How to call REST from jenkins workflow

Question

I wonder how to call REST API from a (groovy) Jenkins workflow script. I can execute \"sh \'curl -X POST ...\'\" - it works, but building the request as a curl command is cu

Answer 1

Have you tried Groovy's HTTPBuilder Class? For example:

@Grapes(
    @Grab(group='org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder', module='http-builder', version='0.7.1')
)

import groovyx.net.http.HTTPBuilder
import static groovyx.net.http.ContentType.*
import static groovyx.net.http.Method.*

def http = new HTTPBuilder("http://api.geonames.org/citiesJSON?north=44.1&south=-9.9&east=-22.4&west=55.2&lang=de&username=demo")

http.request(POST, JSON ) { req ->
    body = []
    response.success = { resp, reader ->
        println "$resp.statusLine   Respond rec"

    }
}