Running a Jenkins job from a shell script

[Alan Evangelista]

I want to execute a Jenkins job run from a script, which is itself cloned from a git repo and called
in a shell build step by another Jenkins job. I need a Jenkins user and Jenkins user API token to run
a Jenkins job via its HTTP API. Is it possible to access the Jenkins user and user API token in the
script
mentioned above? I thought they would be available via shell environment variable, but it seems it
is not.

ps: I do not want to use Jenkins UI to setup the first Jenkins Job execution from the second.

[Warren Postma]

Why don't you have your script execute some HTTP action with CURL which might trigger Jenkins?

W

On Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 9:35:30 AM UTC-5, Alan Evangelista wrote:

[Alan Evangelista]

I do not need help in how to call the HTTP API. Triggering a Jenkins job requires the Jenkins API token;
my question is to how to have this Jenkins API token without hardcoding it in the script. The script
is in a public git repo and I dont want the Jenkins API token available to everyone.

As Jenkins user and user API token are not available via Jenkins env variables, the solution I found is
to put this data in a file (always in same path) in each Jenkins slave and the script opens the file
to get the data.


Regards,
Alan Evangelista

[Michael Giroux]

If you are referring to the authtoken from build triggers, you could retrieve it using the jenkins cli to retrieve the config.xml for the job and extract the authToken element.

 <jdk>(System)</jdk>

  <authToken>xxxyyy</authToken>

  <triggers/>

  <concurrentBuild>false</concurrentBuild>