Capture rate limit and ref not existing config errors

src/api-client.ts

@@ -5,10 +5,12 @@ import consoleLogLevel from "console-log-level";
 
 import { getActionVersion, getRequiredInput } from "./actions-util";
 import {
+  ConfigurationError,
   getRequiredEnvParam,
   GITHUB_DOTCOM_URL,
   GitHubVariant,
   GitHubVersion,
+  isHTTPError,
   parseGitHubUrl,
   parseMatrixInput,
 } from "./util";
@@ -192,3 +194,15 @@ export function computeAutomationID(
 
   return automationID;
 }
+
+export function wrapApiConfigurationError(e: unknown) {
+  if (isHTTPError(e)) {
+    if (
+      e.message.includes("API rate limit exceeded for site ID installation") ||
+      /^ref .* not found in this repository$/.test(e.message)
+    ) {
+      return new ConfigurationError(e.message);
+    }
+  }
+  return e;
+}

src/upload-lib.ts

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import * as jsonschema from "jsonschema";
 import * as actionsUtil from "./actions-util";
 import { getOptionalInput, getRequiredInput } from "./actions-util";
 import * as api from "./api-client";
-import { getGitHubVersion } from "./api-client";
+import { getGitHubVersion, wrapApiConfigurationError } from "./api-client";
 import { CodeQL, getCodeQL } from "./codeql";
 import { getConfig } from "./config-utils";
 import { EnvVar } from "./environment";
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ async function uploadPayload(
           break;
       }
     }
-    throw e;
+    throw wrapApiConfigurationError(e);
   }
 }