From 459b75ed9f902209ac15edb652403e9a43bf0d52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Fabian=20M=C3=BCller?= <fabian.mueller@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 20:33:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Provide MANUAL_PIPELINE_TYPE as a GitLab CI input

---
 .gitlab-ci.yml           | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 .gitlab-ci/variables.yml | 12 +-----------
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index a3a9e4706a..1a48046282 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+# note: inputs must be specified in this file
+spec:
+  inputs:
+    manual_pipeline_type:
+      type: string
+      description: "Type for the manual pipeline run. Use 'test-be-release' to run BE test against release codec."
+      default: 'default'
+      options:
+        - 'default'
+        - 'test-be-release'
+        - 'test-long-self-test'
+        - 'ivas-conformance'
+        - 'ivas-conformance-linux'
+        - 'check-clipping'
+        - 'test-branch-vs-input-passthrough'
+
+---
+
 variables:
   # note: GitLab cannot reference variables defined by users in the include ref:, we need to use a YAML anchor for this
   # see https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/yaml/includes/#use-variables-with-include for more information
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci/variables.yml b/.gitlab-ci/variables.yml
index 9e60194a6c..a925b076bf 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci/variables.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci/variables.yml
@@ -7,17 +7,7 @@ variables:
   OUT_FORMATS_SCENE_BASED: "FOA HOA2 HOA3"
   OUT_FORMATS_BINAURAL: "BINAURAL BINAURAL_ROOM_IR BINAURAL_ROOM_REVERB"
   OUT_FORMATS_ALL: "$OUT_FORMATS_CHANNEL_BASED $OUT_FORMATS_SCENE_BASED $OUT_FORMATS_BINAURAL EXT"
-  MANUAL_PIPELINE_TYPE:
-    description: "Type for the manual pipeline run. Use 'test-be-release' to run BE test against release codec."
-    value: 'default'
-    options:
-      - 'default'
-      - 'test-be-release'
-      - 'test-long-self-test'
-      - 'ivas-conformance'
-      - 'ivas-conformance-linux'
-      - 'check-clipping'
-      - 'test-branch-vs-input-passthrough'
+  MANUAL_PIPELINE_TYPE: $[[ inputs.manual_pipeline_type ]]
 
   PYTEST_ARGS: ""
   LONG_TEST_SUITE: "tests/codec_be_on_mr_nonselection tests/renderer --param_file scripts/config/self_test_ltv.prm --use_ltv"
-- 
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