I need to include information about the user that executed Jenkins job inside JAR Manifest among other things
What variable I need to read it off?
I need to include information about the user that executed Jenkins job inside JAR
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I need to include information about the user that executed Jenkins job inside JAR Manifest among other things
What variable I need to read it off?
You can query Jenkins via its api. See
http://[jenkins-host]/apiorhttps://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Remote+access+APIfor help. The information you need is contained there.To get a feel for it, enter
http://[jenkins-host]/api/xml?depth=2and search for “started by” on the page (make sure set the depth to at least 2).You will need to get that information via a script in your build and then parse it based on the build id.
There already exists Python wrapper for that sort of thing: http://packages.python.org/python-jenkins/
Here’s also an XPath expression that will parse out the “started by…” info by BUILD_ID:
http://[jenkins-host]/api/xml?depth=2&xpath=//build/id[text()='BUILD_ID']/../action/cause/shortDescription/text()(Of course, you need to specify the actual BUILD_ID string).