How to kickstart a multibranch pipeline scan?

[pisymbol]

I have a job that creates a new branch/tag in SVN. IT does so by modifying some internal build files and then tagging it.

What I would like to do is kickstart a multibranch pipeline scan when that job completes. How can one accomplish this?

Googling has not proven very fruitful. I thought I could either use the "build" syntax or maybe issue a POST of some sort but I'm not 100% sure.

I'd rather manually kickstart the scan than poll if possible and i don't want to build the tag, just have my multibranch pipeline scan and pickup the newly tagged tree with a Jenkinsfile in it (ready and watiing!).

Thanks!

-aps

[Steven Foster]

You can use the "build" step to start a multibranch scan. Just call it on the multibranch job as you would a normal job.

[pisymbol]

Ok, but won't that build the branch in question? What does a sample build step look for the scan operation?

-aps

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[Steven Foster]

That depends on the behaviors configured on the multibranch project. I think by default newly discovered tag jobs don't automatically build.

if you have a multibranch project called "myproject" and it has a couple of branches under it, you can start a scan:

build job: "myproject", wait: false

this is different from building a branch where you'd specify the branch job under it

build "myproject/master"

[pisymbol]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 11:39 AM Steven Foster <steven...@gmail.com> wrote:

That depends on the behaviors configured on the multibranch project. I think by default newly discovered tag jobs don't automatically build.

if you have a multibranch project called "myproject" and it has a couple of branches under it, you can start a scan:

build job: "myproject", wait: false

this is different from building a branch where you'd specify the branch job under it

build "myproject/master"

Thanks Steven. Will give this a whirl! I didn't realize that if you build the project instead of the branch it results in a scan (is that documented anywhere?)

-aps