Jenkins trigger, create and remove jobs and folders

jenkins-api-examples

# check if job exists
curl -XGET 'http://jenkins/checkJobName?value=yourJobFolderName' --user user.name:YourAPIToken

# with folder plugin
curl -s -XPOST 'http://jenkins/job/FolderName/createItem?name=yourJobName' --data-binary @config.xml -H "Content-Type:text/xml" --user user.name:YourAPIToken

# without folder plugin
curl -s -XPOST 'http://jenkins/createItem?name=yourJobName' --data-binary @config.xml -H "Content-Type:text/xml" --user user.name:YourAPIToken

# create folder
curl -XPOST 'http://jenkins/createItem?name=FolderName&mode=com.cloudbees.hudson.plugins.folder.Folder&from=&json=%7B%22name%22%3A%22FolderName%22%2C%22mode%22%3A%22com.cloudbees.hudson.plugins.folder.Folder%22%2C%22from%22%3A%22%22%2C%22Submit%22%3A%22OK%22%7D&Submit=OK' --user 'user.name:YourAPIToken' -H "Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

# remove folder / job
curl -XPOST 'http://jenkins/job/FolderName/doDelete' --user 'user.name:YourAPIToken'

# trigger remote job
curl 'http://jenkins/job/yourJobName/build?delay=0sec' --user 'user.name:YourAPIToken'

Hi All,

I need to add parameters while creating the folder. Usually in UI, I do it using the Folders plus plugin which given the option to add environmental variables in the list of parameters.

"com-cloudbees-udson-plugins-folder-properties-EnvVarsFolderProperty": {"properties": "envvar1=test1"}

How do I pass on this while creating the Folder ??

Hi everyone, this gist is pretty old. I would be surprised if these web requests still work. I can take a look if you put the curl -v output for both request and response here (please remove any secrets/tokens from req/resp).

Hi ,

Basically I need to setup a property as below while creating the Folder. I was able to create the folder as per the above shared commands. But clueless how to pass that in curl to setup the properties as well.

Below snippet tells how my properties section look in the config.xml for this Folder.

<properties>
<com.cloudbees.hudson.plugins.folder.properties.EnvVarsFolderProperty plugin="[email protected]">
<properties>envVar1=val1 envVar2=val2 envVar3=val3</properties>
</com.cloudbees.hudson.plugins.folder.properties.EnvVarsFolderProperty>
</properties>

Once you create an item (job) you should be able to overwrite the config.xml file aftwards:

I believe this call will work:

curl -s -XPOST 'http://jenkins/job/FolderName/ProjectName/config.xml' --data-binary @config.xml -H "Content-Type:text/xml" --user user.name:YourAPIToken

or

curl -s -XPUT 'http://jenkins/job/FolderName/ProjectName/config.xml' --data-binary @config.xml -H "Content-Type:text/xml" --user user.name:YourAPIToken