Invalid deployment process can be submitted via API, this is not possible using the UI.

[octocrock]

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The bug

It's possible to use the API to submit a deployment process that is invalid, causing unexpected behaviour. The UI stops this deployment process being created.

Process is invalid because:

• It's got child steps and the parent step does not have a target role assigned.
• The parent step is a manual intervention step that cannot have a target role associated as it runs on the Octopus server, therefore it can't be a parent step.

What I expected to happen

The validation should match that in the UI.

Steps to reproduce

This API request reproduces the issue:
curl_manualintervention.txt

The invalid deployment process looks like:

Log excerpt

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Affected versions

Tested on 2020.5.2

Octopus Server:

Workarounds

This does not prevent the customer working.

Links

https://octopus.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/62229

[mcasperson]

We have flagged this as an issue with product, but at this point we do not have capacity to assign an engineer to resolve the issue. We'll keep the issue open, but unfortunately we can not provide any guidance as to when it will be resolved.

[mcasperson]

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