Set upstream projects with the Jenkins API

[Sverre Moe]

Using the Jenkins API I am trying to find a way to set the upstream projects for a given job/project.

From the API Javadocs http://javadoc.jenkins-ci.org/?hudson/model/AbstractProject.html I can only find getters for this:

getUpstreamProjects()

getTransitiveUpstreamProjects()

Is there any way using the API I could set upstream projects? 

I do not want to create a build trigger with upstream projects, because I do not want to build transitive upstream projects. I will instead use Groovy to iterate the upstream projects and schedule a build for each of them.

My last resort would be to add upstream projects directly as XML to config.xml

This is what I could find in config.xml

  <triggers>

    <jenkins.triggers.ReverseBuildTrigger>

      <spec></spec>

      <upstreamProjects>myLib++</upstreamProjects>

      <threshold>

        <name>SUCCESS</name>

        <ordinal>0</ordinal>

        <color>BLUE</color>

        <completeBuild>true</completeBuild>

      </threshold>

    </jenkins.triggers.ReverseBuildTrigger>

  </triggers>

This is what I could find in

http://SERVER/job/JOBNAME/api/xml

<upstreamProject>

<name>myLib++</name>

<url>

http://ci.company.com:8080/job/myLib++/

</url>

<color>blue</color>

</upstreamProject>

Could not find any configuration in config.xml for upstream projects without a build trigger.