.. _workflow-event-reactions:
Event reactions
===============
The ``event_reactions`` field on a workflow is a dictionary mapping events
to a list of actions. Each action is described with a dictionary where the
``action`` key defines the action to perform and where the remaining keys
are used to define the specifics of the action to be performed. See section
below for details. The supported events are the following:
* ``on_creation``: event triggered when the work request is created
* ``on_unblock``: event triggered when the work request is unblocked
* ``on_success``: event triggered when the work request completes
successfully
* ``on_failure``: event triggered when the work request fails or errors
out
Supported actions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. _action-send-notification:
``send-notification``
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sends a notification of the event using an existing notification channel.
* ``channel``: name of the notification channel to use
* ``data``: parameters for the notification method
.. _action-update-collection-with-artifacts:
``update-collection-with-artifacts``
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Adds or replaces artifact-based collection items with artifacts generated
by the current work request.
* ``collection`` (:ref:`lookup-single`, required): collection to update
* ``name_template`` (string, optional): template used to generate the name for the collection
item associated to a given artifact. Uses the ``str.format`` templating
syntax (with variables inside curly braces).
* ``variables`` (dict, optional): definition of variables to prepare to be able to
compute the name for the collection item. Keys and values in this
dictionary are interpreted as follows:
* Keys beginning with ``$`` are handled using `JSON paths
`_. The part of the key after
the ``$`` is the name of the variable, and the value is a JSON path
query to execute against the ``data`` dictionary of the target artifact
in order to compute the value of the variable.
* Keys that do not begin with ``$`` simply set the variable named by the
key to the value, which is a constant string.
* It is an error to specify keys for the same variable name both with and
without an initial ``$``.
* ``artifact_filters`` (dict, required): this parameter makes it possible
to identify a subset of generated artifacts to add to the collection.
Each key-value represents a specific Django's ORM filter query against
the Artifact model so that one can run
``work_request.artifact_set.filter(**artifact_filters)`` to
identify the desired set of artifacts.
.. note::
When the ``name_template`` key is not provided, it is expected that
the collection will compute the name for the new artifact-based
collection item. Some collection categories might not even allow you to
override the name.
.. note::
After any JSON path expansion, the ``variables`` field is passed to the
collection manager's ``add_artifact``, so it may use those expanded
variables to compute its own item names or per-item data.
As an example, you could register all the binary packages having
``Section: python`` and a dependency on libpython3.12 out of a ``sbuild``
task with names like ``$PACKAGE_$VERSION`` by using this action::
action: 'update-collection-with-artifacts'
artifact_filters:
category: 'debian:binary-package'
data__deb_fields__Section: 'python'
data__deb_fields__Depends__contains: 'libpython3.12'
collection: 'internal@collections'
name_template: '{package}_{version}'
variables:
'$package': 'deb_fields.Package'
'$version': 'deb_fields.Version'
.. _action-update-collection-with-data:
``update-collection-with-data``
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Adds or replaces a bare collection item based on the current work request.
This is similar to :ref:`action-update-collection-with-artifacts`, except
that of course it does not refer to artifacts. This can be used in
situations where no artifact is available, such as in ``on_creation``
events.
* ``collection`` (:ref:`lookup-single`, required): collection to update
* ``category`` (string, required): the category of the item to add
* ``name_template`` (string, optional): template used to generate the name
for the collection item. Uses the ``str.format`` templating syntax (with
variables inside curly braces, referring to keys in ``data``).
* ``data`` (dict, optional): data for the collection item. This may also be
used to compute the name for the item, either via substitution into
``name_template`` or by rules defined by the collection manager.
.. note::
When the ``name_template`` key is not provided, it is expected that the
collection will compute the name for the new bare collection item. Some
collection categories might not even allow you to override the name.
.. _action-retry-with-delays:
``retry-with-delays``
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This action is used in ``on_failure`` event reactions. It causes the work
request to be retried automatically with various parameters, adding a
dependency on a newly-created :ref:`task-delay`.
The current delay scheme is limited and simplistic, but we expect that more
complex schemes can be added as variations on the parameters to this action.
* ``delays`` (list, required): a list of delays to apply to each successive
retry; each item is an integer suffixed with ``m`` for minutes, ``h`` for
hours, ``d`` for days, or ``w`` for weeks.
The workflow data model for work requests gains a ``retry_count`` field,
defaulting to 0 and incrementing on each successive retry. When this action
runs, it creates a :ref:`task-delay` with its ``delay_until`` field set to
the current time plus the item from ``delays`` corresponding to the current
retry count, adds a dependency from its work request to that, and marks its
work request as blocked on that dependency. If the retry count is greater
than the number of items in ``delays``, then the action does nothing.
.. _action-record-in-task-history:
``record-in-task-history``
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This action is meant to be used as an event reaction to store the current
task run in a :ref:`debusine:task-history `
collection. The following fields are supported:
* ``subject`` (optional, defaults to value stored in dynamic_data): the
subject string used to record the statistics
* ``context`` (optional, defaults to value stored in dynamic_data): the
*runtime context* string used to record the statistics
When the action is executed, it looks up the :ref:`debusine:task-history
` singleton collection corresponding to the work
request's workspace, and adds a new entry to it. If there is no such
collection, it does nothing.
.. note::
This action is not meant to be manually added on each work request.
Instead it should be automatically executed upon completion of each work
request.