User input in declarative pipeline

[Bert]

Hello everyone,

One of the CloudBees support articles describes how to do a user input in a pipeline script, as alternative for the promoted builds plug-in. I'm trying to do that, but then with a declarative pipeline definition.

I know that's possible through a script block inside the pipeline definition, but I'd like to prevent that and stay in the declarative model.

Is that possible?

Thanks in advance,

Bert

[Bill Dennis]

I've seen it used in a 'when' condition - in this example online: https://github.com/sta-szek/pojo-tester/blob/master/Jenkinsfile

Here is an extract from that:

when {
    expression {
        boolean publish = false
        if (env.DEPLOYPAGES == "true") {
            return true
        }
        try {
            timeout(time: 1, unit: 'MINUTES') {
                input 'Deploy pages?'
                publish = true
            }
        } catch (final ignore) {
            publish = false
        }
        return publish
    }
}

But is doesn't seem to usable as a 'first class' step in a steps section without dropping into script.

Bill