Jenkins Choice parameter Passing to a pipeline Job

Question

Currently I have a pipeline job which has different paramters where one of this parameters is a Choice parameter. Here is the config.xml output of that job parameter:

<hudson.model.ChoiceParameterDefinition>     <choices class="java.util.Arrays$ArrayList">         <a class="string-array">             <string>f1</string>             <string>f2</string>             <string>f3</string>             <string>f4</string>         </a>     </choices>     <name>WHERE</name>     <description>Something</description> </hudson.model.ChoiceParameterDefinition> 

Now I can call this job from a pipeline via by passing a string parameter:

build job: "NameOfTheJob"", parameters:   [     [$class: 'StringParameterValue', name: 'BRANCH', value: "${BRANCH}"],   ] 

But I couldn't get a way to define the parameters for a choice parameter:

I have tried the following:

build job: "NameOfTheJob"", parameters:   [     [$class: 'StringParameterValue', name: 'BRANCH', value: "${BRANCH}"],     [$class: 'ChoiceParameterValue', name: 'WHERE', value: 'F3'],   ] 

But this failed with the following error:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: no known implementation of class hudson.model.ParameterValue is named ChoiceParameterValue 

So the question is: How to define a choice parameters in calling an other pipeline job:

build job: "NameOfTheJob"", parameters:   [     [$class: 'StringParameterValue', name: 'BRANCH', value: "${BRANCH}"],     [$class: '??????', ????],   ] 

Does someone has an example of such thing?

Answer 1

I have seen a working example that uses the below syntax:

build job:'NameOfTheJob', parameters: [       string(name: 'FirstOption', value: "test"),       string(name: 'AnotherOption', value: "test12") ] 

Basically, don't treat the choice parameters in a special manner, just treat them as regular string parameters.

Answer 2

In script mode you can also do it like this, at the moment it is bugged and it expects the choice parameters as a newline delimited string instead of an array. When using the Pipeline and JenkinsFile in script mode you can do a quick fix like follows:

properties(     [parameters([choice(choices: ["A", "B", "C"].join("\n"),     description: 'Some choice parameter',      name: 'SOME_CHOICE')])]) 

You can put this before your first node statement to add parameters to your builds.

Update: example multi select with extended choice parameter plugin in Jenkins pipeline file:

com.cwctravel.hudson.plugins.extended_choice_parameter.ExtendedChoiceParameterDefinition extendedChoiceParameterDefinition = new com.cwctravel.hudson.plugins.extended_choice_parameter.ExtendedChoiceParameterDefinition(     "OPTION_NAME", // name     "PT_CHECKBOX", // type     "option1,option2,option3", // values     null, // projectName     null, // propertyFile     null, // groovyScript     null, // groovyScriptFile     null, // bindings     null, // groovyClasspath     null, // propertyKey     "option1,option2", // defaultValue     null, // defaultPropertyFile     null, // defaultGroovyScript     null, // defaultGroovyScriptFile     null, // defaultBindings     null, // defaultGroovyClasspath     null, // defaultPropertyKey     null, // descriptionPropertyValue     null, // descriptionPropertyFile     null, // descriptionGroovyScript     null, // descriptionGroovyScriptFile     null, // descriptionBindings     null, // descriptionGroovyClasspath     null, // descriptionPropertyKey     null, // javascriptFile     null, // javascript     false, // saveJSONParameterToFile     false, // quoteValue     10, // visible item count     "Select your options", // description     "," //multiSelectDelimiter )  normalChoiceOptions = ["option1","option2"]  properties([         parameters([                 choice(choices: normalChoiceOptions.join("\n"), description: 'Single select option', name: 'SOME_OPTION'),                                 extendedChoiceParameterDefinition         ]) ])