Thank you for the pointers. Do you know how this documentation <https://jenkinsci.github.io/job-dsl-plugin/#method/javaposse.jobdsl.dsl.helpers.step.StepContext.ant> relates to calling ant then? To me it suggests that I don't need to write a function to determine the platform.
Is there a central location for pipeline documentation or does it belong on each of the plugins? On Friday, September 22, 2017 at 9:43:58 PM UTC-5, Mark Waite wrote: > > Based on the unit test > <https://github.com/jenkinsci/ant-plugin/blob/798cf27ebba66685d2fa7446521228fae1ab975f/src/test/java/hudson/tasks/AntWrapperTest.java#L75>, > > I believe the "withAnt" build wrapper assures that the selected ant tool is > available on the agent where you're running, and configures the environment > to use that version of ant. It does not call ant. > > Inside the withAnt() wrapper, you call ant using sh or bat as appropriate. > > An example might be: > > withAnt(installation: 'ant-latest', jdk: 'jdk8') { > if (isUnix()) { > sh 'ant clean build' > } else { > bat 'ant clean build' > } > } > > I've never used the withAnt task, but I use ant very often in my > regression test branches. > > I have a pipeline library > <https://github.com/MarkEWaite/jenkins-pipeline-utils/blob/master/src/com/markwaite/Build.groovy> > (which > looks badly out of date, since it doesn't use withAnt) that defines a build > step for ant, and then I call it > <https://github.com/MarkEWaite/jenkins-bugs/blob/74db3aa963ba857d26b0b223a5aae2bdff4c727a/Jenkinsfile#L18>. > > That build step hides the decision of which platform, and thus hides the > decision to use "sh" or "bat" to invoke the ant command. > > Now that we've both learned something new about withAnt, let's find a way > to submit a pull request to jenkins.io to provide a withAnt() example. > Either that, or we can insert that documentation into the Ant plugin wiki > page (to match what is done for the withMaven step > <https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Pipeline+Maven+Plugin>) > > Mark Waite > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 8:25 PM Jon Schewe <jpsc...@mtu.net <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> I'm trying to switch to using the pipeline plugin and I'm having a really >> hard time finding documentation. In particular I want to call an ant build >> script and I don't want to do it with sh/bat because the OS may change. >> >> I found some documentation at [1], however I get errors about missing >> properties when I try the example. >> >> I found the withAnt block in the snippet generator, but can't find the >> syntax for inside the block. >> >> It's not clear to me where I should put the node {} blocks either. I have >> seen that it's a good idea to do things on a node to ensure I know where >> it's running, but I'm not having a lot of luck getting the syntax right. >> >> I'm also trying to limit which node the job runs on. I found [2] and >> tried using "node('fll-build')" and get errors: >> >> org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup >> failed: >> WorkflowScript: 5: Undefined section "node" @ line 5, column 2. >> node('fll-build') { >> ^ >> >> >> You can see the current state of my experiments, and the history of what >> I've tried, at [3] >> >> 1 - >> https://jenkinsci.github.io/job-dsl-plugin/#method/javaposse.jobdsl.dsl.helpers.step.StepContext.ant >> 2 - >> https://github.com/jenkinsci/pipeline-plugin/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md#using-agents >> 3 - https://github.com/jpschewe/fll-sw/blob/jenkins-pipeline/Jenkinsfile >> >> -- >> http://mtu.net/~jpschewe >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to jenkinsci-use...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CALpcnoxq5f1_0dDxXYvYu9xxoErnrTd86Gtw1_C59pyt0M7CvA%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CALpcnoxq5f1_0dDxXYvYu9xxoErnrTd86Gtw1_C59pyt0M7CvA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/bd064708-b4e2-4d9d-bfbc-bc5fae3e7474%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
