Using HTTP Request plugin to remote control an IDE

[Amaury Laurent]

Hi everyone,

 

I'm interested in using HTTP Request Plugin to remotely control our development environment.

My objectives are:

1-Waiting for my builder to start (maybe in Build Environment section of Jenkins)

2-Trigger a build remotely

3-Periodically query its status

4-Retrieve build results from the server

 

Do you think possible to slightly modify the plugin to make it poll a web server until it gives the correct response ?
Will it be difficult to do (I'm not very experienced in Java development) ?

Regards, Amaury LAURENT.

[Martin d'Anjou]

Sounds like you need to implement a couple of polling loops (a loop to wait for the builder, a loop to query the status). I would do that in the Pipeline DSL. That would be easier than modifying the plugin. For example:

def response = httpRequest 'http://localhost:8080/'
while (response.status != 200) {
    sleep 5
    response = httpRequest 'http://localhost:8080/'
}
// do something with the reponse
println(response)

// trigger another jenkins job
build('otherJob')

I do not know what you mean by "trigger a build". There is the Pipeline DSL build() step which calls anothere jenkins job (https://jenkins.io/doc/pipeline/steps/workflow-support/#build-build-a-job), but I am not sure if this is what you mean.

Martin

[Amaury Laurent]

Hi,

I'm trying to implement your suggestion. Pipeline plugin is really awesome!
I stil have some exception problems but it looks good!

By the way, I plan to make a small diagram to explain my project and its architecture.

Thank you for your help.

Regards, Amaury.

[Amaury Laurent]

For information, this is the architecture I'm working on. The main problem was to make LabVIEW and Jenkins talk to each other...