I am having the following pipeline definition
trigger:
batch: true
resources:
repositories:
- repository: templates
type: git
ref: refs/heads/master
name: my-template
variables:
- group: deployment-branches
extends:
template: my-template.yml@templates
parameters:
${{ if ne(variables['Build.Reason'], 'PullRequest') }}:
deploy_stages:
- ${{ if eq(variables['Build.SourceBranch'], variables['dev']) }}:
- dev
- ${{ if startsWith(variables['Build.SourceBranch'], variables['test']) }}:
- test
My variables are defined in the Azures Libraly as:
dev: refs/heads/branch-1
test: refs/heads/branch-1
The problem is the eq is considered always false, even if the build branch is refs/heads/branch-1, and the startsWith is always true. I am suspecting that the values are always empty
Based on your YAML sample, the variables are defined in the variable group. The variables in variable group will expand at runtime, but the if expression will expand at compile time.
In this case, the variable: variables['dev'] is empty at the compile time.
To solve this issue, you can directly define the variables in the YAML Variables field.
For example:
trigger:
batch: true
resources:
repositories:
- repository: templates
type: git
ref: refs/heads/master
name: my-template
variables:
- name: dev
value: refs/heads/branch-1
- name: test
value: refs/heads/branch-1
extends:
template: my-template.yml@templates
parameters:
${{ if ne(variables['Build.Reason'], 'PullRequest') }}:
deploy_stages:
- ${{ if eq(variables['Build.SourceBranch'], variables['dev']) }}:
- dev
- ${{ if startsWith(variables['Build.SourceBranch'], variables['test']) }}:
- test