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Jens A. Koch

05 Sep, 2016 12:24 AM

The following error message isn't very helpful and now i'm simply guessing around what Appveyor expects or accepts:

"Packaging artifacts...Pattern contains invalid characters."

It would be nice to provide a more detailed or guiding message, which shows the position of the error.

"Packaging artifacts...Pattern contains invalid characters."
"Error: Line 86 - Character 20"

or

" -file: "/foo&/(.zip""
" ^ invalid character"

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 05 Sep, 2016 04:43 AM

   

   Sure, what was the path/character that caused that error?

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2. 2 Posted by Jens A. Koch on 05 Sep, 2016 09:26 AM

   

   I still haven't found the cause for the error.
   I'm using

   after_build:
     - dir C:\projects\build\Release /s

   artifacts:
     - path: C:\projects\build\$(configuration)
       name: ReleaseArtifact

   $(configuration) is also used in the manual.
   Do i need to single quote it?

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 05 Sep, 2016 05:16 PM

   

   Path should be relative to the build root folder:

   artifacts: 
     - path: $(configuration) 
       name: ReleaseArtifact
   

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4. 4 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on 08 Sep, 2016 02:29 AM

   

   Please watch this https://github.com/appveyor/ci/issues/1023 issue. It is little different angle of view but should improve experience too.

   --ilya.

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5. 5 Posted by Jens A. Koch on 09 Sep, 2016 11:07 AM

   

   I would suggest to lift the restriction that paths need to relative to the build root folder and allow absolute paths on artifacts: path:

   And here is the next error message to improve:

   "Command exited with code 255"

   Which command exited and why?

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6. 6 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on 09 Sep, 2016 06:09 PM

   

   Hi Jens,

   We created separate issue for this https://github.com/appveyor/ci/issues/1026

   For now we just made error message very clear.

   What about Command exited with code <code_returned>, it is always from the last command and it should be displayed in log…

   Thank you,
   Ilya.

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7. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 02:08 AM.