Description
Use case
A task may define some custom build variable that would need to later be retrieved in subsequent tasks.
The current mechanism to handle this is to share artifacts between the tasks - the problem with this approach is that the "native" bamboo tasks, such as the ant task could not access this "custom build variables"; we would need to write a wrapper script that parses the artifact then invoked the ant command.
Tested case
I created custom build variables using the variableDefinitionManager
VariableDefinition vd = new VariableDefinitionImpl();
vd.setPlan(plan);
vd.setVariableType(VariableType.PLAN);
vd.setKey(k);
vd.setValue(v);
variableDefinitions.add( vd );
variableDefinitionManager.saveVariableDefinitions(variableDefinitions);
what currently works:
*Pass variables between tasks
Plan Stage 1 Job1 task 1A: set_plan_variable myVar task 1B : print_variable myVar
What does not work:
- Pass variables between a jobs (expected not to work since jobs can be concurrent)
- Pass variables between a stages
Plan Stage 1 Job1 task 1A: set_plan_variable myVar Stage 2: Job1 task 2A : print_variable myVar