Can a pull request be automatically declined if the build fails ?

[Eshwar Iyer]

Whenever a build fails, the associated pull request should be automatically rejected. Is there any setting for that?

[Theodora Boudale]

Hi @Eshwar Iyer,

We don't have such a setting available, however, there may be a solution by using our API to decline a PR:

• https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/bitbucket/rest/api-group-pullrequests/#api-repositories-workspace-repo-slug-pullrequests-pull-request-id-decline-post

Are you using Bitbucket Pipelines for your builds? And if so, do you have builds running on pull-requests?

If that's the case, you can include the following after-script in your step:

script:
  - <build_commands here>
after-script:
  - if [[ $BITBUCKET_EXIT_CODE -ne 0 ]]; then curl -u ${Bitbucket_Username}:${Bitbucket_AppPassword} -X POST https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/$BITBUCKET_WORKSPACE/$BITBUCKET_REPO_SLUG/pullrequests/$BITBUCKET_PR_ID/decline; fi

where Bitbucket_Username and Bitbucket_AppPassword are Repository variables holding the Bitbucket username and app password respectively of a user that has enough permissions to decline a PR. Please note that BITBUCKET_PR_ID is available only for builds that run on pull-requests.

If you have multiple steps, you can add this after-script in all steps.

Please let me know if you're using a different CI/CD system, or if you're using Pipelines but with builds not running on pull-requests (and what you mean by associated PR in this case).

Kind regards,
Theodora