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J. H
J. H

Reputation: 145

Creating Jenkins Job using python API

I am very new to Jenkins and am trying to create a build job using the python API. I am using the following code that I found in the docs: https://python-jenkins.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html#example-3-working-with-jenkins-jobs

But I am struggling to get pass this line of code

server.create_job(job_name, Jenkins.EMPTY_CONFIG_XML)

It is giving me an error:

AttributeError: type object 'Jenkins' has no attribute 'EMPTY_CONFIG_XML'

Am I supposed to be specifying a file path to the config.xml?
I am just a bit confused on how the server creates the job using EMPTY_CONFIG_XML

Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 9617

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1324248

Check first from where you are importing your jenkins module:

import jenkins
print jenkins.__file__

Check also if the connection is working (from the first part of Get version of Jenkins)

import jenkins

server = jenkins.Jenkins('http://localhost:8080', username='myuser', password='mypassword')
user = server.get_whoami()
version = server.get_version()
print('Hello %s from Jenkins %s' % (user['fullName'], version))

You have a similar error pending in this issue.

The string "EMPTY_FOLDER_XML" only appears in in doc/source/examples.rst so it is possible it is an "example" value.

The tests/jobs/test_create.py uses

self.j.create_job(u'Test Job', self.config_xml)

with tests/jobs/base.py defining config_xml as:

config_xml = """
    <matrix-project>
        <actions/>
        <description>Foo</description>
    </matrix-project>"""

So you can use a similar approach in order to define your own empty or minimal config.xml.

The OP J. H points out in the comments to the simple fix:

Simply just had to install python-jenkins.

Upvotes: 1

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