Can I get access to an approver's id and comment when they approve a pending stage in Azure Devops Pipelines?

Question

My pipeline has a stage that is dependent upon a reviewer to approve it before it runs. When they approve it they can type in a comment. Is this comment data + their approvers id available as a variable in the stage of the pipeline that runs as an effect of this approval?

Hi bitsofinfo, how's this ticket? Have you figured out it? Just checking to see if my reply helped or gave a right direction. — PatrickLu-MSFT

PatrickLu-MSFT PatrickLu-MSFT · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-09T07:23:00

According to your description, looks like you just want to get the pre-deployment approval during the deployment.

To get the pre-deployment approval, you can use the REST API Get release:

GET https://vsrm.dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/release/releases/{releaseId}?api-version=5.1`

For the release id, you can use the predefined variable $( Release.ReleaseId). And you can get the per-deployment approval from the response as below:

    "preApprovalsSnapshot": {
        "approvals": [
            {
                "rank": 1,
                "isAutomated": false,
                "isNotificationOn": false,
                "approver": {
                    "displayName": "yeye",
                    "url": "xxx",
                    "_links": {
                        "avatar": {
                            "href": "xxx"
                        }
                    },
                    "id": "18cb43b4-0b0d-43ad-94dc-c8e2b56704c0",
                    "uniqueName": "****@****.com",
                    "imageUrl": "xxx",
                    "descriptor": "msa.YjE2YzFlOWUtNWJkYy03NzU1LWJjNWEtNDU4M2Q5ZThlMjk0"
                },
                "id": 0
            }
        ],
        "approvalOptions": {
            "requiredApproverCount": null,
            "releaseCreatorCanBeApprover": true,
            "autoTriggeredAndPreviousEnvironmentApprovedCanBeSkipped": false,
            "enforceIdentityRevalidation": false,
            "timeoutInMinutes": 0,
            "executionOrder": "beforeGates"
        }
    }

Finally, you could use the got approver ID/Name, comments and pass them as an argument to a powershell script.

Hope this helps.

Can I get access to an approver's id and comment when they approve a pending stage in Azure Devops Pipelines?

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