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Jenkins Script Console Tutorial

Jenkins script console allows one to run groovy scripts/code to automate jenkins setup e.g installing plugins, setting configuration parameters. These groovy scripts can be run either through the web ui, or event loaded as scripts using curl from command line. With these groovy scripts, jenkins configurations can be completely automated.

Lets explore this script console and learn how to write/load simple scripts.

Exploring script console

From the jenkins UI, choose Jenkins => Manage Jenkins => Script Console . You should see script console installed, in which run the following,

johnbuhay

import jenkins.*
import hudson.*
import com.cloudbees.plugins.credentials.*
import com.cloudbees.plugins.credentials.common.*
import com.cloudbees.plugins.credentials.domains.*
import com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.sshcredentials.impl.*
import hudson.plugins.sshslaves.*;
import hudson.model.*
import jenkins.model.*
import hudson.security.*

xbeta

import jenkins.model.*;
import hudson.security.*;

// JVM did not like 'hypen' in the class name, it will crap out saying it is
// illegal class name.
class BuildPermission {
  static buildNewAccessList(userOrGroup, permissions) {
    def newPermissionsMap = [:]
    permissions.each {
      newPermissionsMap.put(Permission.fromId(it), userOrGroup)

kellyrob99

@GrabResolver(name='glassfish', root='http://maven.glassfish.org/content/groups/public/')
@GrabResolver(name='jenkins', root='http://maven.jenkins-ci.org/content/repositories/releases')
@GrabResolver(name="github", root="http://kellyrob99.github.com/Jenkins-api-tour/repository")
@Grab('org.kar:hudson-api:0.2-SNAPSHOT')
@GrabExclude('org.codehaus.groovy:groovy')
import static java.net.HttpURLConnection.*
import org.kar.hudson.api.*
import org.kar.hudson.api.cli.HudsonCliApi

String rootUrl = 'http://localhost:8080'