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I have GitLab CI config like this
image: hmmmk/androidbuildenv-jdk17-api33:latest
stages:
- build
- deploy
# TODO: replace with assembleRelease
build_main:
stage: build
script:
- ./gradlew assembleDebug
artifacts:
paths:
- app/build/outputs/
rules:
- if: '$CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME == "main"'
when: always
- if: '$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME == "main"'
when: never
build_develop:
stage: build
script:
- ./gradlew assembleDebug
artifacts:
paths:
- app/build/outputs/
rules:
- if: '$CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME == "develop"'
when: always
- if: '$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME == "develop"'
when: never
deploy_develop_telegram:
stage: deploy
script:
- apk_file=$(find app/build/outputs/ -name "*.apk" | head -n 1)
- echo "Sending $apk_file to Telegram..."
- curl -F chat_id="-1" -F document=@"$apk_file" -F caption="New APK build from CI" https://api.telegram.org/botid/sendDocument
needs: ["build_develop"]
And the thing is that deploy_develop_telegram is never called after build_develop successfully finishes. I don’t even see deploy_develop_telegram in GitLab dashboard. I tried different approaches also with rules and needs but nothing seems to be working. No error messages, nothing, looks like GitLab just ignores this job.
What am I doing wrong?
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Answers
The issue is related to job rules. Somehow, GitLab CI ignores dependant jobs if their
rulesblock doesn't match the block from the job they depend on. So solution for this will be just adding:to
deploy_develop_telegramjob.The only problem is that I don't understand the reason behind this, cause for me, it should not work like this, because
needsalready defines the actual "rule" for this job. If somebody can explain this better, please leave a comment.In what workflow do you expect this pipeline to run successfully ?
To me the rules for
build_main andbuild_developare preventingdeploy_develop_telegram` from running.Furthermore, you repeat both build jobs with no visible differences in the job’s script. Perhaps you should move the rules in
deploy_develop_telegramjob to prevent it from running instead.