GitLab · Arazzo Workflow

GitLab Trigger a Manual CI Job and Poll to Completion

Version 1.0.0

Start a manual CI job, then poll its status until it finishes.

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trigger-manual-job-and-poll
Run a manual CI job and poll its status until it completes.
Triggers a manual job, then polls the single-job endpoint, looping while the job is still running and ending when it reaches a terminal status.
2 steps inputs: jobId, privateToken, projectId outputs: finalStatus, finishedAt
1
playJob
Trigger the manual job so it starts running.
2
pollJob
Read the job status; if still running, loop back to poll again, otherwise finish.

Source API Descriptions

Arazzo Workflow Specification

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arazzo: 1.0.1
info:
  title: GitLab Trigger a Manual CI Job and Poll to Completion
  summary: Start a manual CI job, then poll its status until it finishes.
  description: >-
    A CI/CD driver flow. The workflow runs a manual job in a project pipeline and
    then repeatedly reads the job until it leaves the running state, branching to
    re-poll while still running and ending once a terminal status is reached.
    Every step spells out its request inline so the flow can be read and executed
    without opening the underlying OpenAPI description.
  version: 1.0.0
  x-realizes-capability-ids:
  - BC-4200.40
  x-capability-derivation:
    method: 'deterministic join: sourceDescriptions -> per-tag OpenAPI -> tag/capability edge. No classification at this step.'
    min_confidence: 0.7
    sources:
    - capability_id: BC-4200.40
      capability_name: Software Construction Management
      spec: gitlab-projects-api-openapi.yml
      confidence: 0.8
    model: Turbo EA Capabilities by Vincent Verdet — Turbo EA, https://github.com/vincentmakes/turbo-ea-capabilities, CC BY 4.0
sourceDescriptions:
- name: projectsApi
  url: ../openapi/gitlab-projects-api-openapi.yml
  type: openapi
workflows:
- workflowId: trigger-manual-job-and-poll
  summary: Run a manual CI job and poll its status until it completes.
  description: >-
    Triggers a manual job, then polls the single-job endpoint, looping while the
    job is still running and ending when it reaches a terminal status.
  inputs:
    type: object
    required:
    - privateToken
    - projectId
    - jobId
    properties:
      privateToken:
        type: string
        description: GitLab Private-Token used to authenticate the API calls.
      projectId:
        type: integer
        description: The ID of the project.
      jobId:
        type: integer
        description: The ID of the manual job to run.
  steps:
  - stepId: playJob
    description: Trigger the manual job so it starts running.
    operationId: triggerManualJob
    parameters:
    - name: Private-Token
      in: header
      value: $inputs.privateToken
    - name: id
      in: path
      value: $inputs.projectId
    - name: job_id
      in: path
      value: $inputs.jobId
    successCriteria:
    - condition: $statusCode == 200
  - stepId: pollJob
    description: >-
      Read the job status; if still running, loop back to poll again, otherwise
      finish.
    operationId: getSingleJob
    parameters:
    - name: Private-Token
      in: header
      value: $inputs.privateToken
    - name: id
      in: path
      value: $inputs.projectId
    - name: job_id
      in: path
      value: $inputs.jobId
    successCriteria:
    - condition: $statusCode == 200
    outputs:
      jobStatus: $response.body#/status
      finishedAt: $response.body#/finished_at
    onSuccess:
    - name: stillRunning
      type: goto
      stepId: pollJob
      criteria:
      - context: $response.body
        condition: $.status == 'running' || $.status == 'pending' || $.status == 'created'
        type: jsonpath
    - name: terminal
      type: end
      criteria:
      - context: $response.body
        condition: $.status != 'running' && $.status != 'pending' && $.status != 'created'
        type: jsonpath
  outputs:
    finalStatus: $steps.pollJob.outputs.jobStatus
    finishedAt: $steps.pollJob.outputs.finishedAt

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