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POTD: submit a patch to Jenkins, and let him test it for you

October 8th, 2012
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Here’s my 2nd after-JavaOne “project of the day” Jenkins plugin. This has been in the back of my mind for quite some time, but it took this gentleman to grill me on this feature during JavaOne for me to finally put it together — so thank YOU for doing that. although I didn’t catch your name.

The plugin is called the “patch parameter” plugin. This plugin lets you submit a patch when scheduling a build, and that gets applied to the checked out source tree before a build would commence. Any failure to apply a patch will result in a build failure.

This plugin can be used for a “pre-tested commit” workflow. You can work on a change locally, have the diff tested on the server, then if you are satisfied, you can commit it. I can imagine this would be also an interesting building block for integration with code review tools.

I should also note that we have the Subversion Merge plugin for a different approach to a similar problem, and distributed VCS can generally do this better (for example I do one for Git in CloudBees Validated Merge plugin.)

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  1. Bruno P. Kinoshita
    October 8th, 2012 at 16:51 | #1
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    Very useful! I bet some Apache projects could use this plug-in, maybe combining with its JIRA in some way too! Thanks!!!!

  2. kohsuke
    October 10th, 2012 at 13:29 | #2
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    Olivier created a Maven plugin to use this functionality from Maven. Check out http://olamy.blogspot.fr/2012/10/test-your-local-patch-on-remote-jenkins.html

  3. Nicolas De loof
    October 10th, 2012 at 13:38 | #3
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    Just need to wait for someone to create the adequate IDE plugin :)

    in the meantime, as a poor man IDE integration, can define an “External tool” in eclipse to run :
    svn diff > patch
    curl -X POST -F “patch.diff=@patch” http://jenkins/job/test/buildWithParameters

  4. Oliver Doepner
    October 18th, 2012 at 19:46 | #4
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    Hi Kohsuke,

    The gentleman who “grilled” you at JavaOne about pre-tested commits was me. :)

    I am glad I did not annoy you with all my questions. Great that it triggered a creative process!

    By the way: I have created minimal Debian server image for Virtualbox that supports a convenient Jenkins installation in one line with JDK, Maven and Ant runtime preconfigured as the Debian ones: http://odoepner.wordpress.com/category/dev-tools/jenkins/ (bottom post)

    Cheers
    Oliver

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