Azure-devops-docs: Doc doesn't explain the difference between DownloadPipelineArtifact and DownloadBuildArtifacts

[abatishchev]

To my understanding, DownloadBuildArtifacts@0 is legacy and DownloadPipelineArtifact@2 is preferred.

However, I'm getting the following warning when using the _latter_:

[warning]Please use Download Build Artifact task for downloading Build Artifact type artifact. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/download-build-artifacts?view=azure-devops

The documentation for neither tasks explains which I need to use, when and why.

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• ID: b03d67d0-8738-72e6-dbe7-324c1784d4fc
• Version Independent ID: bbb4d774-cd98-3ecb-7ccf-5f49e6f2b425
• Content: Download Pipeline Artifacts task - Azure Pipelines
• Content Source: docs/pipelines/tasks/utility/download-pipeline-artifact.md
• Product: devops
• Technology: devops-cicd-tasks
• GitHub Login: @vijayma
• Microsoft Alias: vijayma

[msebolt]

@abatishchev Thank you for the question.

The recommended approach is to use Download Pipeline Artifact task, please try using it with the Publish Pipeline Artifact task to eliminate this error.

Also, as a good comparison between the two, see this post on Stack Overflow.

Assigning this to the author for review of the current documentation.

[abatishchev]

@msebolt thanks for the info! Did I understand correctly that the warning is misleading: instead of switching from DownloadPipeline to DownloadBuild, I rather should switch from UploadBuild to UploadPipeline?

[abatishchev]

@msebolt, @vijayma gentle ping.

Right now if artifacts were uploaded using legacy "upload build" but downloaded using modern "download pipeline", the latter will show wrong, misleading warning message:

[warning]Please use Download Build Artifact task for downloading Build Artifact type artifact.

Instead it should display this one:

[warning]Please use Publish Pipeline Artifact task for downloading artifacts using Download Pipeline artifacts.

[abatishchev]

@msebolt, @vijayma gentle ping.

[cxwtool]

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[abatishchev]

@msebolt, @vijayma so nothing has changed in 180 days even and now the issue is just closed by a bot. How cool is this?