Merge pull request #3222 from github/mbg/upload-lib/post-process

Perform SARIF post-processing independently of upload

Author: mbg

.github/workflows/__quality-queries.yml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ inputs:
     description: The name of the check run to add text to.
     required: false
   output:
-    description: The path of the directory in which to save the SARIF results
+    description: The path of the directory in which to save the SARIF results from the CodeQL CLI.
     required: false
     default: "../results"
   upload:
@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ inputs:
     description: Whether to upload the resulting CodeQL database
     required: false
     default: "true"
+  post-processed-sarif-path:
+    description: >-
+      Before uploading the SARIF files produced by the CodeQL CLI, the CodeQL Action may perform some post-processing
+      on them. Ordinarily, these post-processed SARIF files are not saved to disk. However, if a path is provided as an
+      argument for this input, they are written to the specified directory.
+    required: false
   wait-for-processing:
     description: If true, the Action will wait for the uploaded SARIF to be processed before completing.
     required: true