Add option to pass custom variables to the cli

Question

Add option to pass custom variables to the cli

Closed this issue 13 days ago · 6 comments

Answer 1 · 2024-12-04T08:47:26.000Z

Could you elaborate what kind of variables your are looking for?

Answer 2 · 2024-12-04T09:02:49.000Z

hi @anbraten, I had the impression that woodpeckerci allows the passage of custom variables to the pipeline, as indicated by the web interface when manually running a pipeline. This issue was to suggest adding a feature to the CLI to allow the same.

Now, I am not sure my understanding is correct anymore as I can't find any reference of how and where to set and use those variables.

Answer 3 · 2024-12-04T09:09:17.000Z

I guess --env is what you are looking for: https://woodpecker-ci.org/docs/cli#exec

Answer 4 · 2024-12-04T09:16:26.000Z

thanks @anbraten. A bit irrelevant to the original issue, but I'm wondering whether it's possible to define custom variables in the pipeline definition and interpolate them in the pipeline steps?

Answer 5 · 2024-12-04T22:39:28.000Z

@anbraten Can we reopen this issue please? custom variables are different from environment variables in woodpecker as far as I can understand. Also, environment variables can not be used inside a workflow-wide evaluate condition, can they?

Answer 6 · 2024-12-05T16:22:51.000Z

Also, environment variables can not be used inside a workflow-wide evaluate condition, can they?

They should be usable.

custom variables are different from environment variables

not quite sure what you mean by custom variables

Mabye #3661 is sth you are looking for