Internal Server Error(500) on task upload for task that was deleted

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Internal Server Error(500) on task upload for task that was deleted

[bryanmacfarlane]

If you do task list, is that one in the list?

[codelabexpert]

No, it no longer appears in the list. I had previously deleted the task. (Id: 52A38A6A-1517-41D7-96CC-73EE0C60D2B6)

[bryanmacfarlane]

OK - then the suggestion is to not delete it again :) The 500 will be fixed to a no op.

[codelabexpert]

I'm stuck straight. When can I expect a fix for the 500? Is there something else I could do now?

[bryanmacfarlane]

First we need to understand what's causing the 500. Added Scott.

What task is this, a custom one? Can you share it?

[codelabexpert]

TaskName: DeployVisualStudioTestAgent (Comes out of the box with TFS 2015)

[bryanmacfarlane]

That's an inthebox task from this repo. the master branch of this repo is now on for sprint 89 targeting QU1 server that's not released. We open source our in the box tasks not so you can take future code and put it in an old server but instead as reference examples on how to write tasks for folks that write custom tasks.

The task demands a future server: "minimumAgentVersion": "1.88.0",

RTM server is 1.83.0

So the error is expected - but the bug is that it's a 500 instead of a 400 with a good error message.

[codelabexpert]

That's obvious. Ok, do you know where to get the old script version 1.83 again? I would try to upload this older verison again.

[bryanmacfarlane]

I believe releases/m83 would match RTM. crossing fingers ... :)

[bryanmacfarlane]

Also as a future note, even if you were uploading a newer task, you don't have to delete the old one. It keeps all task versions in the backend and uses the latest.

[codelabexpert]

Thank you a lot!
I tried it with https://github.com/Microsoft/vso-agent-tasks/tree/ab01d376156ad9ab13108a959a94a31fe03c7e33 and now all is fine :-)

[bryanmacfarlane]

great.