Add installGo input for adding setup-go step in sync.py

pr-checks/checks/all-platform-bundle.yml

@@ -3,12 +3,13 @@ description: "Tests using an all-platform CodeQL Bundle"
 versions: ["nightly-latest"]
 operatingSystems: ["ubuntu"]
 useAllPlatformBundle: "true"
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
   - id: init
     uses: ./../action/init
     with:
       # Swift is not supported on Ubuntu so we manually exclude it from the list here
-      languages: cpp,csharp,go,java,javascript,python,ruby 
+      languages: cpp,csharp,go,java,javascript,python,ruby
       tools: ${{ steps.prepare-test.outputs.tools-url }}
   - name: Build code
     shell: bash

pr-checks/checks/analyze-ref-input.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 name: "Analyze: 'ref' and 'sha' from inputs"
 description: "Checks that specifying 'ref' and 'sha' as inputs works"
 versions: ["default"]
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
   - uses: ./../action/init
     with:

pr-checks/checks/build-mode-manual.yml

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ name: "Build mode manual"
 description: "An end-to-end integration test of a Java repository built using 'build-mode: manual'"
 operatingSystems: ["ubuntu"]
 versions: ["nightly-latest"]
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
   - uses: ./../action/init
     id: init

pr-checks/checks/export-file-baseline-information.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 name: "Export file baseline information"
 description: "Tests that file baseline information is exported when the feature is enabled"
 versions: ["nightly-latest"]
+installGo: "true"
 env:
   CODEQL_ACTION_SUBLANGUAGE_FILE_COVERAGE: true
 steps:

pr-checks/checks/go-custom-queries.yml

@@ -5,12 +5,10 @@ operatingSystems:
 versions:
   - linked
   - nightly-latest
+installGo: "true"
 env:
   DOTNET_GENERATE_ASPNET_CERTIFICATE: "false"
 steps:
-  - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
-    with:
-      go-version: ">=1.21.0"
   - uses: ./../action/init
     with:
       languages: go

pr-checks/checks/go-indirect-tracing-workaround-diagnostic.yml

@@ -4,11 +4,8 @@ description: "Checks that we emit a diagnostic if Go is changed after the init s
 operatingSystems: ["ubuntu"]
 # pinned to a version which does not support statically linked binaries for indirect tracing
 versions: ["default"]
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
-  - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
-    with:
-      # We need a Go version that ships with statically linked binaries on Linux
-      go-version: ">=1.21.0"
   - uses: ./../action/init
     with:
       languages: go

pr-checks/checks/go-indirect-tracing-workaround-no-file-program.yml

@@ -4,11 +4,8 @@ description: "Checks that we emit a diagnostic if the `file` program is not inst
 operatingSystems: ["ubuntu"]
 # pinned to a version which does not support statically linked binaries for indirect tracing
 versions: ["default"]
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
-  - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
-    with:
-      # We need a Go version that ships with statically linked binaries on Linux
-      go-version: ">=1.21.0"
   - name: Remove `file` program
     run: |
       echo $(which file)

pr-checks/checks/go-indirect-tracing-workaround.yml

@@ -4,11 +4,8 @@ description: "Checks that our workaround for indirect tracing for Go 1.21+ on Li
 operatingSystems: ["ubuntu"]
 # pinned to a version which does not support statically linked binaries for indirect tracing
 versions: ["default"]
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
-  - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
-    with:
-      # We need a Go version that ships with statically linked binaries on Linux
-      go-version: ">=1.21.0"
   - uses: ./../action/init
     with:
       languages: go

pr-checks/checks/go-tracing-autobuilder.yml

@@ -3,13 +3,8 @@ description: "Checks that Go tracing works when using an autobuilder step"
 operatingSystems: ["ubuntu", "macos"]
 env:
   DOTNET_GENERATE_ASPNET_CERTIFICATE: "false"
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
-  - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
-    with:
-      go-version: "~1.24.0"
-      # to avoid potentially misleading autobuilder results where we expect it to download
-      # dependencies successfully, but they actually come from a warm cache
-      cache: false
   - uses: ./../action/init
     with:
       languages: go

pr-checks/checks/go-tracing-custom-build-steps.yml

@@ -1,13 +1,8 @@
 name: "Go: tracing with custom build steps"
 description: "Checks that Go tracing traces the build when using custom build steps"
 operatingSystems: ["ubuntu", "macos"]
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
-  - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
-    with:
-      go-version: "~1.24.0"
-      # to avoid potentially misleading autobuilder results where we expect it to download
-      # dependencies successfully, but they actually come from a warm cache
-      cache: false
   - uses: ./../action/init
     with:
       languages: go

pr-checks/checks/go-tracing-legacy-workflow.yml

@@ -3,13 +3,8 @@ description: "Checks that we run the autobuilder in legacy workflows with neithe
 operatingSystems: ["ubuntu", "macos"]
 env:
   DOTNET_GENERATE_ASPNET_CERTIFICATE: "false"
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
-  - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
-    with:
-      go-version: "~1.24.0"
-      # to avoid potentially misleading autobuilder results where we expect it to download
-      # dependencies successfully, but they actually come from a warm cache
-      cache: false
   - uses: ./../action/init
     with:
       languages: go

