Azure DevOps Conditional Build Step

Question

I have a solution with two projects.

Integration.Api
Integration.Common

In Azure DevOps, I have steps which run for the Integration.Api project, I also have these build steps to create a NuGet package for the Integration.Common project:

dotnet Pack Common
dotnet Nuget Push

What do I put in the Custom condition textbox so that the step runs only if the Integration.Common project has changed? ie. I still want the build to run if Integration.Api has changed, but I only want the dotnet Pack steps to run if Integration.Common has changed.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

What do I put in the Custom condition textbox so that the step runs only if the Integration.Common project has changed?

There is no such out of box expressions.

But you can use a powershell script to pull out the modified files, and enables the corresponding variables, then add expressions in the custom condition textbox based on the value of variables.

Ticket: Conditional build solution in Azure DevOps

Hope this helps.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 06 '19 at 05:22

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Pretty sure you'd need to put condition on build, not on step. Put such a trigger condition on the build where you want to build common components.

trigger:
  paths:
    include:
    - /path/to/common/*

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/yaml-schema?view=azure-devops&tabs=schema#triggers

answered May 06 '19 at 05:22

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But I want the build to run if Integration.Api is updated. – David Klempfner May 06 '19 at 05:26
well, then do it vice versa – 4c74356b41 May 06 '19 at 05:27
I need the build to run regardless of which project changes. There are other build steps which are run before the dotnet build steps. I only want the dotnet build steps to run if Common has been updated. – David Klempfner May 06 '19 at 05:31
Is there some way to check the last modified date of the dll? If the last modified date of Integration.Common.dll is greater than the one currently deployed then run dotnet Pack. – David Klempfner May 06 '19 at 05:38
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you need to separate this build into 2 different builds and use packages – 4c74356b41 May 06 '19 at 05:42

Azure DevOps Conditional Build Step

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