Usage Notes and Tips

Seeding a Perforce Configuration

Take a sample Perforce configuration:

The underlying Jenkins XML representation for this can be found by browsing to the Jenkins project and appending the string '/config.xml' to the URL. For this project, it looks like this:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<project>
  <actions/>
  <description></description>
  <keepDependencies>false</keepDependencies>
  <properties/>
  <scm class="org.jenkinsci.plugins.p4.PerforceScm" plugin="p4@1.3.6-ADOBE-SNAPSHOT">
    <credential>95f4c776-2e2c-4a58-a41c-0af7e23bad31</credential>
    <workspace class="org.jenkinsci.plugins.p4.workspace.ManualWorkspaceImpl">
      <charset>none</charset>
      <pinHost>false</pinHost>
      <name>poje_jenkins_master_test</name>
      <spec>
        <allwrite>false</allwrite>
        <clobber>false</clobber>
        <compress>false</compress>
        <locked>false</locked>
        <modtime>false</modtime>
        <rmdir>false</rmdir>
        <streamName></streamName>
        <line>LOCAL</line>
        <view>//sandbox/users/poje/... //poje_jenkins_master_test/...</view>
      </spec>
    </workspace>
    <populate class="org.jenkinsci.plugins.p4.populate.AutoCleanImpl">
      <have>true</have>
      <force>false</force>
      <modtime>false</modtime>
      <quiet>true</quiet>
      <pin></pin>
      <replace>true</replace>
      <delete>true</delete>
    </populate>
  </scm>

Based on the XML, a Jenkins "seed" project can be created to replicate this by using the following groovy code using the Job-DSL-Plugin.

When the project is built, it will create a new project named "auto-created-project" that will contains the same SCM perforce configuration as the original "Dummy Test Project"

import org.apache.commons.lang.SystemUtils

// Start Job creation.
job("auto-created-project") {
    concurrentBuild(allowConcurrentBuild = false)
    disabled(shouldDisable = true)
    label("Win")
    logRotator(daysToKeep = 7, numToKeep = 10, artifactDaysToKeep = 7, artifactNumToKeep = 10)

    configure { project ->
        project.remove(project / scm) // remove the existing 'scm' element

        project / scm(class: 'org.jenkinsci.plugins.p4.PerforceScm') {

            credential 'fe40e7cf-902b-4de8-ab6a-b7f0cb1a9f6f'

            workspace(class :'org.jenkinsci.plugins.p4.workspace.ManualWorkspaceImpl') {
                charset 'none'
                pinHost 'false'
                name 'poje_jenkins_master_test'

                spec {
                    allwrite 'false'
                    clobber 'false'
                    compress 'false'
                    locked 'false'
                    modtime 'false'
                    rmdir 'false'
                    streamName ''
                    line 'LOCAL'
                    view '//sandbox/users/poje/... //poje_jenkins_master_test/...'
                }
            }

            populate(class:'org.jenkinsci.plugins.p4.populate.AutoCleanImpl') {
                have 'true'
                force 'false'
                modtime 'false'
                quiet 'true'
                pin ''
                replace 'true'
                delete 'true'
            }
        }
    }
}

References

Generic documentation about the DSL Configuration block is located here.