I had the use case of a lot of projects sharing the same job template
that uses a lot of variables. That requires each project to define all
the variables even if they are mostly identical.
This patch propose to define varialbes as 'defaults' and have them
applied in the job-template magically (oneline diffs always have that
feeling to me).
So instead of:
- project:
name: project1
arch: amd64
builder: debuild
lintian: true
jobs:
- '{name}-build-{arch}'
And so on ...
I can just:
- defaults:
name: sanebuild
- project:
name: project1
defaults: sanebuild
jobs:
- '{name}-build-{arch}'
And override the arch as needed either in the project or by passing it
to the job.
Without this patch, the provided yamlparser fixture
template_honor_defaults.yaml would raise:
arch parameter missing to format echo Build arch {arch}.
Given: {'': '', 'jobs': ['build-{arch}'], 'name': 'project-name'}
Change-Id: Ida1e27eb47356d9cae42175743bd2fd52eb9d869
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