[JIRA] (JENKINS-61665) withAnt - automatically use correct shell

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stefan.drissen@gmail.com (JIRA)

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Mar 24, 2020, 9:33:02 AM3/24/20

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JENKINS-61665

withAnt - automatically use correct shell

Issue Type:	Improvement
Assignee:	Francisco Fernández
Components:	ant-plugin, pipeline
Created:	2020-03-24 13:32
Environment:	Jenkins 2.226
Priority:	Major
Reporter:	Stefan Drissen

The declarative pipeline offers the withAnt build step. Unfortunately this only sets up the Ant environment and then uses a shell (bat / sh) to execute Ant within that environment.

While the work-around as documented on https://plugins.jenkins.io/ant/ works:

 
                                                                withAnt(installation: 'myinstall') {
    dir("scoring") {
    if (isUnix()) {
      sh "ant mytarget"
    } else {
      bat "ant mytarget"
    }
}
 
                                                            

Needing to detect the operating system for a tool that works on all operating systems is plain clunky and immediately raises the difficulty bar when migrating from freestyle jobs. Freestyle jobs allow you to simply use Ant without you having to worry about which operating system is being used.

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fjfernandez@cloudbees.com (JIRA)

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Mar 25, 2020, 3:41:02 AM3/25/20

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Francisco Fernández assigned an issue to Unassigned

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JENKINS-61665

withAnt - automatically use correct shell

Change By:	Francisco Fernández
Assignee:	Francisco Fernández