On Monday, December 31, 2018 at 9:34:58 AM UTC-5, Jesse Glick wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 5:49 PM martinda <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> >> burden efforts to produce an alternate execution engine 
> > 
> > The two execution engines I know of are the scripted pipeline and the 
> descriptive pipeline. Is there talks about a newer one? 
>
> No, that is the same execution engine—`workflow-cps` directly 
> implements Scripted, and Declarative is a kind of preprocessor for 
> that. An alternate engine would replace the on-master Groovy 
> interpreter. 
>

Sounds like a large complex project. Maybe someone from the Pipeline 
Authoring SIG could comment?
 

>
> > if you say that there are problems with returning non-simple data types, 
> are you also saying that there are problems providing methods that return 
> simple data types? 
> > e.g. jenkinsRest.api().systemApi().version() -> return the version 
> number as a String? 
>
> The problem here is (1) using the `GlobalVariable` extension point 
> (please do not), (2) returning intermediate objects with behaviors. 
> Such idioms rely on particularities of `workflow-cps` (and do not even 
> work well in Declarative). 
>

Ok, so is there a way forward for plugins of that type (those that intent 
to wrap REST APIs of external services)?

Thanks,
Martin 

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