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Gogi
Gogi

Reputation: 1695

How to set an environment variable programmatically in Jenkins/Hudson?

I have two scripts in the pre-build step in a Jenkins job, the first one a perl script, the second a system groovy script using the groovy plugin. I need information from the first perl script in my second groovy script. I think the best way would be to set some environment variable, and was wondering how that can be realized.

Or any other better way.

Thanks for your time.

Upvotes: 15

Views: 68022

Answers (2)

luka5z
luka5z

Reputation: 7805

Using EnvInject Plugin from job configuration you should use Inject environment variables to the build process / Evaluated Groovy script.

Depending on the setup you may execute Groovy or shell command and save it in map containing environment variables:

Example

By either getting command result with execute method:

return [DATE: 'date'.execute().text]

or with Groovy equivalent if one exists:

return [DATE: new Date()]

Upvotes: 3

malenkiy_scot
malenkiy_scot

Reputation: 16605

The way to propagate environment variables among build steps is via EnvInject Plugin.

Here are some previous answers that show how to do it:

In your case, however, it may be simpler just to write to a file in one build step and read that file in another. To make sure you do not accidentally read from a previous version of the file you can incorporate BUILD_ID in the file name.

Upvotes: 14

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