Using Jenkins as an automation server for your development, you can automate such repeating tasks as testing and deploying your app.
Starting with a sample Groovy App (a simple calculator) with tests, you will learn how to integrate your app in Jenkins and build a pipeline, so that Jenkins runs the desired tasks every time, you change the code.
You should clone the demo repository into you demo account, because you may change some file during this post., and you will not get write permissions for the demo repository.
Also, clone the repository to your local machine to see what our demo app looks like.
$ cd SampleApp_GroovyCalculator/
$ ls
Jenkinsfile README.md bin build.gradle gradlew src
Makefile SampleCalculator build gradle settings.gradle
The first task, Jenkins will do in our pipeline: build your app
$ ./gradlew build
Because it’s the first time you start gradlew, the required software will be downloaded:
First: the current Gradle Version (Gradle is the Build Tool used by Groovy Projects)
Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.2.1-bin.zip
………10%………20%………30%……….40%………50%………60%……….70%………80%………90%……….100%
Welcome to Gradle 6.2.1!
Here are the highlights of this release:
- Dependency checksum and signature verification
- Shareable read-only dependency cache
- Documentation links in deprecation messages
For more details see https://docs.gradle.org/6.2.1/release-notes.html
Starting a Gradle Daemon, 2 stopped Daemons could not be reused, use --status for details
After this, your app will be tested
> Task :test
Calculator02Spec > two plus two should equal four PASSED
Calculator01Spec > add: 2 + 3 PASSED
Calculator01Spec > subtract: 4 - 3 PASSED
Calculator01Spec > multiply: 2 * 3 PASSED
BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 34s
5 actionable tasks: 5 executed
Perform the build again
No download is required. The build is much quicker.
mvn -U archetype:generate -Dfilter="io.jenkins.archetypes:global-configuration-plugin"
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-metadata.xml
Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/codehaus/mojo/maven-metadata.xml
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-metadata.xml (14 kB at 32 kB/s)
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/codehaus/mojo/maven-metadata.xml (20 kB at 44 kB/s)
Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/maven-metadata.xml
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/maven-metadata.xml (918 B at 18 kB/s)
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------< org.apache.maven:standalone-pom >-------------------
[INFO] Building Maven Stub Project (No POM) 1
[INFO] --------------------------------[ pom ]---------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] >>> maven-archetype-plugin:3.1.2:generate (default-cli) > generate-sources @ standalone-pom >>>
[INFO]
[INFO] <<< maven-archetype-plugin:3.1.2:generate (default-cli) < generate-sources @ standalone-pom <<<
[INFO]
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-archetype-plugin:3.1.2:generate (default-cli) @ standalone-pom ---
[INFO] Generating project in Interactive mode
[INFO] No archetype defined. Using maven-archetype-quickstart (org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-quickstart:1.0)
Choose archetype:
1: remote -> io.jenkins.archetypes:global-configuration-plugin (Skeleton of a Jenkins plugin with a POM and an example piece of global configuration.)
Choose a number or apply filter (format: [groupId:]artifactId, case sensitive contains): : 1
Choose io.jenkins.archetypes:global-configuration-plugin version:
1: 1.2
2: 1.3
3: 1.4
4: 1.5
5: 1.6
Choose a number: 5:
[INFO] Using property: groupId = unused
Define value for property 'artifactId': com.examples.jenkins.plugins
Define value for property 'version' 1.0-SNAPSHOT: :
[INFO] Using property: package = io.jenkins.plugins.sample
Confirm properties configuration:
groupId: unused
artifactId: com.examples.jenkins.plugins
version: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
package: io.jenkins.plugins.sample
Y: : y
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Using following parameters for creating project from Archetype: global-configuration-plugin:1.6
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Parameter: groupId, Value: unused
[INFO] Parameter: artifactId, Value: com.examples.jenkins.plugins
[INFO] Parameter: version, Value: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] Parameter: package, Value: io.jenkins.plugins.sample
[INFO] Parameter: packageInPathFormat, Value: io/jenkins/plugins/sample
[INFO] Parameter: version, Value: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] Parameter: package, Value: io.jenkins.plugins.sample
[INFO] Parameter: groupId, Value: unused
[INFO] Parameter: artifactId, Value: com.examples.jenkins.plugins
[INFO] Project created from Archetype in dir: /Users/Shared/CLOUD/Kunde.BSH/workspace/SamplePlugin_Config/com.examples.jenkins.plugins
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 45.525 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2020-03-01T17:28:27+01:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Verify Plugin
cd com.examples.jenkins.plugins
mvn verify
Run Plugin
mvn hpi:run
Working with Groovy Scripts
Include a common groovy script in Jenkins file
1: Create a common.groovy file with function as needed
def mycommoncode() {
}
2: In the main Jenkinfile load the file and use the function as shown below
node{
def common = load “common.groovy”
common.mycommoncode()
}
Basic example of Loading Groovy scripts
File example.groovy
def example1() {
println 'Hello from example1'
}
def example2() {
println 'Hello from example2'
}
The example.groovy script defines example1 and example2 functions before ending with return this. Note that return this is definitely required and one common mistake is to forget ending the Groovy script with it.Jenkinsfile
Continuing the demo from the last section, we now put the Groovy code into a callable function in a script called “github.groovy”. Then, in our Jenkinsfile, we proceed to load the script and use the function to process JSON response from Github API.github.groovy
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