Larry cai <larry.caiyu@gmail.com>

Agenda What is Jenkins Scriptler ? Exercise 1: Hello World in Jenkins script

console Exercise 2: Hook into Jenkins Exercise 3: Jenkins Java API Exercise 4: Find the needed Jenkins Java

method Exercise 5: Put into Jenkins Scriptler Exercise 6: Learn more Groovy

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Jenkins Scriptler Administering your jenkins scripts, which is

used to trouble-shooting and diagnostics or routing tasks in jenkins

Provides a way to share scripts between users via hosted script catalogs on the internet.

Install plugin

Usehttp://<jenkins job>/scriptler/or

Jenkins -> Scriptler (system menu)

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https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Scriptler+Plugin

Jenkins script Jenkins script can access to Jenkins instance

data and manipulate directly Jenkins script use Groovy, which is an agile

and dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine

a.k.a java-like script language over JVM

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Exercise 1 – Hello World Jenkins Console the place to exercise the

Jenkins script

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https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+Script+Console

Exercise 2 – Hook into Jenkins Get the jenkins java instance

ji = jenkins.model.Jenkins.instance All the items (include jobs)

jobs = ji.items Printout the job names started with “test”

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Exercise 3: Jenkins Java API Script use jenkins JAVA API to access internal

datahttp://javadoc.jenkins-ci.org/

Jenkins instance is http://javadoc.jenkins-ci.org/jenkins/model/Jenkins.html

Then locate “getAllItems()” API

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Exercise 4 – Find the needed method Find the Item API and try to printout the url for

the jobs

If needed, check the source code if java developershttps://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/blob/master/core/src/main/java/hudson/model/Item.java

Otherwise Check samples ;-)Jenkins Scriptler in 90 minutes8

Exercise 5: Put into Jenkins Scriptler Now put the scripts into Jenkins Scriptler Id & Name: geturl

Add parameter for “job_prefix”, use “$name”

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Exercise 6: learn more Groovy Install Groovy Console

http://groovy.codehaus.org/ Learn loop syntax

http://groovy.codehaus.org/Looping

List string in closures way

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Reference Market place

http://scriptlerweb.appspot.com/catalog/list https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins-scripts/tree/master/

scriptler

Groovy http://groovy.codehaus.org

Small guideline http://earlyandoften.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/

mastering-jenkins-making-bulk-updates-to-jobs/

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