Create Azure DevOps release without artifacts via Rest API

sukoneck Published at Dev

sukoneck

I am building a JSON body based on the documentation. It looks like this (copied from the documentation):

{
  "definitionId": 1,
  "description": "Creating Sample release",
  "artifacts": [
    {
      "alias": "Fabrikam.CI",
      "instanceReference": {
        "id": "2",
        "name": null
      }
    }
  ],
  "isDraft": false,
  "reason": "none",
  "manualEnvironments": null
}

However, there aren't any artifacts for this release. It's just stages that need to run. I have tried setting the "artifacts" value to null and false. I also tried removing the "artifacts" key altogether, like this:

{
  "definitionId": 1,
  "description": "Creating Sample release",
  "isDraft": false,
  "reason": "none",
  "manualEnvironments": null
}

Unfortunately, all of these guesses just throw one of these errors:

The artifact alias cannot be empty. Specify a valid artifact alias and try again.

Release pipeline name cannot be empty. Specify a name and try again.

How do I create a release that doesn't include artifacts using the REST API?

Lance Li-MSFT

How do I create a release that doesn't include artifacts using the REST API?

Just leave it blank and it will work. Use format like this:

{
  "definitionId": 1,
  "description": "Creating Sample release",
  "artifacts": [],
  "isDraft": false,
  "reason": "none",
  "manualEnvironments": null
}

If the response is 200 OK, it means you run the rest api successfully. (This api is used to create release instead of creating release pipeline, you should know that! )

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