Is https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/URL+SCM something like you are looking for?
Richard. On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 at 03:43 vince webb <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Dick > Thank you for your reply. I'm thinking about this download of multiple > files not for a single Jenkins job but for numerous different jobs each of > which will require a different list of files. Thus I figured: > Step 1 get a file which contains a list of URLs > Step 2 get a file from each of the URLs identified by the file got in step > 1 > > Because I envisage these steps being repeated in numerous similar jobs I > would like configuration to be as simple as possible. Use of a plugin > should give less scope for error than pasting in a script. > > > > On 29 June 2015 at 16:08, Ginga, Dick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Vince You can of course insert a Batch/Shell step that copies >> anything you want. >> >> >> >> There is, under Build Environment section: >> >> >> >> Run buildstep before SCM runs – from the Pre SCM BuildStep Plugin >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Vince Webb >> *Sent:* Monday, June 29, 2015 10:36 AM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Jenkins Plugin categories - upload /download >> >> >> >> Hello >> I'm searching for a plugin that I feel must exist already but I can't >> find it. I've got to thinking that perhaps the reason I can't find it is a >> weakness in the plugin categorisations. >> >> The terms "upload" and "download" are well understood when the user's >> local computer is either the source or destination of the file transfer. >> >> Local computer to remote computer is Upload >> Remote compure to local computer is Download. >> >> When neither computer is local to the user then use of these terms >> becomes open to interpretation. >> >> There is a Jenkins plugin category named "Artifact uploaders". It mostly >> has plugins for uploading a build output to a place of publication. >> >> What I'm looking for is a plugin for pulling files from a remote place >> into the Jenkins workspace for use by a build. You might categorise this as >> a download, if you do then you would expect to find it in a category of >> plugins whose name includes the word DOWNLOAD. >> >> I've found no such category, my search for a plugin to get files from >> HTTP URLs listed in a file has proved fruitless so far. Thus I am >> contemplating writing my own plugin even though I feel sure such a plugin >> must already exist. >> >> Vince >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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/cbfcf804-1df6-415d-b4cb-280abc9105f0%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/cbfcf804-1df6-415d-b4cb-280abc9105f0%40googlegroups.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 a topic in the >> Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jenkinsci-users/Et3mtvfLKhA/unsubscribe >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. > > >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/6C6EE445A6F6CE4E8A0FFB51B071A4E2D86429AD%40AMERMBX02.PERKINELMER.NET >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/6C6EE445A6F6CE4E8A0FFB51B071A4E2D86429AD%40AMERMBX02.PERKINELMER.NET?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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAK4cjrDZAxBr2sQFEvHaFT88xVo%2BmonU%3DdBTWTLtpZwnLnO%3D7w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAK4cjrDZAxBr2sQFEvHaFT88xVo%2BmonU%3DdBTWTLtpZwnLnO%3D7w%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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAMui947rNqRzyD4M7UE0Ri2_9VRTn0yy3AKh9BrfkAOWc2oAgw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
