Dynamic ChildPipeline

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How do we skip ChildPipeline or make it succeeded if there is empty generated-config.yml , basically no changes to be generated


generate-config:
  stage: build
  before_script:
    - apt-get update -y
    - apt-get -y install git zip unzip wget jq apt-transport-https ca-certificates gnupg python3 > /dev/null 2>&1
  script: 
    - python3 python/generate-jobs.py
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - generated-config.yml
  tags:
    - aws
    - prd

validate-generated-config:
  stage: validate
  script: |
    if [ -s generated-config.yml ]; then
      echo "Child pipeline configuration found."
    else
      echo "No child pipeline configuration found, skipping child pipeline trigger."
      touch skip-trigger
      exit 0
    fi
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - generated-config.yml
      - skip-trigger
  needs:
    - generate-config
  tags:
    - aws
    - prd

child-pipeline:
  stage: apply-tf
  trigger:
    include:
      - artifact: generated-config.yml
        job: generate-config
  needs:
    - validate-generated-config
  rules:
    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME == "branch"'
      exists:
        - generated-config.yml
    - when: always