Address PR comment.

Author: edoardopirovano

.github/workflows/pr-checks.yml

@@ -830,21 +830,21 @@ jobs:
         runner/dist/codeql-runner-linux upload --sarif-file src/testdata/empty-sarif.sarif --repository $GITHUB_REPOSITORY --commit $GITHUB_SHA --ref $GITHUB_REF --github-url $GITHUB_SERVER_URL --github-auth ${{ github.token }}
 
   multi-language-repo_test-local-codeql:
-    needs: [check-js, check-node-modules]
+    needs: [check-js, check-node-modules, check-codeql-versions]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
     - name: Move codeql-action
       run: |
-        wget ${{ fromJson(needs.check-codeql-versions.outputs.nightly-url) }}
+        wget ${{ needs.check-codeql-versions.outputs.nightly-url }}
         mkdir ../action
         mv * .github ../action/
         mv ../action/tests/multi-language-repo/{*,.github} .
         mv ../action/.github/workflows .github
     - uses: ./../action/init
       with:
-        tools: "file://../action/codeql-bundle.tar.gz"
+        tools: ../action/codeql-bundle.tar.gz
     - name: Build code
       run: ./build.sh
     - uses: ./../action/analyze

lib/codeql.js

@@ -312,23 +312,18 @@ export async function setupCodeQL(
   logger: Logger
 ): Promise<{ codeql: CodeQL; toolsVersion: string }> {
   try {
+    // We use the special value of 'latest' to prioritize the version in the
+    // defaults over any pinned cached version.
+    const forceLatest = codeqlURL === "latest";
+    if (forceLatest) {
+      codeqlURL = undefined;
+    }
     let codeqlFolder: string;
     let codeqlURLVersion: string;
-    if (codeqlURL?.startsWith("file://")) {
-      codeqlFolder = await toolcache.extractTar(
-        codeqlURL.substr(7),
-        tempDir,
-        logger
-      );
+    if (codeqlURL && !codeqlURL.startsWith("http")) {
+      codeqlFolder = await toolcache.extractTar(codeqlURL, tempDir, logger);
       codeqlURLVersion = "local";
     } else {
-      // We use the special value of 'latest' to prioritize the version in the
-      // defaults over any pinned cached version.
-      const forceLatest = codeqlURL === "latest";
-      if (forceLatest) {
-        codeqlURL = undefined;
-      }
-
       codeqlURLVersion = getCodeQLURLVersion(
         codeqlURL || `/${CODEQL_BUNDLE_VERSION}/`
       );