Issue created at https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-47076. 

On Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 7:56:05 AM UTC-5, Jon Schewe wrote:
>
> 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 looks badly out of date, since it doesn't use withAnt) that defines a build 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 <[email protected]> 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
>>>
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