How to skip specific Execution Plan Steps? - deployit

Question

In the TaskBlockService there is a POST call that one or more steps should be skipped. There is not a good example given how the posted XML (List of String) the paths of the steps to skip.
Tried the following content for the POSTed data:
curl -X POST https://xldeploy.company.com/deployit/tasks/v2/5e917094-d054-4cc7-940e-89d851ca225a/skip
File remove-steps.xml content - sample 1:
<list>
<string>0_1_1</string>
</list>
File remove-steps.xml content - sample 2:
<list>
<string>0-1-1</string>
</list>

Answer 1

The first format you list is right, but you have to make sure you're using a step path and not just the path to a block.
Lets say you get the blocks from your deployment plan with this call.
curl -uadmin:password http://localhost:4516/deployit/tasks/v2/28830810-5104-4ab9-9826-22f66dee265d
This will produce the result:
<task id="28830810-5104-4ab9-9826-22f66dee265d" failures="0" state="PENDING" owner="admin">
<description>Initial deployment of Environments/local/TestApp001</description>
<activeBlocks/>
<metadata>
<environment>local</environment>
<taskType>INITIAL</taskType>
<environment_id>Environments/local</environment_id>
<application>TestApp001</application>
<version>1.0</version>
</metadata>
<block id="0" state="PENDING" description="" root="true">
<block id="0_1" state="PENDING" description="Deploy" phase="true">
<block id="0_1_1" state="PENDING" description="Deploy TestApp001 1.0 on environment local"/>
</block>
</block>
<dependencies/>
If you want to see the steps in block 0_1_1 then you can use this rest call to get the steps.
curl -uadmin:password http://local6/deployit/tasks/v2/28830810-5104-4ab9-9826-22f66dee265d/block/0_1_1/step
<block id="0_1_1" state="PENDING" description="Deploy TestApp001 1.0 on environment local" current="0">
<step failures="0" state="PENDING" description="Execute Command"/>
<step failures="0" state="PENDING" description="Copy File001.txt to Infrastructure/localhost"/>
The steps are numbered within the block starting from 1. So if you are want to skip the step - Copy File001.txt to Infrastructure/localhost the step path is 0_1_1_2. Your XML will look like:
<list>
<string>0_1_1_2</string>
</list>