Jenkins pipeline: No such DSL method

Question

With this code i got an error in Jenkins pipeline. I don`t get it why? Am I missing something?

node {    stage 'test'    def whatThe = someFunc('textToFunc')    {def whatThe2 = someFunc2('textToFunc2')} }   def someFunc(String text){     echo text     text } def someFunc2(String text2){     echo text2     text2 } 

Error:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: **No such DSL method 'someFunc'** found among [archive, bat, build, catchError, checkout, deleteDir, dir, echo, emailext, emailextrecipients, error, fileExists, git, input, isUnix, load, mail, node, parallel, properties, pwd, readFile, readTrusted, retry, sh, sleep, stage, stash, step, svn, timeout, timestamps, tool, unarchive, unstash, waitUntil, withCredentials, withEnv, wrap, writeFile, ws]         at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.DSL.invokeMethod(DSL.java:124)         at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsScript.invokeMethod(CpsScript.java:117)         at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethodOnGroovyObject(MetaClassImpl.java:1280)         at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1174)         at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1024)         at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaClassSite.call(PogoMetaClassSite.java:42)         at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:48)         at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:113)         at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.sandbox.DefaultInvoker.methodCall(DefaultInvoker.java:15)         at WorkflowScript.run(WorkflowScript:4)         at ___cps.transform___(Native Method)         at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ContinuationGroup.methodCall(ContinuationGroup.java:55)         at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.FunctionCallBlock$ContinuationImpl.dispatchOrArg(FunctionCallBlock.java:106)         at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.FunctionCallBlock$ContinuationImpl.fixArg(FunctionCallBlock.java:79)         at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor878.invoke(Unknown Source)         at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)         at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ContinuationPtr$ContinuationImpl.receive(ContinuationPtr.java:72)         at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ClosureBlock.eval(ClosureBlock.java:40)         at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.Next.step(Next.java:58)         at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.Continuable.run0(Continuable.java:154)         at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThread.runNextChunk(CpsThread.java:164)         at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup.run(CpsThreadGroup.java:360)         at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup.access$100(CpsThreadGroup.java:80)         at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup$2.call(CpsThreadGroup.java:236)         at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup$2.call(CpsThreadGroup.java:226)         at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsVmExecutorService$2.call(CpsVmExecutorService.java:47)         at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)         at hudson.remoting.SingleLaneExecutorService$1.run(SingleLaneExecutorService.java:112)         at jenkins.util.ContextResettingExecutorService$1.run(ContextResettingExecutorService.java:28)         at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)         at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)         at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)         at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)         at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)     Finished: FAILURE 

Answer 1

remove the extra brackets from around the sumfunc2 invocation:

node {    stage 'test'    def whatThe = someFunc('textToFunc')    def whatThe2 = someFunc2('textToFunc2') }  def someFunc(String text){     echo text     text } def someFunc2(String text2){     echo text2     text2 } 

Update:

In Groovy if a method's last argument is of type Closure, then when calling the method the closure can be outside of the brackets like:

def foo(whatever, Closure c) {}  // Can be invoked as foo(whatever, {     // This is the second argument of foo of type Closure })  // It is also the same as writing foo(whatever) {     // This is the second argument of foo of type Closure } 

The reason that the original throws is because the following code

def whatThe = someFunc('textToFunc') {def whatThe2 = someFunc2('textToFunc2')} 

is the same code as

def whatThe = someFunc('textToFunc') {     def whatThe2 = someFunc2('textToFunc2') } 

This means that what the interpreter will be looking for is

someFunc(String text, Closure c) 

and there is no such method