Orbs

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Realtime conditions for Orbs
Orbs are nice and all but it really is not useful if I can not call them with certain conditions. In CircleCI 2.0 I can do shell commands to have conditional logic, but it seems with reusable Orbs, I can not use any of those conditions since it is all YAML. Pls take a look at what Ansible did with its when condition and Jinja2 templating code. I was trying to do some conditions on environment vars but it seems CircleCI 2.1 is just preprocessed code that converts to 2.0 code so something like parameters: circle-pull-request: description: The URL of the associated pull request. If there are multiple associated pull requests, one URL is randomly chosen. type: string default: $CIRCLE_PULL_REQUEST circle-tag: description: The name of the git tag, if the current build is tagged. type: string default: $CIRCLE_TAG steps: - checkout - when: condition: << parameters.circle-pull-request >> steps: - run: | echo "when parameters.circle-pull-request: << parameters.circle-pull-request >>" - unless: condition: << parameters.circle-pull-request >> steps: - run: | echo "unless parameters.circle-pull-request: << parameters.circle-pull-request >>" - when: condition: << parameters.circle-tag >> steps: - run: | echo "when parameters.circle-tag: << parameters.circle-tag >>" - unless: condition: << parameters.circle-tag >> steps: - run: | echo "unless parameters.circle-tag: << parameters.circle-tag >>" Will not work at all and I will always get the When conditions. This is quite sad because If I want to do something as simple as use the Slack Orb to send a notification based upon something at runtime, I have to literally copy paste the Slack Orb code into my config (which is what CircleCI processing does anyway). CCI-I-721
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