[JIRA] (JENKINS-41623) Variable Expansion in Global Variables Not Occurring

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JENKINS-41623

Variable Expansion in Global Variables Not Occurring

Issue Type:	Bug
Assignee:	Andrew Bayer
Components:	pipeline-model-definition-plugin
Created:	2017/Feb/01 1:08 PM
Environment:	Jenkins 2.32.1 Definition Plugin 0.9.1
Priority:	Minor
Reporter:	Jason Davis

For a given global variable built via: Jenkins -> Manage Jenkins -> Configure System

 
                                                                Name: MYPATH 
Value: ${WORKSPACE}/../path1/${JOB_BASE_NAME}

 
                                                                ...
stage ("stage left") {
    steps {
        echo "MYPATH is: " + MYPATH
...
 
                                                            

The output in the script is:

 
                                                                [Pipeline] echo
MYPATH is: ${WORKSPACE}/../path1/${JOB_BASE_NAME}

In Freestyle scripts the WORKSPACE and JOB_BASE_NAME values are expanded at build time. We use these as a nice way to have a few consistent job behaviors across all jobs, but without variable expansion, it seems we have to build and maintain variables in each job script.