Launching a build using REST API with a Git branch name as a parameter

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Mark Petrovic
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Hi.

I have a Git VCS root with the default  branch set as "master" and the Branch Specification set using a build parameter %BRANCH_NAME%.

I want to start this build (with buildTypeId==bt2) with a branch name = "foo".  Here is what I've tried, but I want to verify this is the correct form:

$ curl -i -u u:p "http://localhost:8111/httpAuth/action.html?add2Queue=bt2&name=BRANCH_NAME&value=foo"

Is this correct?

Thanks.

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Michael Kuzmin
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Not exactly. A correct syntax is

http://teamcity:8111/httpAuth/action.html?add2Queue=bt1&branchName=master
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Mark Petrovic
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Thank you.

Your form works.

If I did have a parameter I wanted to inject into the build config, what syntax would I use?

And how did you know to use branchName as a key in the query params?

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Michael Kuzmin
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If I did have a parameter I wanted to inject into the build config, what syntax would I use?

We have such example on Accessing Server by HTTP page. The syntax for passing parameters is http://teamcity/httpAuth/action.html?add2Queue=bt1&name=property1&value=value1&name=property2&value=value2

And how did you know to use branchName as a key in the query params?

Actually, I used Fiddler to grab HTTP traffic between a browser and TeamCity web server.
The web page makes POST-request to runCustomBuild.html page, but you make  a similar request using GET method to action.html page.

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