Troubleshooting passing pipeline values within an orb to a job

Overview

You can pass the pipeline values within an orb to jobs. This article explains how to troubleshoot an issue when passing the values.

Cases and steps

• Case 1

You may see the error message below on a job result. 

Job: command not found

This error may happen because the bash interpreter is treating "$fail_only"== as a command named since there's no space after the variable. Please check if there is a missing space in this case.

if [ "$BUILD_STATUS" == "success" ] && [ "$fail_only"== "false" ]; then

• Case 2

You can confirm that the value is passed, but the result is not what you expected, especially for a boolean value. For instance, false is passed to the variable $fail_only, but the following conditional statement is not executed.

if [ "$fail_only" == "false" ]; then

It may happen because the boolean values true and false can be interpreted as 1 and 0 instead. You can resolve this issue by comparing 0 instead of false.