pr-checks/checks/multi-language-autodetect.yml

@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 name: "Multi-language repository"
 description: "An end-to-end integration test of a multi-language repository using automatic language detection for macOS"
 operatingSystems: ["macos", "ubuntu"]
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
-  - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
-    with:
-      go-version: ">=1.21.0"
-
   - uses: ./../action/init
     id: init
     with:

pr-checks/checks/packaging-codescanning-config-inputs-js.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 name: "Packaging: Config and input passed to the CLI"
 description: "Checks that specifying packages using a combination of a config file and input to the Action works"
 versions: ["linked", "default", "nightly-latest"] # This feature is not compatible with old CLIs
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
   - uses: ./../action/init
     with:

pr-checks/checks/packaging-config-inputs-js.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 name: "Packaging: Config and input"
 description: "Checks that specifying packages using a combination of a config file and input to the Action works"
 versions: ["linked", "default", "nightly-latest"] # This feature is not compatible with old CLIs
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
   - uses: ./../action/init
     with:

pr-checks/checks/packaging-config-js.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 name: "Packaging: Config file"
 description: "Checks that specifying packages using only a config file works"
 versions: ["linked", "default", "nightly-latest"] # This feature is not compatible with old CLIs
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
   - uses: ./../action/init
     with:

pr-checks/checks/packaging-inputs-js.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 name: "Packaging: Action input"
 description: "Checks that specifying packages using the input to the Action works"
 versions: ["linked", "default", "nightly-latest"] # This feature is not compatible with old CLIs
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
   - uses: ./../action/init
     with:

pr-checks/checks/remote-config.yml

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ operatingSystems:
 versions:
   - linked
   - nightly-latest
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
   - uses: ./../action/init
     with:

pr-checks/checks/split-workflow.yml

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ name: "Split workflow"
 description: "Tests a split-up workflow in which we first build a database and later analyze it"
 operatingSystems: ["ubuntu", "macos"]
 versions: ["linked", "default", "nightly-latest"] # This feature is not compatible with old CLIs
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
   - uses: ./../action/init
     with:

pr-checks/checks/swift-custom-build.yml

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ name: "Swift analysis using a custom build command"
 description: "Tests creation of a Swift database using custom build"
 versions: ["linked", "default", "nightly-latest"]
 operatingSystems: ["macos"]
+installGo: "true"
 env:
   DOTNET_GENERATE_ASPNET_CERTIFICATE: "false"
 steps:

pr-checks/checks/test-local-codeql.yml

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ name: "Local CodeQL bundle"
 description: "Tests using a CodeQL bundle from a local file rather than a URL"
 versions: ["nightly-latest"]
 operatingSystems: ["ubuntu"]
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
   - name: Fetch a CodeQL bundle
     shell: bash

pr-checks/checks/unset-environment.yml

@@ -5,17 +5,15 @@ operatingSystems:
 versions:
   - linked
   - nightly-latest
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
   - uses: ./../action/init
     id: init
     with:
       db-location: ${{ runner.temp }}/customDbLocation
       # Swift is not supported on Ubuntu so we manually exclude it from the list here
-      languages: cpp,csharp,go,java,javascript,python,ruby 
+      languages: cpp,csharp,go,java,javascript,python,ruby
       tools: ${{ steps.prepare-test.outputs.tools-url }}
-  - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
-    with:
-      go-version: '>=1.21.0'
   - name: Build code
     shell: bash
     run: env -i PATH="$PATH" HOME="$HOME" ./build.sh

pr-checks/checks/upload-ref-sha-input.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 name: "Upload-sarif: 'ref' and 'sha' from inputs"
 description: "Checks that specifying 'ref' and 'sha' as inputs works"
 versions: ["default"]
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
   - uses: ./../action/init
     with:

pr-checks/checks/with-checkout-path.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 name: "Use a custom `checkout_path`"
 description: "Checks that a custom `checkout_path` will find the proper commit_oid"
 versions: ["linked"]
+installGo: "true"
 steps:
   # This ensures we don't accidentally use the original checkout for any part of the test.
   - name: Delete original checkout

pr-checks/sync.py

@@ -108,6 +108,22 @@ for file in (this_dir / 'checks').glob('*.yml'):
         },
     ]
 
+    installGo = False
+    if checkSpecification.get('installGo'):
+        installGo = True if checkSpecification['installGo'].lower() == "true" else False
+
+    if installGo:
+        steps.append({
+            'name': 'Install Go',
+            'uses': 'actions/setup-go@v5',
+            'with': {
+                'go-version': '>=1.21.0',
+                # to avoid potentially misleading autobuilder results where we expect it to download
+                # dependencies successfully, but they actually come from a warm cache
+                'cache': False
+            }
+        })
+
     # If container initialisation steps are present in the check specification,
     # make sure to execute them first.
     if 'container' in checkSpecification and 'container-init-steps' in checkSpecification: