Cannot use AnyTask in Deployments

[Spencer Richman]

Hi,

I am attempting to migrate a deployment project to Java specs. We are using Bamboo 9.2.22. The deployment environments use tasks provided by JFrog's bamboo-artifactory-plugin. These tasks are exported by the plugin as AnyTasks. When scanning the specs repository, I am given the following error: 

04-Mar-2025 10:25:35	Task type com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.task.AnyTask cannot be used in deployments

I cannot find any documentation on why this limitation exists or how one might work around it. Is there any way to work around this?

This is especially confusing because Bamboo will export the environment with AnyTasks, but then it cannot be imported. 

Thanks in advance!

[Shashank Kumar · Accepted solution]

It worked for me in Java specs as well, I am using the below specs in Bamboo 9.6.4

import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.BambooSpec;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.AtlassianModule;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.BambooOid;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.deployment.Deployment;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.deployment.Environment;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.deployment.ReleaseNaming;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.permission.DeploymentPermissions;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.permission.EnvironmentPermissions;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.permission.PermissionType;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.permission.Permissions;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.plan.PlanIdentifier;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.task.AnyTask;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.builders.task.ArtifactDownloaderTask;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.builders.task.CleanWorkingDirectoryTask;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.builders.task.DownloadItem;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.builders.task.ScriptTask;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.util.BambooServer;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.util.MapBuilder;

@BambooSpec
public class PlanSpec {

public Deployment rootObject() {
final Deployment rootObject = new Deployment(new PlanIdentifier("SCRIP", "TIC1")
.oid(new BambooOid("xj6quyqtvy81")),
"DEPLOYMENTJAVA")
.oid(new BambooOid("xjj7ufxjdb0h"))
.releaseNaming(new ReleaseNaming("release-12")
.autoIncrement(true)
.applicableToBranches(true))
.environments(new Environment("UAT")
.tasks(new CleanWorkingDirectoryTask(),
new ArtifactDownloaderTask()
.description("Download release contents")
.artifacts(new DownloadItem()
.allArtifacts(true)),
new ScriptTask()
.inlineBody("ECHO \"test""),
new AnyTask(new AtlassianModule("org.jfrog.bamboo.bamboo-artifactory-plugin:ArtifactoryDeploymentDownloadTask"))
.configuration(new MapBuilder()
.put("artifactory.generic.publishBuildInfo", "")
.put("artifactory.generic.username", "")
.put("artifactory.generic.specSourceChoice", "jobConfiguration")
.put("artifactory.task.buildNumber", "")
.put("deployer.sharedCredentials", "")
.put("deployer.overrideCredentialsChoice", "")
.put("artifactory.task.buildName", "")
.put("artifactory.generic.resolveRepo", "")
.put("artifactory.generic.deployPattern", "")
.put("artifactory.generic.envVarsExcludePatterns", "")
.put("builder.artifactoryGenericBuilder.artifactoryServerId", "")
.put("artifactory.generic.file", "")
.put("resolver.overrideCredentialsChoice", "noOverriding")
.put("artifactory.generic.useSpecsChoice", "")
.put("artifactory.generic.includeEnvVars", "")
.put("artifactory.generic.artifactSpecs", "")
.put("artifactory.generic.password", "/* SENSITIVE INFORMATION */")
.put("artifactory.generic.jobConfiguration", "")
.put("baseUrl", "http://10.10.0.4:8085")
.put("artifactory.generic.envVarsIncludePatterns", "")
.put("artifactory.generic.resolvePattern", "")
.put("builder.artifactoryGenericBuilder.deployableRepo", "")
.put("captureBuildInfo", "")
.put("resolver.sharedCredentials", "")
.put("buildInfoAggregation", "")
.build()))
.releaseApprovalPrerequisite(Environment.ReleaseApprovalPrerequisite.NONE));
return rootObject;
}

public DeploymentPermissions deploymentPermission() {
final DeploymentPermissions deploymentPermission = new DeploymentPermissions("DEPLOYMENTJAVA")
.permissions(new Permissions()
.userPermissions("test", PermissionType.EDIT, PermissionType.VIEW_CONFIGURATION, PermissionType.VIEW, PermissionType.APPROVE_RELEASE));
return deploymentPermission;
}

public EnvironmentPermissions environmentPermission1() {
final EnvironmentPermissions environmentPermission1 = new EnvironmentPermissions("DEPLOYMENTJAVA")
.environmentName("UAT")
.permissions(new Permissions()
.userPermissions("test", PermissionType.EDIT, PermissionType.VIEW_CONFIGURATION, PermissionType.VIEW, PermissionType.BUILD));
return environmentPermission1;
}

public static void main(String... argv) {
//By default credentials are read from the '.credentials' file.
BambooServer bambooServer = new BambooServer("http://10.10.0.4:8085");
final PlanSpec planSpec = new PlanSpec();

final Deployment rootObject = planSpec.rootObject();
bambooServer.publish(rootObject);

final DeploymentPermissions deploymentPermission = planSpec.deploymentPermission();
bambooServer.publish(deploymentPermission);

final EnvironmentPermissions environmentPermission1 = planSpec.environmentPermission1();
bambooServer.publish(environmentPermission1);
}
}

[Spencer Richman]

Thanks for checking, @Shashank Kumar! I guess it is a limitation that was resolved in a newer version. We will be upgrading to 9.6 soon so I will try again then. 

[Shashank Kumar]

Hello Spencer,

Welcome to Atlassian community.

I tried a JFROG task in YAML specs on Bamboo 9.6.4 and it works, haven't tried yet on Java specs yet. Is it possible for you to give a try on YAML specs.

Regards,

Shashank kumar

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