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Interacting with releases from otterscript, especially from within a scheduled job
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Buildmaster has some nice features when it comes to git and even monitoring git. Unfortunately it falls a hair short for what I need and I'm trying to bridge the gap with an otter script. This is having me fetch request info to make other calls. I'll give more details but the overall goal is to see if I'm not going about this in the way you'd recommend as well to see if there is any changes planned in the next major release that might help with this.
First some specifics on where my troubles are. When writing a script I prefer OtterScript because of all the built-in commands and the help you can get from the GUI as you go. I also figured that when interacting specifically with BuildMaster it would provide the most easy to use functionality. Unfortunately that didn't prove to be true in all cases, especially when running outside the context of a specific app, like in a scheduled job. I did find, however, that you can call the Buildmaster rest API to get extra functionality in some cases. Where I can't seem to bridge the gap is I'm getting a list of applications in the otterscript and I can get a set of release numbers but the API I want (which is Releases_GetRelease) in this case requires application id which I don't have, I just have name.
What I'm after here is to get the branch the release is linked to. Otterscript seems to have a way to do it for a build not a release. I tried treating the build as an optional parameter but it just threw an error for an invalid application name. I thought the error was odd but didn't know how to get around it so I pivoted. If there is a way I can use that function that would be great.
The ultimate thing I'm after (which I'm incredibly close on) is go through the active applications that have a git monitor on them and check the releases on that app to see if there are any created off a pr branch where the pr is no longer open so I can purge those releases. If there is something in an upcoming major release that might help with I'd appreciate learning about that too.
Thank you,
Brandon