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Ravisha
Ravisha

Reputation: 3343

How do i programatically set the email recipients for a jenkins job

I am trying to update the email recipients for loads of jenkins job with new set of email lists, I am unable to find the right API to do so. Although this could be updated in the config file directly but wanted to use Jenkins APIs if available any

Edit : I am referring to the below field Post-build Actions: E-mail Notification > Recipients

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2545

Answers (1)

mainframer
mainframer

Reputation: 22069

Well. Currently I do not have the code but I have the thoughts.

1st step:
You can use whatever jenkins API (REST, python wrapper,etc...) to dump all your job names into a txt file, saying job_list.txt. Below is an example. And you can find the useage from This link.

import jenkins
j = jenkins.Jenkins('http://your_url_here', 'username', 'password')
j.get_jobs()

2nd step:
As you can see, each job has an config file with path like $JENKINS_HOME/jobs/job_name/config.xml. This can also be accessed from your browser. From browser it looks like this:

recipients shows in jenkins job's config.xml

So your question can be simplified into either:
"How to update the recipients value of config.xml from each job folder under $JENKINS_HOME/jobs directory".
Or:
"How to update the recipients value of config.xml from each job url like http://your_jenkins_url/job/each_job_name/config.xml".

So this can be done by any script language like python,ruby,shell,vb or whatever http-like lib like 'urllib2', 'requests' etc...

3rd step:
After all the config.xml file updated, don't forget to restart your jenkins to take effects.

Good luck, buddy!

Edited(2015-05-27)
There is an existing Groovy script written by @edalquist which can update the email address in a programatically way. https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins-scripts/blob/master/scriptler/updateEmailAddress.groovy

Upvotes: 1

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