I am using the Pipeline plugin in Jenkins by Clouldbees (the name was Workflow plugin before), I am trying to get the user name in the Groovy script but I am not able to achieve it.
stage 'checkout svn'
node('master') {
// Get the user name logged in Jenkins
}
Did you try installing the Build User Vars plugin? If so, you should be able to run
node {
wrap([$class: 'BuildUser']) {
def user = env.BUILD_USER_ID
}
}
or similar.
It is possible to do this without a plugin (assuming JOB_BASE_NAME
and BUILD_ID
are in the environment):
def job = Jenkins.getInstance().getItemByFullName(env.JOB_BASE_NAME, Job.class)
def build = job.getBuildByNumber(env.BUILD_ID as int)
def userId = build.getCause(Cause.UserIdCause).getUserId()
There is also a getUserName, which returns the full name of the user.
To make it work with Jenkins Pipeline:
Install user build vars plugin
Then run the following:
pipeline {
agent any
stages {
stage('build user') {
steps {
wrap([$class: 'BuildUser']) {
sh 'echo "${BUILD_USER}"'
}
}
}
}
}
Here's a slightly shorter version that doesn't require the use of environment variables:
@NonCPS
def getBuildUser() {
return currentBuild.rawBuild.getCause(Cause.UserIdCause).getUserId()
}
The use of rawBuild
requires that it be in a @NonCPS
block.
def jobUserId, jobUserName
//then somewhere
wrap([$class: 'BuildUser']) {
jobUserId = "${BUILD_USER_ID}"
jobUserName = "${BUILD_USER}"
}
//then
println("Started By: ${jobUserName}")
We were using this plugin : Build User Vars Plugin. More variables are available.
//Below is a generic groovy function to get the XML metadata for a Jenkins build.
//curl the env.BUILD_URL/api/xml parse it with grep and return the string
//I did an or true on curl, but possibly there is a better way
//echo -e "some_string \c" will always return some_string without \n char
//use the readFile() and return the string
def GetUserId(){
sh """
/usr/bin/curl -k -s -u \
\$USERNAME:\$PASSWORD -o \
/tmp/api.xml \
\$BUILD_URL/api/xml || true
THE_USERID=`cat /tmp/api.xml | grep -oP '(?<=<userId>).*?(?=</userId>)'`
echo -e "\$THE_USERID \\c" > /tmp/user_id.txt
"""
def some_userid = readFile("/tmp/user_id.txt")
some_userid
}
I modified @shawn derik response to get it to work in my pipeline:
stage("preserve build user") {
wrap([$class: 'BuildUser']) {
GET_BUILD_USER = sh ( script: 'echo "${BUILD_USER}"', returnStdout: true).trim()
}
}
Then I can reference that variable later on by passing it or in the same scope as ${GET_BUILD_USER} . I installed the same plugin referenced.