Storing pipeline script "as-is", in config.xml?

[Michael Hüttermann]

Hello,

setting up a Jenkins 2 pipeline script, it will be stored with special chars in config.xml. Example:

stage('Setup') 

 Is it possible to force Jenkins to store the snippet as it was insert into the build job, in this example:

 stage('Setup')

 thank you.

 Best regards,

 Michael

 

[Baptiste Mathus]

It's not possible.

Though my gut feelings are in warning mode on this question: do not trying to play with the XML files directly in general. See those as an internal storage format (which they are BTW).

So if you explain a bit more what you're trying to achieve from a user perspective we'll be able to give you more relevant advice hopefully.

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[Christopher Orr]

Hi,

On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, at 15:41, 'Michael Hüttermann' via Jenkins Users
wrote:

> setting up a Jenkins 2 pipeline script, it will be stored with special
> chars in config.xml. Example:
> stage('Setup')
>
> Is it possible to force Jenkins to store the snippet as it was insert
> into the build job, in this example:
> stage('Setup')

Unlikely, as Jenkins is just doing plain old XML serialisation, and
`'` is the predefined XML entity for the apostrophe character.
You're not likely to get more control over how the XML is serialised.

At least for me, POSTing a config.xml without entities, and then
fetching it again does return the original XML that I POSTed, e.g.
`stage('First') { echo 'hey' }`.

If you need the XML without entities, just run it through your XML
processor of choice, for example:
$ curl -s http://localhost:8080/job/test/config.xml | xmllint --format -
…
<script>stage('First') { echo 'hey' }</script>
…

Regards,
Chris