update center json generator...

[Nigel Magnay]

There is an idea kicking (from one of the IRC meetings) around to have the ability to generate an update-center.json file from a Jenkins instance, so that it could expose the plugins that have been built there.

Is the code for generating this available somewhere, rather than me innacurately re-inventing the wheel ?

[Nigel Magnay]

Bump...

[Jesse Farinacci]

https://github.com/search?type=Everything&language=&q=jenkinsci+backend&repo=&langOverride=&x=22&y=12&start_value=1

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[Max Spring]

Nigel,

I am able to build your update-center-repository from https://github.com/magnayn/backend-update-center2.
I installed the hpi into a 1.415 instance successfully.

How do I use it?
If you could shed some light on it, that would be great.

BTW, I had to add a dependency to com.sun:tools:1.6.0 to update-center2/pom.xml to make the build succeed.

Thanks!
-Max

[Nigel Magnay]

If you install the jenkins maven repository server plugin, then the update json should appear within the repository (I somewhere under http://jenkins:8080/plugins/repository/...)

I believe the JSON file is nearly there, but not quite. The master branch moved in backend-update-center2, so I have to rebase it at some point. I believe the two changes necessary are 

a) make the update center be called 'default' (I don't think jenkins recognises it otherwise

b) Include a jenkins WAR file reference - when Jenkins parses the JSON, it bombs if there's no reference to the latest war file in there.

Also I know that kiy0taka has some nifty json-merge stuff that could also go in - I just stalled on available time :-)