[JIRA] (JENKINS-61066) Schedule Jenkins job using Jenkins Rest API

[prasanna.rengarajan.external@telefonica.com (JIRA)]

Prasanna Rengarajan created an issue

Jenkins / JENKINS-61066 Schedule Jenkins job using Jenkins Rest API Issue Type: Improvement Assignee: Martin Spielmann Components: _unsorted, schedule-build-plugin Created: 2020-02-12 11:19 Labels: jenkins plugin Priority: Minor Reporter: Prasanna Rengarajan I have a Jenkins job which is scheduled for a specific time. I want to modify that timing programmatically. I tried to modify the build by installing Schedule Build plugin and modify it using http://jenkins_url/job/jobname/build?delay=3344sec. But this will put the job in quiet period which holds the java thread. I'm looking to modify the Schedule entry without putting it to quiet period. Add Comment

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Jenkins / JENKINS-61066 Schedule Jenkins job using Jenkins Rest API

Change By: Gavin Mogan Component/s: _unsorted

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Gavin Mogan commented on JENKINS-61066

Re: Schedule Jenkins job using Jenkins Rest API Can you update this ticket with a use case. "Because I want it" is a bad reason to add new features.   Can you use the cron trigger? https://jenkins.io/doc/book/pipeline/syntax/#triggers   When you say "holds the java thread" what do you mean? that it takes up an executor/node on the sidebar?

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Gavin Mogan updated an issue

Jenkins / JENKINS-61066

Schedule Jenkins job using Jenkins Rest API

Change By: Gavin Mogan Issue Type: Improvement New Feature

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[ian.williams1@telus.com (JIRA)]

Ian Williams commented on JENKINS-61066

Re: Schedule Jenkins job using Jenkins Rest API (not the OP, but my interpretation; may be misinterpreting something) Build periodically/Schedule Job (ie: cron) works fine as an ongoing solution, if you wan to repeatedly run the job on a schedule. At the other end of the spectrum you have "Build Now". We have a number of scenarios where we want to build not now, but later today. It's essentially the difference between using UNIX cron and at, or running a command immediately. It is not convenient to change the configuration of the job so it can run later, then undo the change once run. Also, unless you have Job Configure, that option is not available to you. It should be available to users who have only Job | Build.

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[prasanna.rengarajan.external@telefonica.com (JIRA)]

Prasanna Rengarajan commented on JENKINS-61066

Re: Schedule Jenkins job using Jenkins Rest API

Hi Gavin Mogan, From External Application, we want to update the cron entry or override the schedule timing of a jenkins job. We are trying to create a jenkins job (called Job A) which will update or override the schedule timing of another Jenkins Job(called Job B)

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Ian Williams commented on JENKINS-61066

Re: Schedule Jenkins job using Jenkins Rest API

One other scenario .. we have scheduled job that runs but depends on an independent system's maintenance activities to have completed. On the rare occasion that does not complete in time, would be nice to.have a post-build action to retry after an interval. Right now, we must manually trigger when discovered.

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Ian Williams commented on JENKINS-61066

Re: Schedule Jenkins job using Jenkins Rest API

I was just investigating a separate issue regarding plugins and came across: [naginator pluginhttps://plugins.jenkins.io/naginator]. This plugin allows you to automatically reschedule a build after a build failure. This can be useful in several cases, including: The build is dependent upon external resources, that were temporarily unavailable (DB down, network down, website down, etc). I wonder if that is the same expected behaviour? I will be investigating if it suits my needs.

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Ian Williams edited a comment on JENKINS-61066

Re: Schedule Jenkins job using Jenkins Rest API

I was just investigating a separate issue regarding plugins and came across: [naginator pluginhttps plugin|https ://plugins.jenkins.io/naginator]. {quote}

This plugin allows you to automatically reschedule a build after a build failure. This can be useful in several cases, including:

The build is dependent upon external resources, that were temporarily unavailable (DB down, network down, website down, etc).{quote}

I wonder if that is the same expected behaviour? I will be investigating if it suits my needs.

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