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?

Answer 1

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.