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Type:
Suggestion
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Resolution: Duplicate
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Component/s: Pipelines - Run Failures
In order to keep even relatively simple pipelines configurations DRY, we are required to write scripts referenced by pipelines. What I can do is use YAML anchors to reference an entire pipeline:
image: node pipelines: custom: run-tests: &run-tests - step: script: - npm install - node_modules/.bin/grunt eslint sasslint karma default: *run-tests
What I can't do is compose multiple scripts. For example, say I want several things to be custom scripts (so I can trigger them) and also compose them into branch scripts run automatically. Because of the way that YAML anchors and inheritance/merging works, this:
image: node pipelines: custom: run-tests: - step: script: &run-tests-script - npm install && export NPM_INSTALLED=1 - node_modules/.bin/grunt eslint sasslint karma deploy-dev: - step: script: &deploy-dev-script - "[[ -n $NPM_INSTALLED ]] || npm install" - node_modules/.bin/grunt deploy:dev deploy-qa: - step: script: &deploy-qa-script - "[[ -n $NPM_INSTALLED ]] || npm install" - node_modules/.bin/grunt deploy:qa branches: master: - step: script: - *run-tests-script - *deploy-dev-script - *deploy-qa-script
Is parsed into this:
{
"image": "node",
"pipelines": {
"custom": {
"run-tests": [
{
"step": {
"script": [
"npm install && export NPM_INSTALLED=1",
"node_modules/.bin/grunt eslint sasslint karma e2e"
]
}
}
],
"deploy-dev": [
{
"step": {
"script": [
"[[ -n $NPM_INSTALLED ]] || npm install",
"node_modules/.bin/grunt deploy:dev"
]
}
}
],
"deploy-qa": [
{
"step": {
"script": [
"[[ -n $NPM_INSTALLED ]] || npm install",
"node_modules/.bin/grunt deploy:qa"
]
}
}
]
},
"default": [
{
"step": {
"script": [
[
"npm install && export NPM_INSTALLED=1",
"node_modules/.bin/grunt eslint sasslint karma e2e"
],
[
"[[ -n $NPM_INSTALLED ]] || npm install",
"node_modules/.bin/grunt deploy:dev"
],
[
"[[ -n $NPM_INSTALLED ]] || npm install",
"node_modules/.bin/grunt deploy:qa"
]
]
}
}
]
}
}
The offending piece being the array of arrays of strings in script. By flattening arrays of arrays of strings in script you would allow further customization of pipelines.
An alternative to this would be to simply allow multiple steps as those can be composed purely in YAML.