Passing data between build steps in Jenkins

Question

I\'d like to do something along the lines of:

This is overly simple and just demonstrates what I\'d like to do. Basically, I want to be able to store and access vari

Answer 1

One way to work with Jenkins variables is to use jenkins-cli.jar in the build step, it takes some work but this will add FOO=1 in the parameters list, since it's running in a build step it knows which build to set the parameter for.

java -jar ${JENKINS_HOME}/war/WEB-INF/jenkins-cli.jar -s ${JENKINS_URL} set-build-parameter FOO 1