pipes inside a miltiline script in Bitbucket Pipeline

[Agastya Bisht]

Hi

I was trying to run a pipe based on a specific condition in the script. The condition is multiline scripts.
I want to implement something like the below but I am getting errors. Please guide.

script:
   - >- if [ "$Var" = True ]; then
            - pipe: atlassian/aws-code-deploy:1.1.1
                variables:
                       <A>
         fi
   - >- if [ "$Var" = False ]; then
            - pipe: atlassian/aws-code-deploy:1.1.1
                variables:
                       <B>
         fi

[Patrik S · Accepted solution]

Hello @Agastya Bisht ,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

I'm afraid it's currently not possible to condition the execution of pipes in Bitbucket Pipelines, as bash does not recognize the "pipe" as a valid command. We have a feature request to implement that functionality, which you can check in the following link : 

•  https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-20555

I would suggest you to add your vote there, since this helps both developers and product managers to understand the interest. Also, make sure you add yourself as a watcher in case you want to receive first-hand updates from that ticket. Please note that all features are implemented with this policy in mind.

While this feature is not implemented, one workaround I can think of is separating the conditions into multiple steps, and finishing the step early with an exit 0 in case the condition is not met. Please refer to the example below : 

image: atlassian/default-image:3
pipelines:
  default:
    - step: 
       name: "Execute when the variable is true"
       script: 
         - if [ "$VAR" != true ]; then exit 0 ; fi # Finish the step if the $VAR value is not true
         - pipe: atlassian/aws-code-deploy:1.1.1 
           variables: <A>

    - step: 
       name: "Execute when the variable is false"
       script: 
         - if [ "$VAR" != false ]; then exit 0 ; fi # Finish the step if the $VAR value is not false
         - pipe: atlassian/aws-code-deploy:1.1.1 
           variables: <B>

Hope that helps! Let me know in case you have any questions.

Thank you, @Agastya Bisht .

Kind regards,

Patrik S

[Agastya Bisht]

Thank you, Patrik
Your provided solution worked for me.