OR operator for checking branches in Octopus Deploy

Question

I have a 'Deploy a nuget package' step in Octopus. In that step, I want to deploy a nuget package and have some deployment script executed.

Now I want the deployment to happen only for master and hotfix branches.SO I added a condition like this in the deployemnt script:

 if ($BranchName.ToLower().equals("master") -or $BranchName.ToLower().contains("hotfix")) 
 {
  ...................
 }

But it doesn't work and I am gettin error like this

 'You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.'

How can I achieve this?

Note: I don't have any pre-deployment and post-deployment script

Your code works fine as long as `$branchname` contains data and is a string. The error is pretty clear so far. `$branchname` appears to be null. how do you populate it? — Matt, Sep 30 '15 at 04:03

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 30 '15 at 01:55

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Are you able to check if $BranchName is null? You can also compare strings with inbuilt operators:

if ($BranchName -and ($BranchName -ilike "master" -or $BranchName -ilike "*hotfix*"))
 {
  ...................
 }

answered Sep 30 '15 at 01:55

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