I want to print a hyperlink to a file I created while running a pipeline job. This simple .txt file should be opened after hitting the link. I found this wiki entry but there is no example implementation. Is there a way to perform this? I dont know how to trigger the 'explorer' call. (this is for windows use only)
I used : '<file://link/to/folder/>' and its working ;)
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In my Jenkins Console logs it says:
Obtained jenkins/some.jenkinsfile from git ssh://mygitserver.myorg.com/my/git/repo.git
so I have to copy / paste / edit to get that repo then click about to the Jenkinsfile in your browser.
When you're doing this multiple times every day it becomes a major headache.
Is there anyway to get a simple clickable link?
I would suggest crafting an output that would then become clickable. i.e. declare the link then specify the file using a variable.
script { println("https://yourRepoUrl.com/jenkins/${downloadFile}) }
Alternatively, you could download the file from within the pipeline. See here for details
I occasionally want to get notified when a particular jenkins job that is building finishes. Is there any way to do this?
Scripting it through the API would be fine. I already have the jenkins IRC bot that notifies me of many things, so if I could just dynamically modify the running job build, that would be enough to do what I want -- I'm just having a hard time finding how to accomplish that.
AFAIK, you cannot change a job's config while it's running.
Here is an idea: Use a post-build step to check for an external resource status (like a file containing an action by text) and running an action based on the content of the file.
The external file can be modified while the build is running, so when the post-build is executed, it will follow the logic defined based on the content of the file.
I hope this helps.
You can use email notifier, It will send you an email
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Email-ext+plugin
We are using Jenkins in our build cycle to run our specflow tests. We are trying to find a better way to surface the test results. The generated html report file is great, but right now we have to manually log into the build server to check it out. I want to surface that file via a clickable link.
Here is what I am talking about specifically. Here is the test results via our Jenkins console
I want to change the highlighted text to an http url so that everyone can just click that and view the file.
I already have the http link working, so that's not the issue. I just need to figure out how to make specrun output this link here.
Any ideas on if this is possible? And if so how to do it?
Thanks for the help!
Sorry, this is currently not possible in SpecFlow+Runner, but I will put it on the backlog as a feature request.
Perhaps you can do something in Jenkins to parse the output and reformat the link.
Full disclosure: I am on of the developers of the SpecFlow+Runner.
This is a broad question, so any answers are deeply appreciated. I need to continually log the size of several build files (in this case some CSS and JS files), preserve this log and ideally show it as a dashboard in Jenkins.
I know that I can setup a cron job and execute a bash script to grab the files and log their size, but I'm not sure where this file would live and how to display it. Ideally the result would be a dashboard plot or bar graph over time.
Thanks.
P.S. I'm open to other logging suggestions, but Jenkins seems like the appropriate system to do this in.
Update: this isn't perfect but it works. Google Spreadsheets has a simple API for posting data, so this can work as an endpoint for any script you want to write that logs your data.
It's not a Jenkins solution, but gets the job done.
In my search leading up to this, I did come across JMeter, and the Performance Plugin for Jenkins, which were contenders for a possible solution.
I am trying to find a way to prompt the user to select and upload a generic file from a local machine to a Jenkins job prior to build. The input file that user is going to upload is not necessarily a text or a property file.
I am specifically trying to get the user to "select" their desired file - browse to their file ; the user should not pass the file's path.
Thanks
Use the File Parameter:
File parameter allows a build to accept a file, to be submitted by the user when scheduling a new build. The file will be placed inside the workspace at the known location after the check-out/update is done, so that your build scripts can use this file.
If you need to verify the file has a certain extension, you would have to do that with a script as part of your job, and fail the job is extension/content-type does not match what you need.
This is kind of annoying to handle when you don't know what the file name will be or need to change its name before it reaches its destination. You kind of need to perform a hack. This is how I do it:
Use the "File parameter" parameter to upload your file
Use the OS-specific script to rename the file from whatever you named your File Parameter to whatever you want it to be, e.g., if my File Parameter had the File location value of file_name instead of an actual relative file-path, I'd then do something like this for say, Windows inside a Build-Step for "Execute Windows Batch Command":
move .\file_name .\%file_name%
And then just use ArtifactDeployer to copy everything there to your desired location.
ps: this won't remove digital signatures, so the move-operation should be considered mostly safe.
The use of the Jenkins File Parameter will not work for Jenkins pipelines. It's ridiculous that they don't disable that kind of build parameter for pipelines. It's even more ridiculous that they don't at the very least, identify this SEVERE limitation in the help documentation for that parameter.
It would have saved me a couple hours trying to figure out why it would not work in my pipeline.
Refer to this feature request for more details: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-27413