Pulling a file from another job before building in Jenkins?

Question

Hope you can help me on this one. I have a job called "Template" that generates a template.xml file. I have several other jobs that use this template.xml file. However, before they build, i wanted that they could pull the latest template.xml from the "Template" job workspace.

Answer 1

I used Copy Artifacts plugin with Jenkinsfile. Here an example:

In the job that is producing the artifact you should do something like:

pipeline {
 options {
  copyArtifactPermission ‘*’ //Here you can specify the job name also
}
  stages {
    stage(“Run") {
      ...
      archiveArtifacts artifacts: “my_artifact.yaml"
    }
  }
}

In the job that is consuming the artifact you can use something like:

stage("Consumer") {
  steps {
    script {
        copyArtifacts filter: “my_artifact.yaml", projectName: 'PRODUCER_JOB', 
          selector: lastSuccessful()

    }
  }
}

Answer 2

In your "template" job, under Post-Build Actions, choose to artifact your xml file using the archive option.

You can then use the "Copy Artifact Plugin" to copy it over to all other jobs.

Jenkins Job Setup for Artifact Generator Project:

Jenkins Job Setup for Artifact User Project: