Creating a freestyle Jenkins job

This section describes how to create a freestyle Jenkins job.

Method

At first, you’ll need to define several variables:

• Project folder name should be set to the folder where you want the job to be created.

    def projectFolderName = "${PROJECT_NAME}"
  

  Note: The projectFolderName variable should be always set to ${PROJECT_NAME} and nothing else, since this is parameterised by the Cartridge Loader job.

• The freestyle job:

  Put your job name in place of the placeholder <JOB_NAME>.

    def buildAppJob = freeStyleJob(projectFolderName + "/<JOB_NAME>")
  

Once you’ve defined the necessary variables, you can start setting up your job.

The job skeleton should be as follows:

Don’t forget to use the preBuildCleanup() build wrapper which will clean the Jenkins workspace.

buildAppJob.with {
    description("This job builds Java Spring reference application")
    wrappers {
      preBuildCleanup()
    }
    
    <JOB_CONFIGURATION_GOES_HERE>
}

Example

def projectFolderName = "${PROJECT_NAME}"
def buildAppJob = freeStyleJob(projectFolderName + "/<JOB_NAME>")
buildAppJob.with {
    description("This job builds Java Spring reference application")
    wrappers {
      preBuildCleanup()
    }
    
  <JOB_CONFIGURATIONS_GO_HERE>
}

More details here:

• Jenkins Job DSL API - freeStyleJob