Chris, Thank you for your reply. Yes, I am using the copy config.xml approach for a lot of scenarios but it seems like a back door approach. I would have more confidence in the robustness of my code if I were using an API that threw errors when I did things wrong rather than potentially write some bad xml that either breaks jenkins all together (i've had it refuse to start a few times) or misbehave is subtle ways.
All that said though, to answer your question about specific examples, here are two of my other posts on things I am trying to configure in Jenkins via groovy. How to configure Maven Installation via Groovy <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jenkinsci-users/wsvDiFVQ7xo> Create UserPrivateKeySource Credential via Groovy? <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jenkinsci-users/Ou3k6Mqr3vg> In the case of the former, I am presently using an xml template as the solution. In the latter case, I have not go there yet as there does seem to be hope of getting the API to work. (fingers crossed). --Ken On Monday, January 12, 2015 at 7:46:06 AM UTC-5, Kenneth Baltrinic wrote: > > I am working on creating a chef cookbook to automate our Jenkins > infrastructure. I am using the opscode Jenkins cookbook as my starting > point but it only has a few basic resources. I can see I am going to need > use the cookbook's jenkins_script resource to configure Jenkins via groovy. > > That would be fine except I am having considerable difficulty figuring out > how to configure Jenkins via groovy. There does not seem to be a lot of > information out there either in the Jenkins docs nor in blogs, etc. None > of the plug-ins document their API, etc. There are API docs for main > Jenkins which help but only if you already understand the big picture, > which is what I am struggling with right now. I understand how to > configure all of our Jenkins boxes via the UI, but how do I learn to > translate that into knowledge of writing groovy scripts? Right now the > only means I am seeing is to spend a very long time digging my way through > the source code itself and learning from trial and error. Is there another > way? > > How do people out there learn and use the Jenkins API? > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/ed568564-34be-41d4-8a2d-63672dfdc84d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
