Clean up after build using build flow plugin

[Katie Outram]

After the build completes, I need to clean up the workspace that was created during execution of the build.   The workspace is defined in our scripts that get executed during the build.

 

what this comes down to is I want to remove the contents of the directory (bParent.build.properties.environment('GIT_TREE')) except a specific child folder in that directory.

 

From bash I can do this by executing

 

 

find <bParent.build.properties.environment('GIT_TREE')> -mindepth 1 -type d ! -iname images -exec rm -rf {} \;

where <bParent.build.properties.environment('GIT_TREE')> is translated to my working path.

However when I have tried to even print my command at the end of my build execution I end up with an error.

What I have tried (along with some variations) at this point is:

shell(find ${bParent.build.properties.environment['GIT_TREE']} -mindepth 1 -type d ! -iname images )  - this fails with

Script1.groovy: 44: unexpected token: $ @ line 44, column 15.

     shell( find ${bParent.build.properties.environment['GIT_TREE']} -mindepth 1 -type d ! -iname images

 

 println (find bParent.build.properties.environment['GIT_TREE'] -mindepth 1 -type d ! -iname images).execute - this fails with

Script1.groovy: 42: unexpected token: bParent @ line 42, column 15.

   println (find bParent.build.properties.environment['GIT_TREE'] -mindepth 1 -type d ! -iname images)

 

a basic

  println bParent.build.properties.environment['GIT_TREE']  gives me the directory I want to clean up

 

 

I don't want to put this in a separate shell script and build job to keep our build graph clean and to not confuse our developers.    I want this to execute at the end of the current process.  Does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle this situation? 

  

 

[Baptiste Mathus]

Either try to use the workspace cleanup plugin and/or some groovy step to do that and retrieve that variable?
My 2 cents

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[John Mellor]

Ø  Either try to use the workspace cleanup plugin and/or some groovy step to do that and retrieve that variable?

 

We use git, so ymmv.  Rather than cleaning up at the end of a build, I just leave it all there and check the “Wipe out repository & force clone” selection in the “Additional Behaviours” section of “Source Code Management”.  That will checkout a whole new workspace every time the build starts, which I believe will have the same effect as what you are attempting.

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[Katie Outram]

So what I have done so far is  

 

cleanup=bParent.build.properties.environment('GIT_TREE')

  println "find ${cleanup} -maxdepth 1 -not -name images -type f -exec rm -f {} +".execute().text

 

However, the

  println "find ${cleanup} -maxdepth 1 -not -name images -type f -exec rm -f {} +".execute().text

does not execute within the build flow plugin that we are using.

 

I have done just a

  println "find ${cleanup} -maxdepth 1 -not -name images -type f -exec rm -f {} +"  - and this line is correct, and I can run this manually and it works

 

 

Does anyone have suggestions on how to make this work using the build flow plugin?

[Katie Outram]

The information below does work as long as the location can see the child directory that needs to be cleaned up.