Stage artifacts during CI run

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -10,4 +10,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   check_protos:
     name: Check .proto files
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/check_protos.yml
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/check_protos.yml
+  create_ci_artifacts:
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/create_ci_artifacts.yml
+

.github/workflows/create_ci_artifacts.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+name: Create CI Artifacts
+
+on:
+  workflow_call:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+env:
+  POETRY_VERSION: 1.2.2
+  PYTHON_VERSION: 3.9
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    name: 'Proto Artifacts'
+    runs-on: 'ubuntu-latest'
+
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout Repo
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+    - name: Setup python3
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      with:
+        python-version: ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
+
+    - name: Set up Poetry
+      uses: Gr1N/setup-poetry@v8
+      with:
+        poetry-version: ${{ env.POETRY_VERSION }}
+    - name: Cache virtualenv
+      uses: actions/cache@v3
+      with:
+          path: .github/check_protos/.venv
+          key: create-artifacts-${{ runner.os }}-py${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}-${{ hashFiles('.github/artifacts/poetry.lock') }}
+
+    - name: Create staging directory
+      run: |
+        mkdir -p ${{ runner.temp }}/staging/ni
+
+    - name: Stage Client Files
+      run: |
+        rsync -av --prune-empty-dirs --include "*/" --include "*.proto" --exclude "*" ni/ ${{ runner.temp }}/staging/ni/
+
+    - name: Upload Windows Client Files Artifact
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+      with:
+        name: ni-apis
+        path: |
+          ${{ runner.temp }}/staging/ni
+        retention-days: 5