1649562 - test-action-callback executed locally defaults to mozilla-central making local development hard

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: Task Configuration, enhancement)

Description

[Armen [:armenzg]]

While doing development for the new backfill action I determined that calling ./mach test-action-callback always defaults to central even if the task or task-group you want to act on belongs to a different repo.

In order to handle this I added some code snippet in the action itself to support local development.

We should move this to somewhere more central.

    task = get_task_definition(task_id)
    # This helps with local development since the default parameters passed are not associated to
    # the task. It works as expected in production
    if not os.environ.get('TASKCLUSTER_PROXY_URL'):
        # If the user does not specify the task group id then extract it from the task id
        if not task_group_id:
            task_group_id = task['taskGroupId']
        parameters = get_parameters(task_group_id)

Comment 1

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal]]

I don't think we'll get around to this. Likely it will only be fixed the next time someone runs into this pain, at which point the chances of them finding a bug are small and they'll likely come up with their own workaround.