Can you have an && condition with Buildforge Conditional steps?
In need to ensure that two variables have values before executing a command. I can test if either of them have content, but when i attempt: (${GROUP_NAME} !="" && $BD=True) the valuation is always False. If it is possible what am I doing wrong?
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Hello,
I see your issue. When using a single evaluation for the condition it chooses between the command and else command properly. Whenever using && it always evaluates to false and instead of the else it skips the step just like what you are running into now.
After taking a deeper look it appears it takes True=True and compares it to com.hsbc.ds != ' ' as strings which will never be the same. So it always evaluates to false in which it should run the else command. In all my testing it always did run the else command when the values equaled false.
What I would recommend. Is creating a small batch script that does an if statement to compare the two. Then it will either return 0 or 1. Then plugin that into a conditional step and say true(expression) and if true it runs the command if false it runs the else. I was able to get around doing this.
I was playing with K shell and it was something like this.
if [[ $hello = hello && $name = "ryan" ]];then return 0 fi return 1 I hope that helps. Thanks! |
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You are welcome to open an RFE against this type of functionality, but the condition portion of the step only supports a single condition. It's not that it's a defect but more an enhancement to have the condition handle multiple evaluations.
You can open an RFE here. Here you can track the RFE and make comments and allow others to like your request etc.
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=changeRequestLanding
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Oh Yes, I forgot to mention. I was talking to someone about this and the workaround would be to create two steps. Evaluate one condition. Then the next step evaluates the second condition and the third step would evaluate the results of step 1 and step 2. This would be an easy way to go about it. This way you could use libraries to call functionality of what to do in what type of situation. I think this is probably the best way to do it.
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