Azure-pipelines-tasks: Cancel build from a task

[LiohAu]

Hello,

I have a TFS Project that uses only 1 git repository for multiple projects.
We would like to use continuous integration triggering system but we cannot use path conditionals (which are not available for on premises TFS 2015 if I understood correctly).
Since any push in any repository launch the builds of all the projects, I would like to develop a task that cancel the build depending on the updated files path or the author of the push.

But is there a way to cancel the build process from a task ?

If not I may use a git push event service hook and the REST API to launch the build..

[bryanmacfarlane]

Vsts online has that feature now. TFS.vnext which is coming soon in rc1 has that feature

No you cannot cancel a build from a task

[PeterVeenendaal]

We fixed the problem for TFS-2017 on-premise with the agent 2...

We add the following text to the task:
Write-Host "##vso[task.setvariable variable=agent.jobstatus;]canceled"
Write-Host "##vso[task.complete result=Canceled;]DONE"

And the task and build were canceled.

[RES-TophWells]

Thanks for your answer Peter, that's very useful.

[ManasaSathyanarayan]

How to Cancel the task and make build also Cancel so that it does not move to next stage?

[doggy8088]

We fixed the problem for TFS-2017 on-premise with the agent 2...

We add the following text to the task:
Write-Host "##vso[task.setvariable variable=agent.jobstatus;]canceled"
Write-Host "##vso[task.complete result=Canceled;]DONE"

And the task and build were canceled.

I tried this one, but I've got this message:

##[warning]Overwriting readonly task variable 'agent.jobstatus'. This behavior will be disabled in the future. See https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-yaml/blob/master/design/readonly-variables.md for details.

[doggy8088]

It's getting error now.

Unable to process command '##vso[task.setvariable variable=agent.jobstatus;]canceled' successfully. Please reference documentation (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=817296)
Overwriting readonly variable 'agent.jobstatus' is not permitted. See https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-yaml/blob/master/design/readonly-variables.md for details.

[doggy8088]

I've just posted a new article shows how to deal with this issue. (In Chinese)

如何有條件的控制 Azure Pipelines 的執行流程