download job config

[Goncalo Gomes]

It would be fantastic if this tool made it possible to download jenkins job configs, i.e build plans

[Radomír Bosák]

@gagomes So, the python-jenkins library which jenkins-cli depends on provides a get_job_config function which returns the job config in XML format. An example of the returned value:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<project>
  <actions/>
  <description></description>
  <keepDependencies>false</keepDependencies>
  <properties/>
  <scm class="hudson.scm.NullSCM"/>
  <canRoam>true</canRoam>
  <disabled>false</disabled>
  <blockBuildWhenDownstreamBuilding>false</blockBuildWhenDownstreamBuilding>
  <blockBuildWhenUpstreamBuilding>false</blockBuildWhenUpstreamBuilding>
  <triggers/>
  <concurrentBuild>false</concurrentBuild>
  <builders>
    <hudson.tasks.Shell>
      <command>for i in $(seq 1000); do
    echo $i
    sleep 1
done
</command>
    </hudson.tasks.Shell>
  </builders>
  <publishers/>
  <buildWrappers/>
</project>

Adding a command which would output such a xml string would be fairly easy.

For me, the output of project.builders would be useful. Is this what you meant by build plans? Or is there some other part of the job config xml you are interested in?

[Goncalo Gomes]

The xml of the job config is exactly what I was suggesting. I am currently using python-jenkins as my work around.

Thank you.