Extending the json/xml API

[ssuther...@gmail.com]

I have an external application that monitors some of our Jenkins jobs, and am using the json api to grab status info.

We also use the Build Failure Analyzer plugin to determine failure causes, but the result is not returned through the json api.

Is there a convenient way to extend what the json (or xml) api provides in order to add this or any other build meta data? Alternately, is there a different way to access this information (through the cli maybe?)

Thanks

-Sean 

[Khai Do]

We use the python-jenkins (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-jenkins) library to access build info, the output is in json.  It's open source (apache license) so you can just extend it to grab additional meta data about each build.