Helper miss method make job go fail

[Cheava]

When I want to use Module's OUT to add param in CFG, like below,

        steps {
          MPLPipelineConfigMerge(MPLModule())
        }

jenkins's job go failure, the error message is attached below

groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: static com.griddynamics.devops.mpl.Helper.configEntrySet() is applicable for argument types: (java.util.LinkedHashMap) values: [[...]]]

I have view the source code, this error is caused by this line.
https://github.com/griddynamics/mpl/blame/master/src/com/griddynamics/devops/mpl/MPLConfig.groovy#L89
The missing method was remove on this #46 .
Because the method is missing, I have to uncomment the " Helper.configEntrySet(this.@config) ".
Finally, the job run well . But CFG seems no change after merging with OUT.
Can you have a look on this code?
And could you tell why CFG seems no change after merging with OUT?

[sparshev]

Hi @Cheava ,

Yeah, you can't merge the entire OUT to the existing pipeline config. Sorry for such mistake - it was not added to the documentation. The method MPLPipelineConfigMerge was designed to be used as:

MPLPipelineConfigMerge(MPLModule().key)

Means you have to put data to specific OUT.key value and after that use such key to access the data and merge it.

The MPLConfig object denies to use config object for iteration - you have to know the first key you need. After that first key will return you dict/array/value or null - which you will be able to use further in your logic. Otherwise the logic in your pipeline will miss the important information - what exactly you doing there.

Also I think I will add some documentation about that and some checks to tell what's exactly wrong.

[sparshev]

About the second part - when the CFG is not changed after merging - could you please describe steps to reproduce? It's quite hard to understand which CFG should be changed.

[sparshev]

Removing of the Helper.configEntrySet method looks wrong, but overall - you will face the same result, beacuse you trying to iterate over MPLConfig object - and such action was intentionally denied.

[Cheava]

Thank you for the answer. I will try the usage you mentioned later.
The second question is based on my view of MPLPipelineConfigMerge, I think MPLPipelineConfigMerge is aim to merge OUT and CFG, to update/add some CFG propertity, from OUT. I don't know if I misunderstand the usage.

The code I write like below

### Build.groovy
......
//deliver cutomer  value
OUT.'project.type' = 'Docker'


### Deploy.groovy
......
//check if the key is exist
if(CFG.'project.type' == 'Docker'){
......
}

### NestedPipeline.groovy
.....
   stage( 'Build' ) {
        when { expression { MPLModuleEnabled() } }
        steps {
          MPLPipelineConfigMerge(MPLModule())
        }
      }
   stage( 'Deploy' ) {
        when { expression { MPLModuleEnabled() } }
        steps {
          MPLPipelineConfigMerge(MPLModule())
        }
      }
.....

[Cheava]

I just try the code 'MPLPipelineConfigMerge(MPLModule().key)' as below:

### Build.groovy
......
//deliver cutomer  value
OUT.'project.type' = 'Docker'
OUT.'project.home' = '/usr/local'


### Deploy.groovy
......
echo "${CFG.project}"
......
}

### NestedPipeline.groovy
.....
   stage( 'Build' ) {
        when { expression { MPLModuleEnabled() } }
        steps {
          MPLPipelineConfigMerge(MPLModule().project)
        }
      }
   stage( 'Deploy' ) {
        when { expression { MPLModuleEnabled() } }
        steps {
          MPLPipelineConfigMerge(MPLModule().project)
        }
      }
.....

According to the echo log, CFG.project is 'null' .

[sparshev]

Hi @Cheava

Right, it will be null, because only the value of OUT.project is merged. Means in the CFG you will see CFG.type and CFG.home. Hopefully you got the idea: if you want to see CFG.project in Deploy - you need to put project into OUT.build for example and use it to merge.

[Cheava]

Yeah, I have tried the way you said, It works.
Thank you.