[Jenkins] Use python requests to programatically get and set Jenkins job configuration

Jenkins provided a very nice REST api to interact. In Python, we can use

requests

package. For simplicity, we are going to use password based authentication. For details on

requests

package, please see its official documentation.

Get the job configuration

Get the configuration is real easy. Please replace

jenkins_ip

,

jenkins_port

,

job_name

,

username

,

password

with your customized value.

import requests
url = http://jenkins_ip:jenkins_port/job/job_name/config.xml r = requests.get(url, auth=('username', 'password'))
config = r.text

The

config

is an unicode xml string of the job configuration.

Set the job configuration

To modify the job configuration, you can post the modified

config

to the same url.

p = requests.post(url, data=config, auth=('username', 'password'))

Not there are two things you might need to pay attention to:

1. the url is

url = http://jenkins_ip:jenkins_port/job/job_name/config.xml[/code], not 
url = http://jenkins_ip:jenkins_port/job/job_name[/code] 
2. use the 
data
 parameter, not the 
files
 parameter. Reason is listed here.