[FEATURE]: Be able to run view on all calls about azuredevopsextensions HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi!

Well, I think this would only be relevant for pull request descriptions and tags. Both comments and statuses contains a bit more of a complex data structure that would be hard to expose in a good way. This could of course just be exposed directly as the JSON content returned, but then I think a custom script would be more appropriate and not an extension for extracting the needed data. Very large response objects here could also be difficult to expose correctly.

• Example of PR status structure: Examples
• Example of PR thread structure: Examples

In the current extension state, I can add this for tags/labels and description, but I will need to do some more research and thinking before considering it for statuses and comments.

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Yeah I agree, we only needed it for the description initially, not sure if would get used much beyond tags/description

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I will take a look at it over the weekend. The extension already fetches the description and processes it, so will only need to expose this out. Will probably be done the same way as tag check by setting a custom variable.

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Hi,

I added a new action, view, to PullRequestDescription that can now be used to load the description of the pull request into a variable. You can find this in [email protected] - [email protected].

steps:
  - task: PullRequestDescription@0
    name: setDescriptionVariable
    inputs:
      action: 'view'
      outputVariable: 'PullRequest.DescriptionContent'
      isOutput: true
      stripIdentifiers: false
  - script: echo $(setDescriptionVariable.PullRequest.DescriptionContent)

PullRequestDescription uses some interal modifiers to know where to append content to. If you wish to remove these before setting the variable, set stripIdentifiers to true. See extension page for information.

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