How do I establish the Build Timestamp during a deploy?

[Michael Heyns]

During build I am storing information to a remote server in a direcory

/path/December-2016/BUILD-PLAN-KEY/

I would like to retrieve this during Deploy.

The Bamboo variable bamboo.buildTimeStamp is not available.

Is there any way for me to deduce the month-year value of a past build?

[rsperafico]

Hello Michael,

This variable (bamboo.buildTimeStamp) is available to builds not deployments.

The are a few things you could do:

1. create an artifact with the result of (bamboo.buildTimeStamp) and consume it in your deployment
2. run an REST API call (https://docs.atlassian.com/bamboo/REST/5.14.1/#d2e439) from a Script task and parsing its result

http://localhost:8085/rest/api/latest/result/${bamboo.buildResultKey}.json

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Kind regards,
Rafael P. Sperafico

[JohnMelody]

Hi, 

I want to use the build time stamp in a deployment. 

The artifact definition has three fields 

name, location and copy pattern. 

How do I do your option 1 i.e. create an artifact with the result of bamboo.buildTimeStamp? Do I have to store it to a file or something? 

Thanks for any help

John.