j2 / j2-yaml for job-template parameters

[Paride Legovini]

Hi, I am trying to use jinja2 to construct a list in a project stanza to be used to realize a job-template, however apparently the list endss up "literal" in the job definition. This example will clarify:

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$ cat test.yaml
- project:
    name: foo
    param: !j2: "{{ [1, 2] }}"
    jobs:
      - bar-{param}

- project:
    name: foo2
    param: !j2-yaml: |
      {% for x in [3, 4] %}
      - {{ x }}
      {% endfor %}
    jobs:
      - bar-{param}

- job-template:
    name: bar-{param}

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$ jenkins-jobs test test.yaml 2>&1 | grep "Job name" 2>/dev/null
INFO:jenkins_jobs.builder:Job name:  bar-[1, 2]
INFO:jenkins_jobs.builder:Job name:  bar-[3, 4]

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What I'd expect are of course the following jobs: bar-1, bar-2, bar-3, bar-4. Am I missing the correct usage of j2 or is this somehow not supported by JJB? This is with JJB 5.0.2:

$ jenkins-jobs --version
Jenkins Job Builder version: 5.0.2

Thanks!

[Vsevolod Fedorov]

Hi, Paride.

!j2 and !j2-yaml are not suitable nor are needed here. This should work:

- project:
    name: foo
    param: [1, 2]

    jobs:
      - bar-{param}

- project:
    name: foo2
    param:

      - 3
      - 4

    jobs:
      - bar-{param}

- job-template:
    name: bar-{param}

Vsevolod.

[Paride Legovini]

Hello and thanks for your reply. I know j2 is not really needed in my example, I just wanted to make it as minimal as possible.

[Vsevolod Fedorov]

No problem.

Just make longer example to show what your actual problem is.

Vsevolod.

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[Paride Legovini]

I was experimenting with generating jobs using an external file
containing newline-separated strings (the output of another tool as you
can imagine):

- project:
name: foo
rawlist: !include-raw: list.inc
param: !j2-yaml: |
{% for element in rawlist.split() %}
- {{ element }}

{% endfor %}
jobs:
- bar-{param}

- job-template:
name: bar-{param}

I know this is ugly, and I'm probably ditching this idea in favor of
having list.inc in yaml format, skipping jinja2. However I still find
that !j2-yaml does not behave as I would expect from the documentation
("it loads the Jinja-rendered string as YAML and embeds it in the
calling YAML construct").

Paride

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