How to auto increment a variable for every Jenkins Build

[Faad Sayaou]

Hello everyone,

I would like to auto increment a number for every Jenkins build.  I have a function which reads value (1.0.0.0) from a file which goes as follows 

String IncBuildNum() {

def v= getVersion("path/to/file.xml")

def splitted= v..split('\\.')

splitted[3]= (((splitted[3] +1 as BigDecimal) + 1 ) as String)

return splitted.join('.')

}

However, I will like to increase this number 1 for every Jenkins build. Right now 

Is this possible?

[Justin Harringa]

Any reason you couldn't use the BUILD_NUMBER environment variable for this?

[Faad Sayaou]

The build number gets really large which is something we do not want. Would have been good if there was a way to reset it. 

[Justin Harringa]

You can change nextBuildNumber but there are some implications there. Sounds like you're not only looking for an incrementer but a semantic version handler. You do get new build numbers with multi-branch. I could see something like that working by using a branching strategy for each semantic major.minor release where build number is the patch version.

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