Buil not triggered for branchToUse

[aashishc94-git]

Hello ,
I am currently running TruggerBuild@4

        - task: TriggerBuild@4
          displayName: "Trigger deployment "
          name: TriggerInfra
          inputs:
            project: '$(System.TeamProject)'
            definitionIsInCurrentTeamProject: true
            buildDefinition: 'deploy-infra'
            useSameBranch: false
            authenticationMethod: 'Personal Access Token'
            password: $(artifactPATToken)
            branchToUse: 'refs/heads/release/sprint-45.4'
            waitForQueuedBuildsToFinish: true
            templateParameters: 'environment: ${{parameters.environment}}

When i run this for ref/heads/main it is triggered successfully
Can you please help

[huserben]

Hi @aashishc94-git

I assume with what you run now it's not working?
If so, can you share the logs?

Can you try running it without the "refs/heads" and just the branch name?
Is the version of the pipeline on the specific branch having those template parameters that you are passing? As the pipeline yaml may be different on that branch, this could be a reason why the task will not work.

What else have you tried already?

[aashishc94-git]

Hey ,
Thanks for the reply

You were right adding branchToUse without refs/heads triggered pipeline with desired branch only if i am not adding template parameters

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Using following Authentication Method: Personal Access Token
Using Personal Access Token
Provided team project was guid.
Context is Build - using Build Environment Variables
Build shall be triggered for same user that triggered current build: Chadha, Aashish
Will trigger build with following template parameters: region: USA
Found parameter region with value: USA
Error during request (1/5)
Error message: Error: Could not queue the build because there were validation errors or warnings.
Will wait 1 seconds before retrying request...

Error message: Error: Could not queue the build because there were validation errors or warnings.
##[debug]task result: Failed
##[error]Request failed after 5 tries - see error messages in the log
##[debug]Processed: ##vso[task.issue type=error;source=TaskInternal;]Request failed after 5 tries - see error messages in the log
##[debug]Processed: ##vso[task.complete result=Failed;]Request failed after 5 tries - see error messages in the log

this is the pipeline i want to trigger
trigger: none

pool:
vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'

parameters:

• name: region
  type: string
  default: 'EU'
  values:
  • EU
  • USA

Also, see error messages in the log where can i see these logs

[huserben]

The error comes from the ADO API, meaning something is not correctly configured. As it works if you don't specify the parameters, the issue is most likely there.

Did you make sure that you can override the params? See #192 (comment) as otherwise this can happen

[aashishc94-git]

But i am trying to override parameters that are part of yaml not the build parameters
if i use templateParameters with 'main' it overrides and trigger pipeline successfully

Do you know where can i check the error logs

##[debug]Processed: ##vso[task.complete result=Failed;]Request failed after 5 tries - see error messages in the log

[huserben]

Ok sorry, mixed those two up.

There are no further logs other than the one you pasted. So the "error messages in the log" are these:

Error during request (1/5)
Error message: Error: Could not queue the build because there were validation errors or warnings.
Will wait 1 seconds before retrying request...

Error message: Error: Could not queue the build because there were validation errors or warnings.

Which is a generic error from the API, and not the task itself (so it's semi helpful...)

What I don't get, in your initial post you shared the yaml, including the templateParameters:
templateParameters: 'environment: ${{parameters.environment}}

But in the logs, it's not using "environment":

Will trigger build with following template parameters: region: USA
Found parameter region with value: USA

Just wondering if the yaml is the one that is producing those logs? I would have expected that the pipeline you want to trigger has a parameter called environment then.

You could try to run your build with system diagnostics enabled and see if you get more output:

Other than that, you could try to manually trigger the pipeline through an API call and see if you would get more details from the API. In my experience, this is usually linked to parameters not matching what the triggered pipeline expects. that may be some typo or casing issue.

[aashishc94-git]

Pipeline A (Triggering pipeline)
parameters:

• name: region
  type: string
  default: 'EU'
  values:
  • EU
  • USA
    • task: TriggerBuild@4
      displayName: "Trigger deployment "
      name: TriggerPipelineB
      inputs:
      project: '$(System.TeamProject)'
      definitionIsInCurrentTeamProject: true
      buildDefinition: 'deploy-pipelineb'
      useSameBranch: false
      authenticationMethod: 'Personal Access Token'
      password: $(artifactPATToken)
      branchToUse: 'release/test'
      waitForQueuedBuildsToFinish: true
      templateParameters: 'region: ${{parameters.region}}

Pipeline B (to be triggered)

trigger: none

pool:
vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'

parameters:

• name: region
  type: string
  default: 'EU'
  values:
  • EU
  • USA

variables:

• name: System.Debug
  value: true
• group: config-release-internal
• group: config-dev-${{ parameters.region }}

i have enabled advance options but the pipeline B is never triggered
and pipeline a logs i have already shared

am i missing something here ?

[huserben]

And in the repository where Pipeline B is located:

• There is a branch called release/test
• What you posted here as Pipeline B configuration is what is currently the version in the branch release/test?

[aashishc94-git]

Yes, and the pipeline is triggered for this branch when templateParameters are not there

[huserben]

Hmm ok, then I'm not really sure anymore what the issue could be.
The parameters are discovered through the logs. My last assumption was that the pipeline version in release/test does not have any parameters specified which would explain the behaviour (it works without template params specified, it rejects with params).

If that's not the case, I'm not sure, sorry.
What you could try is to manually send a request and see if you get more/better error logs