The document discusses plugin development for Jenkins using Gradle and Groovy. It presents Gradle as a build tool for Jenkins plugins that can generate the plugin file and deploy it. Groovy is highlighted as a programming language that can be used along with Java for plugin development. Spock is recommended as a testing framework that works with the constraints of Groovy 1.8 used in Jenkins. Examples of building, testing, and deploying plugins with Gradle and Groovy are also provided.

1. Plugin Development with Gradle and Groovy
Daniel Spilker – CoreMedia AG

2. #jenkinsconf
Plugin Development – It‘s Your Choice
• Build Tool
– Maven, Gradle, …
• Programming Language
– Java, Groovy, Ruby, Python, …
• Testing
– JUnit, Spock, …

3. #jenkinsconf
Plugin Development – It‘s Your Choice
• Build Tool
– Maven, Gradle, …
• Programming Language
– Java, Groovy, Ruby, Python, …
• Testing
– JUnit, Spock, …

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Gradle JPI Plugin

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Gradle JPI Plugin
• Builds the Jenkins plugin file (HPI / JPI)
• Can be combined with other Gradle plugins
• Hooks into the standard Gradle tasks
• Recommended prerequisites
– Java 7
– Gradle 2.3

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Example
buildscript { … }
apply plugin: 'org.jenkins-ci.jpi'
group = 'org.jenkins-ci.plugins'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
description = 'A description of your plugin'
jenkinsPlugin {
coreVersion = '1.580'
displayName = 'Hello World'
url = 'http://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Hello+World'
gitHubUrl = 'https://github.com/jenkinsci/hello-world-plugin'
developers { … }
}

7. #jenkinsconf
Directory Structure
hello-world-plugin
+---build.gradle
---src
+---main
| +---groovy
| ---resources
---test
+---groovy
---resources

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Gradle Tasks
• gradle server
– Start a Jenkins instance with the plugin installed for
manual testing
• gradle jpi
– Build the Jenkins plugin file
• gradle publish
– Deploy your plugin to the Jenkins Maven repository to
be included in the Update Center

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Further Information
• Documentation
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Gradle+JPI+Plugin
• Issue Tracker
https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS/component/16321
• Jenkins Developer Mailing List
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/jenkinsci-dev
• Example
https://github.com/jenkinsci/job-dsl-plugin

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Groovy

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Groovy
• All documentation and examples about plugin
development with Java also apply to Groovy
• Jenkins comes with Groovy 1.8

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Example
class HelloWorldBuilder extends Builder {
final String name
@DataBoundConstructor
HelloWorldBuilder(String name) { … }
@Override
boolean perform(…) {
listener.logger.println("Hello, ${name}!")
true
}
}

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Further Information
• Groovy
http://www.groovy-lang.org/
http://www.groovy-lang.org/groovy-weekly.html
http://glaforge.appspot.com/article/groovy-presentations-at-conferences
• Developing Plugins
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Extend+Jenkins
• Example
https://github.com/jenkinsci/hello-world-groovy-plugin

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Spock Framework

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Spock Framework
• Spock 0.7 must be used due to Groovy 1.8 constraint
• Gradle dependency declaration
dependencies {
testCompile 'org.spockframework:spock-core:0.7-groovy-1.8'
}
• The Jenkins test harness can be used
@Rule
JenkinsRule jenkinsRule = new JenkinsRule()

16. #jenkinsconf
Example
class ExampleSpec extends Specification {
@Rule
JenkinsRule jenkinsRule = new JenkinsRule()
def 'some example test'() {
setup:
FreeStyleProject job = jenkinsRule.createFreeStyleProject('seed')
when:
FreeStyleBuild freeStyleBuild = job.scheduleBuild2(0).get()
then:
freeStyleBuild.result == SUCCESS
}
}

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Further Information
• Documentation
http://docs.spockframework.org/
• Testing plugins
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Unit+Test

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Summary – It‘s Your Choice
• Build Tool
– Maven, Gradle, …
• Programming Language
– Java, Groovy, Ruby, Python, …
• Views
– Jelly, Groovy
• Testing
– JUnit, Spock, …

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Thank You
Daniel Spilker
daniel.spilker@coremedia.com
@daspilker
We‘re hiring
www.coremedia.com
@CoreMediaMinds