How can I reference full qualified class name in Jenkins Jelly file?

[Cheng Bao]

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In Jenkins jelly file, I have need to use java class object from class name. <j:set var="myProperty" value="${job.getProperty(MyProperty.class)}" /> MyProperty is my custom JobProperty class, which is applied to job However, the above line will not work properly, even I tried <j:set var="myClass" value="${MyProperty.class}" /> or <j:set var="myClass" value="${full.qualified.class.MyProperty.class}" /> myClass object will always been null. How I can use class object from jelly?

[Jesse Glick]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Cheng Bao <cb...@vmware.com> wrote:
> How I can use class object from jelly?

Not easily if at all.

Either switch to a Groovy view; or (my general preference) extract any
logic that is not absolutely trivial into helper methods in Java code
which can be called as instance methods with simply-typed parameters
from something the Jelly view already has available (`it`,
`descriptor`, etc.).

[Cheng Bao]

Hi, thanks, 

writing helper methods is my current workaround. I am looking into groovy.