How to run manual validation task in azure devops based on some variable set in previous job

Question

I am trying to create 2 jobs in single devops pipeline. In first one i am reading some json file and setting some task variable and wanted to run the manual validation task in another job based on the task variable i setup in previous job. However i am not able to refer that variable in second job, need some help here

Answer 1

Hi vijay,

Can you share your code to help you? I can bring you an example of pipeline with powershell on jobs and sharing variables between jobs. Starting point with the file example.json:

{
  "someKey": "expectedValue",
  "anotherKey": "anotherValue"
}

This is the pipeline that you can test Its working fine:

trigger: none

pool:
  vmImage: 'windows-latest'

jobs:
- job: Job1
  displayName: 'Job 1: Read JSON and set variable'
  steps:
  - powershell: |
      # Read the JSON file
      $json = Get-Content -Path example.json | ConvertFrom-Json
      # Get a value from the JSON file
      $value = $json.someKey
      # Set the value as a variable
      Write-Host "##vso[task.setvariable variable=someVariable;isOutput=true;]$value"
    name: setVariableStep

- job: Job2
  displayName: 'Job 2: Validate variable'
  dependsOn: Job1
  variables:
    someVariableFromJob1: $[ dependencies.Job1.outputs['setVariableStep.someVariable'] ]
  steps:
  - pwsh: |
      Write-Host "The variable from Job 1 is: $(someVariableFromJob1)"
      # Validate the variable
      if ("$(someVariableFromJob1)" -eq "expectedValue") {
        Write-Host "The variable is as expected."
      } else {
        Write-Host "The variable is not as expected."
      }

If you run this pipeline will compare the expectedValue on the json file with the job2. Let me know if this help you. Luis

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