Making New Plugin (Diff of console, source code, config files etc)

[Jimmy Chen]

Dear Jenkins Dev:

In one of my classes with a group of students we are working to develop a new plugin to jenkins and we were wondering more information about the process of adding a plugin, if there are any plugins that are similar to the plugin idea we are making and any suggestions you had to make such a plugin.

For our plugin, we are working to make a comparison of several elements of jenkins job such as the source code, the console output and the config file. From this comparison, we can track changes in each build which can be used for debugging or performance metrics. An example of this is in build 3 a new file was added and through a gui we can see the name of the file and the contents of the file. We can also look at other parts of the source code. For an example if in build1 we modified main.java and added a line the gui will have a copy of both versions of the code and mark the differences. 

Thanks,

Group of students

[Oleg Nenashev]

AFAIK there is no plugins directly addressing this things.
Several related bits:

• https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Artifact+Diff+Plugin
  
• https://github.com/ablage/visual-diff-plugin (not published)
  
• Job Config History allows to configure Jenkins item configs accross revisions, but I doubt it's a case you are interested in.

So the functionality may be interesting. BTW it would make sense to provide more info about your plans.

четверг, 19 ноября 2015 г., 4:26:57 UTC+3 пользователь Jimmy Chen написал: