How do I trigger another job from hudson as a pre-build step?

Question

How do I trigger another job from hudson as a pre-build step?

Honorific

Answer 1

There is a Parameterized Trigger Plugin, which enables "Trigger/call builds on other projects" in "Add build step" menu.

Cesta

THANK YOU! This is the option I was looking for but is not explicitly mentioned on the plugin's page. – Nevels

The docs do mention "usage as a build step", although you need to realize this is what you need, which isn't immediately obvious, certainly not from the plugin name. – Solis

Just an addition that "Trigger/Call build on other project" section should be first and then use other containers like "Execute windows batch command" – Cornwell

Answer 2

You can use the plugin at http://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Join+Plugin

Basically you create 3 jobs:

A = your prebuild ste

B = your main job

C = your trigger.

You 'build' C. It calls A, and once A is successful, it calls B. The plugin page gives you more information. The good thing about this plugin is that you can have any number of pre-build jobs.

We actually have a set of 5 pre-build jobs before our main is run.

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If you don't want to try that:

If you are using Linux, you can do the following from within your "shell" script:

wget http://yourserver/hudson/job/MyJob/build?delay=0sec

This will trigger the job. The bad part about this is that it will not wait for the job to finish.

Selfappointed

Thanks Sagar!! This "bad part" is exactly what I was looking for. But how this Rest API deals with authentication? Because my Jenkins is configure to request login before any action. – Invariant

@NaderA.Jabbar The Jenkins ReST API actually supports authentication with Authentication tokens. You could use a per-job token, or your own authentication API token, from scripts. Check out the URL http://yourserver/hudson/job/MyJob/api for more information for calling builds using the API. Also, under "Perform a build", there are two links. Check the one for calling a build with parameters. – Selfappointed

Answer 3

Actually I know how to answer to your question: This is the plug-in that you need:

PreBuild

It is not widely famous, but it does what you want.

It basically runs a Build before your chosen one. For example: You want A to run before B. You click on "run B" it will execute A before running B.

Pro: -> Very versatile -> Easy to use

Cons: -> No support / Option in case the pre-build fails (e.g. do not build if pre-build fails) -> The development seems not being that active at all.

Here you can see how it looks like

EDIT

This answer is back from '12, I know you are down-voting it, but back then this was a reliable solution, now I am sure there are other plug-ins that do the job.

Riven

you can use the old version of Jenkins that supports that – Riven

This was written a year ago, of course is not a lively suggestion, but it's a solution. – Riven

Answer 4

I have the same issue and I found a way to do:

I am using jenkins version jenkins-1.452-1.1.

Say I have job A and B, and Job A is depending on job B. When building job B, I want A triggered automatically, and B is blocked until A build successfully.

When define build configuration in build section, I add 'trigger build on other projects'. then fill the form.

Quorum

I'm having same thing to do in my project,i'm using the Jenkins ver. 1.479, I enable following in job configuration "Build Triggers->Build after other projects are built", but this is not work for me (not execute the the dependent project also i want to know how to pass parameters to depended project) – Prophylactic