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Konstantin Tarashchanskiy
Konstantin Tarashchanskiy

Reputation: 2800

Getting data into a jenkins triggered build

I have a Jenkins build that can either be triggered via scheduling, by a user requesting it, or by being called as a build step from other builds. If this build is called as part of another build, it needs to save some information for the larger build to use. I want to pass this information back up by writing to a file. The only problem is having the builds agree on a location to write to.

One approach is to write it to a well known location, but this does not allow several builds to be run in parallel since one will clobber the other.

Another is to add a build parameter to the build that other builds will fill in with a file location to write to. This, to me, seems like a bit of a hack since it means that whenever the build is run, it will need to have a parameter passed in, even if it is just starting with the default value.

The final approach that I considered was having the parent build set an environment variable in the build and having the child check for the existence and content of the variable and act appropriately. Unfortunately, I cannot find a way to set this up in Jenkins.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 296

Answers (2)

hpschr
hpschr

Reputation: 71

It seems to me that a combination of archiving artifacts in post build and the Copy Artifact Plugin would do the job.

Upvotes: 1

CIGuy
CIGuy

Reputation: 5114

It sounds like you need the Parameterized Trigger Plugin.

Upvotes: 0

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