TFS API Create Release with powershell

问题

I'm trying to queue a build and create a release using powershell. I'm able to successfully queue a build but unfortunately, the Continuous Deployment is not being triggered for the release.

My hope is that I can do both of these in a powershell script that will allow me to release the application. I'm using TFS 2015 Update 3

I've been working from an article posted here: http://blog.nwcadence.com/vststfs-rest-api-the-basics-and-working-with-builds-and-releases/

In summary in performing the following:

Calling api to return a list of release
Performing a query of the list of releases and returning the id based on the release name
Setting the release definition id
Calling the api to return the specific release definition info
Setting the alias for the artifacts
Setting the artifacts id
Setting the ReleaseUri
Constructing the Json string for artifacts
Setting json with the combination of required info
Calling api to kick off the creation of a release passing in the json

My script:

$releaseDef = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -UseDefaultCredentials -Uri "$Uri/$defaultCollection/$TeamProject/_apis/release/definitions?api-version=2.2-preview.1"
$id = $releaseDef.value | Where-Object { $_.name -eq $releaseName} | select id
$releaseDefId = $id.id

$release = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -UseDefaultCredentials -ContentType "application/json" -Uri "$Uri/$defaultCollection/$TeamProject/_apis/release/definitions/$releaseDefId`?api-version=2.2-preview.1"

$alias = $release.artifacts.alias
$aliasId = $release.artifacts.id

$releaseUri = "$Uri/$defaultCollection/$TeamProject/_apis/release/releases?api-version=2.2-preview.1"

$jsonReleaseString = "{""alias"": ""$alias"", ""instanceReference"" : ""id"" : ""$aliasId""}}"

$jsonRelease = @"
{
    "definitionId": $releaseDefId,
    "description": $buildNbr,
    "artifacts": [
    $jsonReleaseString
    ]
}

$releaseResponse = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post -UseDefaultCredentials -ContentType "application/json" -Uri $releaseUri -Body $jsonRelease

All appears to be ok until I hit the last statement. The error I'm receiving is:

{"$id":"1","innerException":null,"message":"VS402903: The parameter with name releaseStartMetadata should be an ReleaseStartMetadata, but the specified value is not convertible to 
ReleaseStartMetadata","typeName":"System.InvalidOperationException, mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089","typeKey":"InvalidOperationException","errorCode":0,"eventId":0}
At line:1 char:12
+ $release = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post -UseDefaultCredentials -ContentType "a ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-RestMethod], WebException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeRestMethodCommand

回答1:

I could think of two issue here:-

In case your release definition is linked with some artifact then instanceReference.id should be the version id of the artifact. I meant it should be build number, if the linked artifact is build.
You need to pass instanceReference.name as well. Here it should be build name.

With TFS17, #2 above should be optional.

回答2:

I found the answer. There were two issue. One required placing all values in quotes"". The other was related to the buildid and name as name is required for on prem but was using wrong id for artifacts. Here is my json:

{ "definitionId": 17, "description": "ContentManagement-Dev", "artifacts": [ {"alias": "ContentManagement-Dev", "instanceReference" : { "id": "12569", "name": "ContentManagement-Dev_1.0.0.12569"} } ] }

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41216277/tfs-api-create-release-with-powershell

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