Error "Pipeline references a task called 'replacetokens'" when running Publisher pipeline

[seyonp]

Release version

APIOps Toolkit for Azure APIM v1.2.0

Describe the bug

Hi Team, I am using Azure DevOps, and published both the extractor and publisher successfully.
And also ran the extractor pipeline successfully.
Then, (as stated in the lab instructions,) without merging the PR yet, I created a new pipeline to run the publisher.
That's when I tried merging the PR, but ran into the below error, indicating that the Run Publisher pipeline failed.
It says: A task is missing. The pipeline references a task called 'replacetokens'.
Would greatly appreciate any hint or advice. Thanks!

Expected behavior

After merging the PR, the Run Publisher pipeline should have built successfully.

Actual behavior

The Run Publisher pipeline fails, and error indicates that "a task is missing."

Reproduction Steps

Followed through the Azure DevOps instructions successfully, starting from publishing the 2 tools to Azure Artifacts, then running the Extractor pipeline. But when merging this PR, the Publisher pipeline fails.

[waelkdouh]

This means you haven't installed the replace token extension which is utilized in our pipeline. This is a third party extension so you have to install it within your own devops instance.

[UmairEjaz01]

I am using FileTransform@2 instead of ReplaceTokens as my org admin is not allowing ReplaceTokens.

• ${{ if ne(parameters.CONFIGURATION_YAML_PATH, '') }}:
  • task: FileTransform@2
    displayName: "Perform namevalue secret substitution in ${{ parameters.CONFIGURATION_YAML_PATH }}"
    inputs:
    targetFiles: ${{ parameters.CONFIGURATION_YAML_PATH }}
    encoding: "auto"
    writeBOM: true
    verbosity: "quiet"
    actionOnMissing: "warn"
    tokenPrefix: "{#"
    tokenSuffix: "#}"

Its giving me error below. Am i writing incorrect syntax? Can I replace Replacetoken with FileTransform@2 - File transform v2 task and how.

or can I skip this step and it wont break anything?

[waelkdouh]

Unfortunately we can't provide support for alternative tasks as we haven't tested them. Replacetoken task will be required when you are trying to override secret namedvalues in your configuration.[env].yaml file. Otherwise you will have to include the secret values in the configuration file which is considered an antipattern as you will be checking the configuration file into source control with secrets in clear text values.

[UmairEjaz01]

Thanks , I will check with my team then.