[workflow-plugin] Passing parameters to triggered jobs

[excessgr]

I'm a bit confused as to how to pass parameters to triggered jobs.
The snippet generator says I can pass a list of ParameterValues, but I'm really unfamiliar with the internals of jenkins so I'm not sure how I can pass this list.

I assume this is what the list should look like:

ArrayList<ParameterValue> parameters=new ArrayList<ParameterValue>();
parameters.add(new hudson.model.StringParameterValue('PARAM','123'));

However I'm checking the constructor of the build step and there is no such parameter to pass through.
How do I use the setter before the build is executed?

Thanks.

[James Nord]

Hi,

the syntax is something like

ArrayList<ParameterValue> yourparamaters=new ArrayList<ParameterValue>();

yourparamaters.add(new hudson.model.StringParameterValue('PARAM','123'));

build  job: 'yourJobNameToBuild', parameters: yourparamaters

you can also shorthand this if you don;t need to re-use the same parameters

build  job: 'yourJobNameToBuild', parameters: [new hudson.model.StringParameterValue('PARAM1','123'), new hudson.model.StringParameterValue('PARAM2','345')]

However - I would caution against using the workflow to trigger other jobs if you can - It's ideal is to self contain the workflow and steps in a single place so you don't have configuration sprawl (the workflow and all the configuration of it is defined in one single place).

/James

[excessgr]

Thank you James!
Eventually yes we'd like to merge them all into one job, but since for now the plugin is missing support for some build steps that we're using, I guess this is the only way to get it done.

[Jesse Glick]

On Monday, November 24, 2014 at 6:19:15 AM UTC-5, James Nord wrote:

build  job: 'yourJobNameToBuild', parameters: [new hudson.model.StringParameterValue('PARAM1','123'), new hudson.model.StringParameterValue('PARAM2','345')]

Though this should be replaced with a more idiomatic form requiring no direct access to Jenkins APIs: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-26093