How create and configure a new Jenkins Job using groovy?

Question

There are a lot of examples of groovy scripts (http://scriptlerweb.appspot.com/catalog/list) however I have found no examples of new job creation. Is there a good example on

Answer 1

The Jenkins plugin Job DSL Plugin can add steps into jobs to create/modify existing jobs.

Here is the example from the plugin's web site, that creates a job for each branch in a git repository:

def project = 'quidryan/aws-sdk-test'
def branchApi = new URL("https://api.github.com/repos/${project}/branches")
def branches = new groovy.json.JsonSlurper().parse(branchApi.newReader())
branches.each {
    def branchName = it.name
    def jobName = "${project}-${branchName}".replaceAll('/','-')
    job(jobName) {
        scm {
            git("git://github.com/${project}.git", branchName)
        }
        steps {
            maven("test -Dproject.name=${project}/${branchName}")
        }
    }
}