Calling functions in Jenkins Shared Libraries

[Chris Shannon]

I've been using Jenkins shared libraries for quite a while, but something just popped up which is confusing me quite a bit. Instead of just creating steps, I'm now trying to create a full declarative pipeline inside the shared library.

In any case, what I'm finding is that this works great when my pipeline is defined directly inside the call method. As soon as I do a simple function call, I get errors like:

hudson.remoting.ProxyException: groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: any for class

To be clear, here is working code:




def call() {

  pipeline {

    agent any




    stages {

      stage("Stage") {

        steps {

          echo "hi"

        }

      }

    }

  }

}

And here is non-working code:




def call() {

  execute()

}




def execute() {

  pipeline {

    agent any




    stages {

      stage("Stage") {

        steps {

          echo "hi"

        }

      }

    }

  }

}

For reasons beyond this post, we are trying to add some commonality and argument checking to our steps, which is why I'd like to be able to use that concept of the extra function call..

Any help/pointers would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Chris

[mar...@gmail.com]

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