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Jonas

16 Jul, 2015 06:39 PM

As seen here: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/jpommerening/node-netif/build/1.0.5...

I've been banging my head against this part for a while now, have seen some related posts but don't seem to get any closer to the solution.

I'm trying to deploy a node.js binding to GitHub. Here's part of my appveyor.yml:

artifacts:
  - path: ls build/stage/$(APPVEYOR_REPO_NAME)/releases/download/$(APPVEYOR_REPO_TAG_NAME)/*.tar.gz
    name:binding
deploy:
  - provider: GitHub
    artifact: binding
    ...

I'd expect that to match (in my case) files like build/stage/jpommerening/node-netif/releases/download/v0.2.0-rc6/node-v11-win-ia32.tar.gz.

I've tried replacing the variables with patterns, omitting the name, backward slashes … I must have missed something.

Halp?

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 16 Jul, 2015 06:48 PM

   

   Try this:

   artifacts:
     - path: build/stage/$(APPVEYOR_REPO_NAME)/releases/download/$(APPVEYOR_REPO_TAG_NAME)/*.tar.gz
       name:binding
   

   Also, make sure the path is correct by running something like:

   after_build:
     - dir build\stage\%APPVEYOR_REPO_NAME%\releases\download\%APPVEYOR_REPO_TAG_NAME%
   

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2. 2 Posted by Jonas on 16 Jul, 2015 07:20 PM

   

   Argh, I'm sorry … made a mistake pasting/editing the relevant parts for the post. The ls slipped in there because I had a line pretty much like you suggested but I had it in the before_deploy section.

   Thanks for the quick reply, though!

   Mayba part of the problem is that I was doing the packaging in before_deploy … but the artifacts get picked up before that, right? So at that point the directory probably does not exist yet.
   It looked like this:
   

   before_deploy:
     - npm run-script package
     - IF NOT "%APPVEYOR_REPO_TAG_NAME%" == "" ( dir build/stage/%APPVEYOR_REPO_NAME%/releases/download/%APPVEYOR_REPO_TAG_NAME% )
   artifacts:
     - ...
   

   I updated my config, here's a copy:
   

   install:
     - other stuff here
     - npm run-script package
     - IF NOT "%APPVEYOR_REPO_TAG_NAME%" == "" ( ls build/stage/%APPVEYOR_REPO_NAME%/releases/download/%APPVEYOR_REPO_TAG_NAME% )
   build: off
   artifacts:
     - path: build/stage/$(APPVEYOR_REPO_NAME)/releases/download/$(APPVEYOR_REPO_TAG_NAME)/*.tar.gz
       name: binding
   deploy:
     - provider: GitHub
       draft: false
       artifact: binding
       prerelease: false
       auth_token:
         secure: Y4nMpyIHHm1pH9cekqL5vj6xGSs98R3rgnQVd4awCWrxaO6qq53Ec007qm96lWE6
       on:
         appveyor_repo_tag: true
   

   I'm using ls because dir complains about my forward slashes. I'd use backslashes but %APPVEYOR_REPO_NAME% contains a forward slash. The step that generates the .tar.gz file is npm run-script package.

   Sadly, this did not work either. Still the same "Pattern contains invalid characters" message. Here's the build: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/jpommerening/node-netif/build/1.0.6...
   As you can see, the file seems to be right there inside the directory, but somethings seems to be the matter with my file pattern.

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 16 Jul, 2015 07:27 PM

   

   Oh, looks like / is considered as bad character :)

   Try this:

   artifacts:
     - path: build\stage\$(APPVEYOR_REPO_NAME)\releases\download\$(APPVEYOR_REPO_TAG_NAME)\*.tar.gz
   

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4. 4 Posted by Jonas on 16 Jul, 2015 08:37 PM

   

   Yay, that works if I replace $(APPVEYOR_REPO_NAME) with the actual repository name (the variable contains a forward slash). Awesome, thank you! :D

   Now, just one more thing … is there a way to substitute the slash inside a variable with a backslash? I would like to avoid repeating the repo name inside the config…

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5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 16 Jul, 2015 11:03 PM

   

   Sure, just add this to install section:

   - ps: $env:APPVEYOR_REPO_PATH = $env:APPVEYOR_REPO_NAME.replace('/', '\')
   

   then use APPVEYOR_REPO_PATH instead of APPVEYOR_REPO_NAME.

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6. 6 Posted by Jonas on 16 Jul, 2015 11:56 PM

   

   That does the job!

   Thank you so much, couldn't have done it without your help! :)

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7. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 01:57 AM.