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How to add tags to pipelines - doesn't accept tag name

shilohuniversity

I'm not sure why I can't specify what I thought was a simple name for the tags in the bitbucket-pipelines.yml

pipelines:

tags:

release-*:

Using the validator the only way I can make this valid it to use * for the name of the tag after tags:. Anything else, even a single word like release gives me the error "Expected a List". I can't seem to find anywhere that details how this should work for identifying tags.

Validator - https://bitbucket-pipelines.prod.public.atl-paas.net/validator

Accepted answers

Daniil Penkin

Hello @shilohuniversity,

Thanks for reaching out.

There's nothing wrong in the excerpt you posted. The validator is complaining on the missing content of release-* block: it has to be a list. That is, your config file is incomplete.

This is validated without any errors:

pipelines:
  tags:
    release-*:
      - step:
          script:
            - echo "Hello world"

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Daniil

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Daniil Penkin

Hello @shilohuniversity,

Thanks for reaching out.

There's nothing wrong in the excerpt you posted. The validator is complaining on the missing content of release-* block: it has to be a list. That is, your config file is incomplete.

This is validated without any errors:

pipelines:
  tags:
    release-*:
      - step:
          script:
            - echo "Hello world"

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Daniil

shilohuniversity

Hi Daniil,

I was going fast and didn't actually add the entire script. Sorry for the confusion. Here is the whole script. Using release-* gives me an error in the validator:

pipelines:  
  tags:
    release-*:
      -step:
        name: Deploy to Production
        deployment: Production
        script:
          - ssh -tt $USER@$DOMAIN << EOF
          - cd $URL
          - touch newfilefromtag.tmp
          - exit $?
          - EOF

As I typed this in I realized that my formatting was off. Missing spaces in certain places. YAML is very picky. Here is the corrected code for reference:

pipelines:  
  tags:
    release-*:
      - step:
          name: Deploy to Production
          deployment: Production
          script:
            - ssh -tt $USER@$DOMAIN << EOF
            - cd $URL
            - touch newfilefromtag.tmp
            - exit $?
            - EOF

Didn't have a space in between the dash and step. Also, needs 4 spaces below the step before name:

Thanks for your help!

Daniil Penkin

Glad that it worked!

Missing spaces in certain places. YAML is very picky.

Yeah, this is a tradeoff of its conciseness, compared to JSON.

By the way, aside from the online validator there's at least a couple of plugins I'm aware of for IDEs which might help with debugging/validating Pipelines config file locally:

AtlasCode plugin for Visual Studio Code does a lot of things, but also bundles a JSON schema for bitbucket-pipelines.yml.
Bitbucket Linky plugin for IntelliJ IDEs also contains a JSON schema as well as some additional validations and inspections for bitbucket-pipelines.yml. Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer of this plugin

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Daniil

shilohuniversity

Thanks! I just downloaded those plugins to try them out. Hoping that will help out with these formatting syntax errors in the future.

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