Interact with Jenkins through Jenkins.jar




To get the help commands from Jenkins,

java -jar /Users/users/Downloads/jenkins-cli.jar -s http://localhost:8080/jenkins/ help

Ref :    
    https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+CLI
    http://localhost:3579/ci/env-vars.html
    https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-11691

Trigger a build from terminal

java -jar /Users/user/Downloads/jenkins-cli.jar -s http://localhost:8080/jenkins/ build DemoJob

Jenkins-cli jar can be downloaded from http://localhost:8080/jenkins/cli

Environment variable values can be accessed from shell($FOO, %FOO%) and Ant ( ${env.FOO} )  like

The parameter are available as environment parameters. So e.g. a shell ($FOO, %FOO%) or Ant ( ${env.FOO} ) can access these values.

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Parameterized+Build

Parameterized Comparisions can be specified like ,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7908043/jenkins-how-to-decide-which-of-the-following-jobs-should-be-executed

Instead of Shell command we can use maven or ant as well.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11548285/need-ant-condition-example
http://blog.stefanjaeger.ch/2008/02/05/ant-contrib/

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Kaleeswaran.S