Jenkins Ant and dynamic build.properties files

Question

I have a single code based being used to build an application for multiple platforms.

Locally I have setup a main build-env.properties file, and a series of additional *.properties files that I use to switch settings for the different platforms I am publishing to.

Doing my build on the command line I simply use the command:

ant build -propertyfile dev-build.properties

How can I do this in Jenkins?

I currently use the "Invoke Ant" Build Step with the target set to build, but am at a loss for how to specify the secondary propertyfile?

Answer 1

Although not exactly the same, you can take the contents of those properties and put them into the Jenkins Invoke Ant build step, utilizing the properties advanced field.

The most basic way:

• You will need to create a new task for each different set of sub properties you wish to utilize.

• In your "Invoke Ant" build step, if you press Advanced..., this reveals a "Properties" field, you can copy the properties from one of your *.properties files into that field.

• Repeat for each different properties file you wish to utilize.

Answer 2

Parametrized build plugin might help you. This is assuming the number of properties you are changing is one or two. So when you run a job, you get a drop-down to select you OS and go.

Though, as I have mentioned here , what goes against this plugin is that it makes the process manual

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On this thread Hudson / Jenkins: share parameters between several jobs you can read the 2nd option in Anders's answer as an alternate approach.