App Center distribute fails with a DatabaseError when marking the package as available

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Type: Bug

Enter Task Name: App Center distribute v3.173

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Environment

• Server - Azure Pipelines

  • If using Azure Pipelines, provide the account name, team project name, build definition name/build number: https://dev.azure.com/HQCdevops/HQC/_releaseProgress?releaseId=3833

• Agent - Hosted

  • If using Hosted agent, provide agent queue name: vs2017-win2016

Issue Description

When the old release upload API got deprecated, we tried transitioning over to the App Center distribute task as we didn’t knew that the downtime was generalized at the time. Since the transition, we keep on getting database errors when the package is flagged as available.

Task logs

2020-12-09T14:38:31.0108382Z ##[debug]-- Mark package available.
2020-12-09T14:38:31.0109151Z ##[debug]---- url: https://api.appcenter.ms/v0.1/apps/FOO/BAR/releases/123/groups
2020-12-09T14:38:31.2666442Z ##[debug]---- {"code":"dependent_service_error","message":"Error: {\"error\":{\"code\":\"DatabaseError\",\"message\":\"Conversion failed when converting from a character string to uniqueidentifier.\"}}"}
2020-12-09T14:38:31.2668136Z ##[debug]---- http call status code: 500
2020-12-09T14:38:31.2680065Z ##[debug]task result: Failed

[kawazoe]

@NaagAlgates There is nothing to fix. The bug is only opened because the error should be more clear to the user.

It happened because you are using distribution group names instead of their guid.

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