Clear Cache in a pipeline step

Andrew Kent_664lhw

I use bitbucket caches with my builds. At the end of my build, I'd like to clear the cache and re-upload it (to cache anything additional the most recent build created).

 

I've tried using this plugin: https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/bitbucket-clear-cache/src/master/

 

However, when I get to the end of the pipeline, the cache is not re-uploaded even though it has been cleared by the plugin. The pipeline seems unaware that the plugin has cleared the cache.

 

```

pipelines:
branches:
master:
- step:
name: Build and Test
caches:
- gradle
script:
# cache hit happens in setup
- ./scripts/build-and-test.sh
# cache is cleared by plugin
- pipe: atlassian/bitbucket-clear-cache:3.0.0
variables:
BITBUCKET_USERNAME: $BITBUCKET_USERNAME
BITBUCKET_APP_PASSWORD: $BITBUCKET_APP_PASSWORD
# BUG? in teardown, pipelines doesn't re-upload the gradle cache

```

Halyna Berezovska

@Andrew Kent the pipe you are using is only clearing cache and not responsible for reuploading.

I think it would be useful to specify the cache for the pipe, you want to clear, and it will clear only specific cache you put like

CACHES: ["gradle"]

.If you clear the same cache and reupload it again, there is no sense to use clear-cache, but if you want to reupload some specific things, you just may not type this specific cache in the CACHES variable and it will not be cleared.

If you want some another thing to upload specific caches, you can write your custom pipe, because right now we did not consider this change (but will report this if it would be really needed).

Besides that, we are going to   release the pipe you're using soon, right now it is not official.

Regards, Galyna