feat(workflows): create a workflow to open issue when outdate deps

Refs discussion#421

.github/workflows/check_outdated_dependencies.yml

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+---
+
+name: Check outdated dependencies
+
+on: workflow_dispatch
+
+jobs:
+  check_outdate_dependencies:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out the code
+        uses: actions/checkout@main
+
+      - name: Check workflow dependencies 
+        uses: ./workflows/check_outdate_deps
+        env:
+          GITHUB_REPOSITORY: ${{ github.repository }}
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TOKEN }}
+          REQUIREMENT_FILE: "requirements-workflow.txt"

requirements-workflow.txt

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+ansible==9.1.0
+ansible-compat==4.1.10
+ansible-core==2.16.2
+ansible-lint==6.22.1

workflows/check_outdate_deps/Dockerfile

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+FROM python:3.12-slim
+
+COPY check_outdate_deps.sh /check_outdate_deps.sh
+
+RUN chmod +x /check_outdate_deps.sh
+
+# needed for the open_issue.py
+RUN pip3 install requests
+
+ENTRYPOINT [ "/check_outdate_deps.sh" ]

workflows/check_outdate_deps/action.yml

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+name: 'Check dependencies and try to solve it'
+description: 'This action will check dependencies in .github/workflows that are installed using pip and open issue and create a pull request to solve the problem'
+runs:
+  using: 'docker'
+  image: 'Dockerfile'

workflows/check_outdate_deps/check_outdate_deps.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+pip3 install -r $REQUIREMENT_FILE
+input=`pip3 list --outdated`
+
+compare_versions() {
+   local version1=$1 
+   local version2=$2
+   local IFS='.'
+
+   read -ra version1_splitted <<< "$version1"
+   read -ra version2_splitted <<< "$version2"
+
+   for ((i=0;i<${#version1_splitted[@]};i++)); do
+       delta=$(( ${version1_splitted[i]} - ${version2_splitted[i]} ))
+       if (( $delta != 0 )); then
+           echo $delta
+           return
+       fi
+   done
+   echo 0
+}
+
+while read -r line; do
+    if [[ $line =~ ^([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)\ +([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)\ +([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)\ +([a-zA-Z]+) ]]; then
+        package="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
+        version="${BASH_REMATCH[2]}"
+        latest="${BASH_REMATCH[3]}"
+
+        if [ $(compare_versions "$version" "$latest") -lt 0 ]; then
+            ./workflows/check_outdate_deps/open_issue.py $package $version $latest
+        fi
+    fi
+done <<< "$input"

workflows/check_outdate_deps/open_issue.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import argparse
+import requests
+import os
+import json
+
+# Arguments parsing
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Open issue with the correct argument")
+parser.add_argument("package", type=str, help='The name of the package')
+parser.add_argument("version", type=str, help='The current version of the package')
+parser.add_argument("latest", type=str, help='The latest version of the package')
+args = parser.parse_args()
+
+# Environment variable
+repo = os.environ.get("GITHUB_REPOSITORY")
+requirement_file = os.environ.get("REQUIREMENT_FILE")
+
+# Define the title
+issue_title = "Dependency outdated in " + requirement_file + ": " + args.package + ":" + args.version + " -> " + args.latest
+
+# The double quote on the issue_title is necessary to avoid duplicate issues
+query = f"repo:{repo} type:issue in:title \"{issue_title}\""
+
+# Send the query
+response = requests.get("https://api.github.com/search/issues", params={"q": query})
+data = response.json()
+
+# There is this error that we somehow try to avoid
+# {'message': "API rate limit exceeded for 93.45.31.205. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check 
+# out the documentation for more details.)", 'documentation_url': 'https://docs.github.com/rest/overview/resources-in-the-rest-api#rat
+# e-limiting'}
+if data["total_count"] > 0:
+    print("There is already an issue with this title!")
+else:
+    issue_description = "This issue is created automatically"
+    token = os.environ.get("GITHUB_TOKEN")
+    issue = {"title": issue_title, "body": issue_description}
+    headers = {"Authorization": f"token {token}"}
+
+    response = requests.post(f"https://api.github.com/repos/{repo}/issues", headers=headers, data=json.dumps(issue))
+
+    # Check the response
+    if response.status_code == 201:
+        print("Issue created successfully.")
+    else:
+        print(f"Failed to create issue. Status code: {response.status_code}.")