Disable Github Actions check runs from annotating files - github

Question

Looking for a way to disable Github Actions check runs from annotating files.
/* Context - Working on an eslint workflow action to comment on PR's, as it's annoying with this check runs annotating all files by default */
Ref PR- https://github.com/tamdilip/ember_poc/pull/143/files

Answer 1

Annotations are added when problem matchers finds a match in the logs.
For example. setup-node registers eslint problem matchers. which can be removed by
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v2
- uses: actions/setup-node#v2
with:
node-version: '12'
- run: |
echo "::remove-matcher owner=eslint-compact::"
echo "::remove-matcher owner=eslint-stylish::"
You can also you the eslint action I wrote, that runs linter on changed files. https://github.com/sibiraj-s/action-eslint. You can disable annotations by passing input args annotations: false
name: Lint
on:
pull_request:
push:
branches:
- master
jobs:
eslint:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v2
- uses: actions/setup-node#v2
with:
node-version: '14'
- run: npm ci # or yarn install
- uses: sibiraj-s/action-eslint#v1
with:
extensions: 'js, jsx, ts, tsx'
annotations: true
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
Read more about problem matchers here
https://github.com/actions/toolkit/blob/master/docs/commands.md#problem-matchers
Medium article for disabling annotations in other actions as well. https://sibiraj-s.medium.com/disable-annotations-in-github-actions-ff938d5ea4f3

Answer 2

Observed that CLI error logs in terminal console are automatically invoking check-runs which is the reason for annotation as this seems to be a feature of Github Action itself by default and no way to disable it by any configuration.
For time being I managed to stop the annotations by capturing those CLI logs output as XML format separately via a listener instead of directly letting the error to log in terminal console.
Still a configuration level option to toggle check-runs from annotating should be made available.