Jenkins Plugin categories - upload /download

[Vince Webb]

Hello
I'm searching for a plugin that I feel must exist already but I can't find it. I've got to thinking that perhaps the reason I can't find it is a weakness in the plugin categorisations.

The terms "upload" and "download" are well understood when the user's local computer is either the source or destination of the file transfer.

Local computer to remote computer is Upload
Remote compure to local computer is Download.

When neither computer is local to the user then use of these terms becomes open to interpretation.

There is a Jenkins plugin category named "Artifact uploaders". It mostly has plugins for uploading a build output to a place of publication.

What I'm looking for is a plugin for pulling files from a remote place into the Jenkins workspace for use by a build. You might categorise this as a download, if you do then you would expect to find it in a category of plugins whose name includes the word DOWNLOAD.

I've found no such category, my search for a plugin to get files from HTTP URLs listed in a file has proved fruitless so far. Thus I am contemplating writing my own plugin even though I feel sure such a plugin must already exist.

Vince

[Ginga, Dick]

Hi Vince You can of course insert a Batch/Shell step that copies anything you want.

 

There is, under Build Environment section:

 

Run buildstep before SCM runs – from the Pre SCM BuildStep Plugin

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[vince webb]

Hello Dick

Thank you for your reply. I'm thinking about this download of multiple files not for a single Jenkins job but for numerous different jobs each of which will require a different list of files. Thus I figured:

Step 1 get a file which contains a list of URLs

Step 2 get a file from each of the URLs identified by the file got in step 1

Because I envisage these steps being repeated in numerous similar jobs I would like configuration to be as simple as possible. Use of a plugin should give less scope for error than pasting in a script.

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[Richard Bywater]

Is https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/URL+SCM something like you are looking for?

Richard.

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