Parsing an XML file within a Jenkins pipeline

Question

Note:

I posted this question back when I only had a master node in my Jenkins environment. This made serialization a lesser issue as there were no other nodes to communicate with, thus the code here will not run as expected on a multi-node environment (for instance, readFile will only read files from the master node).

In my experience it's better to have your configuration written in other formats (JSON, YAML, Groovy which are all supported natively in Jenkins), or use external tools (such as xmllint on Linux) if you don't have control over the file's format.

Original question:

I have an XML file which I'd like to use as input for a pipeline script. Problem is the XMLParser isn't serializable so I put it in a NonCPS function, but I lost the Node object because of that.

This is the pipeline script:

def buildPlanPath = 'C:\\buildPlan_test.xml'

@NonCPS
groovy.util.Node getBuildPlan(path) {
    new XmlParser().parseText(readFile(path))
}
    
node {
    //def buildPlan = new XmlParser().parseText(readFile(buildPlanPath))
    groovy.util.Node buildPlan = getBuildPlan(buildPlanPath)

    println buildPlan.getClass()
    println buildPlan
    println buildPlan.branch
}

This is an input sample:

<branch name='mybranch'>
    <stage>
        <job name='job11' />
        <job name='job12' />
    </stage>
    <stage>
        <job name='job21' />
        <job name='job22' />
        <job name='job23' />
    </stage>
    <stage>
        <job name='job31' />
    </stage>
</branch>

This is the result:

Started by user admin
[Pipeline] node
Running on master in C:\Jenkins\workspace\pipeline-develop
[Pipeline] {
[Pipeline] readFile
[Pipeline] echo
class java.lang.String
[Pipeline] echo
<branch name='mybranch'>
  <stage>
    <job name='job11' />
    <job name='job12' />
  </stage>
  <stage>
    <job name='job21' />
    <job name='job22' />
    <job name='job23' />
  </stage>
  <stage>
    <job name='job31' />
  </stage>
</branch>
[Pipeline] }
[Pipeline] // node
[Pipeline] End of Pipeline
groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: branch for class: java.lang.String
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter.unwrap(ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:53)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter.getProperty(ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:458)
    at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.sandbox.DefaultInvoker.getProperty(DefaultInvoker.java:25)
    at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.PropertyAccessBlock.rawGet(PropertyAccessBlock.java:17)
    at WorkflowScript.run(WorkflowScript:16)
    at ___cps.transform___(Native Method)
    at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.PropertyishBlock$ContinuationImpl.get(PropertyishBlock.java:62)
    at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.LValueBlock$GetAdapter.receive(LValueBlock.java:30)
    at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.PropertyishBlock$ContinuationImpl.fixName(PropertyishBlock.java:54)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor327.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ContinuationPtr$ContinuationImpl.receive(ContinuationPtr.java:72)
    at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ConstantBlock.eval(ConstantBlock.java:21)
    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:276)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup.access$000(CpsThreadGroup.java:78)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup$2.call(CpsThreadGroup.java:185)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup$2.call(CpsThreadGroup.java:183)
    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

I'm using Jenkins 2.7 with pipeline 2.1, which are currently the latest.

Answer 1

You could use XmlSlurper, it works for me.

def xmlText = new XmlSlurper().parse(MyURL)
xmlText.data.artifact.each {******