Provide a Wait/Lock like construct in the Build Worker API for use across multiple concurrent jobs

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matt_mckinstry

22 Jun, 2018 07:46 AM

Scenario:
Subscription has multiple concurrent jobs, Project has a build matrix with 5 configurations to build e.g. spawns 5 build jobs.
The first build job makes changes to files in source control that all other build jobs should wait for prior to cloning and continuing build.

It is possible to roll your own version of this using powershell and some form of remote file or db storage. However, i feel it would be a great feature to add to the Build Worker API, obviously scoped to the current build.

Add-AppveyorWaitLock -Name <string> -Details <string>
Details param would allow some useful information to be shared amongst build jobs

<string> Get-AppveyorWaitLock -Name <string> -Wait <int> -RetryCount <int>
Returns Details
Internally this would Sleep/Retry until the lock is found, or Fail the build if it exceeds the RetryCount

  1. 1 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on 26 Jun, 2018 03:36 AM

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    Thank you for this scenario. Please watch this issue

  2. 2 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on 26 Jun, 2018 03:39 AM

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  3. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 27 Aug, 2018 08:42 PM.

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