Jenkins DSL Plugin: How to create a job in an existing jenkins View?

Question

I found the following question regarding job creation and adding to a newly created view with the DSL plugin.

Adding job to newly created view.

How can i add a created job to an existing view with the DSL plugin? I couldn´t find any hint in the documentation. Maybe it is too obvious that i can´t see the solution?

Although i read, that creating a view will cause a re-creation if the view already exists. What means that for the existing projects under this view?

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

You can not add a job to a view that is not managed by the Job DSL. But the views managed by the DSL can contain jobs which are not managed by the DSL.

For example you can have a job called project-a which is managed manually and a job called project-b which is managed by the DSL. And a view managed by the DSL can contain both jobs.

job('project-b') {
}

listView('project-view') {
  jobs {
    name('project-a')
    name('project-b')
  }
}

It's not possible to use the Jenkins API to add a job to a view from a DSL script. The job has to exist before it can be added to a view. But when the scripts is executed, the job is not created immediately. All DSL items are created after the script has been processed.

If you do not want the manage the view with the DSL (but you should), you can try to use a filter-based view configuration. E.g. include all jobs with a name matching a regular expression. Or you can use the View Job Filters Plugin to create more complex filters.