) {
+  /*} catch (error) {
     core.setFailed(error.message);
     await util.reportActionFailed('finish', error.message, error.stack);
     return;
-  }
+  }*/
 
   await util.reportActionSucceeded('finish');
 }

src/setup-tracer.ts

@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ async function run() {
     // If the languages parameter was not given and no languages were
     // detected then fail here as this is a workflow configuration error.
     if (languages.length === 0) {
-      throw new Error("Did not detect any languages to analyze. Please update input in workflow.");
+      throw new Error("Did not detect any languages to analyze. Please [update the languages property](https://docs.github.com/en/github/finding-security-vulnerabilities-and-errors-in-your-code/configuring-code-scanning#overriding-automatic-language-detection) in your workflow definition.");
     }
 
     analysisPaths.includeAndExcludeAnalysisPaths(config, languages);
@@ -243,6 +243,6 @@ async function run() {
 }
 
 run().catch(e => {
-  core.setFailed("init action failed: " + e);
+  core.setFailed("Init action failed: " + e);
   console.log(e);
 });