On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 7:18 AM Jon Schewe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 8:08 AM, Mark Waite <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 6:56 AM Jon Schewe <[email protected]> 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. >>> >>> >> That's a good question. I believe that documentation site (javaposse) is >> describing a specific Jenkins tool, "Job DSL", rather than Jenkins >> Pipeline. Both are DSL's, and I believe that both use groovy as the base >> language for their work, but they are different DSL's, with different >> syntax details. >> > > Ahh, I see that now. I was so focused on the fact that it talked about a > DSL with Jenkins for ant that I assumed it was the same DSL. > > >> >> >>> Is there a central location for pipeline documentation or does it belong >>> on each of the plugins? >>> >>> >> I believe the jenkins.io site is intended to be the central location for >> pipeline documentation. >> >> I think we can consider the withMaven documentation >> <https://jenkins.io/doc/pipeline/steps/pipeline-maven/> as an example >> when documenting withAnt. >> >> There is a difference between the withAnt and withMaven, since the >> withMaven wrapper needs a separate pipeline maven plugin, while the withAnt >> wrapper seems to be delivered as part of the ant plugin. I don't think >> that difference is especially significant for the documentation. >> > > Well I don't have edit access to jenkins.io, so I've put in the ticket > https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-47076 so that the person > with permissions can get it in. > > I think we can contribute to jenkins.io, even without edit access.
We need to fork the jenkins.io github repository <https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io>, make the proposed changes in a fork, submit a pull request.and rely on the maintainers of that site to review the pull request. Mark Waite > > >> Mark Waite >> >> >>> >>> 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 >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> http://mtu.net/~jpschewe >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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/CALpcnoxq5f1_0dDxXYvYu9xxoErnrTd86Gtw1_C59pyt0M7CvA%40mail.gmail.com >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CALpcnoxq5f1_0dDxXYvYu9xxoErnrTd86Gtw1_C59pyt0M7CvA%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/bd064708-b4e2-4d9d-bfbc-bc5fae3e7474%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/bd064708-b4e2-4d9d-bfbc-bc5fae3e7474%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 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/CAO49JtFp%2Bg-Hw3iT-kqS7rYSUJhWNa4yLva1dy5SczTEypAoRw%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtFp%2Bg-Hw3iT-kqS7rYSUJhWNa4yLva1dy5SczTEypAoRw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . > > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > http://mtu.net/~jpschewe > > -- > 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/CALpcnowh%3DFEzh09LiuoeLQrF-iuNWpQ8pCQs%3DSHRXhwbV%3D6NiA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CALpcnowh%3DFEzh09LiuoeLQrF-iuNWpQ8pCQs%3DSHRXhwbV%3D6NiA%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. 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