It would be a nice feature :)
My approach is to generate the build flow jobs via the Gary Hale's
gradle-jenkins plugin. Everything is then stored in source control and the
jobs generated by runnign a gradle script.
HTH.
On Monday, 7 April 2014 08:13:29 UTC+1, asmundo wrote:
>
> hi all,
>
> I want to thank Jenkins community for a this excellent tool.
>
> To make my work even easier I would very much like to be able to do
> regression testing on my build flow scripts. See [1] for motivation. If
> anybody have solved this already I would very much like to know the
> solution.
>
> My suggestion to solve this is to read the build flow definition from file
> and not directly from a job definition. File path should be passed in as a
> parameter. Inspired by [2] and [3] my first try was:
>
> String fileContents = new File('/tmp/flow.txt').text
> println fileContents
>
> buildClosures = []
> curClosure = { fileContents }
> buildClosures.add(curClosure)
>
> parallel(buildClosures)
>
>
> Output:
>
> Started by user anonymous <http://localhost:8080/user/null>
> build("pass")
>
> parallel {
> }
> Finished: SUCCESS
>
>
>
> I admit I did not doubted this would work but I had to try. If anybody
> have an idea on how to do this inside a build flow definition or from a
> groovy script.
>
> I am expect an answer to this in the build flow plugin code but my
> java/groovy knowledge is limited. A pointer where the reading of the build
> job definition is done would be much appreciated.
>
>
> Regards,
> Asmund
>
> [1]
>
> Motivation:
> My 100+ jobs are with many dependencies are getting easy to mess up under
> reconfiguration, mostly checkin regression jobs. I have most of my jobs in
> freestyle configurations and the dependencies handled by the Build flow
> plugin. The freestyle jobs are mostly just executing a script, and is
> therefore easy to checkin regression on. But the build flow scripts the
> issue I now have.
>
> [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jenkinsci-users/dkwOzMVeYxg
> [3]
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7729302/how-to-read-a-file-in-groovy-into-a-string
>
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