How to I do Do... While/Until Loop ?

[dhanarajanr]

Hi All,

I am sending a web request(POST) to trigger the Bitbucket pipeline using Automation for Jira and since it is async API, I have to loop and do a subsequent web request(GET) to get the pipeline completion status. Can I achieve this? if yes kindly explain.

Thanks in advance.

[Kalyan Sattaluri · Accepted solution]

*Theoretically* - you can write a new rule which does this for you.

• Trigger -> incoming webhook (with your pipeline ID in your payload, count = 0)
• Action -> Send web request to bitbucket to get status using ID from webhookData.
• If Condition -> response has succeeded, you move on to do your next steps.
• Else Condition -> if count is < *some number* (so you dont do this indefinately)
•          Action - call the same webhook again (with the same ID in your payload, count = incremented count)

Once you have this new rule setup, you modify your original rule and after your POST action, you call this webhook rule and send your pipeline ID in the payload with count = 0, so the above steps discussed can be done.

[dhanarajanr]

Thanks @Kalyan Sattaluri , this will suit my need. brillant

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @dhanarajanr -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

No, that is not a capability of automation rules.

What problem are you trying to solve by doing this?  That is, why do this?  Knowing that may help the community to offer better suggestions.

Until we know that...some potential work-arounds are:

• Perform the polling / waiting with another service outside of Jira, and then call Jira REST API functions to perform what you needed to do in an automation rule
• Perform the polling / waiting with another service outside of Jira, and then use that to trigger a rule using a webhook
• Using a scheduled trigger rule, and a built-in stopping condition check, periodically call your REST API function.  I recommend against this approach due to the possible impacts to automation usage, service limits, etc.

Kind regards,
Bill

[dhanarajanr]

Thanks @Bill Sheboy for your response and approach options. I am planning to use the incoming webhook option suggested by @Kalyan Sattaluri as it suits my situation