How can a Jenkins user authentication details be “passed” to a script which uses Jenkins API to create jobs?

Question

I have a script that delete and re-create jobs through curl HTTP-calls and I want to get rid of any hard-coded \"username:password\". E.g. curl -X POST $url --user use

Answer 1

If you want to write a script to automate creation of jobs using the Jenkins API, you can use one of the API clients to do that. A ruby client for Jenkins is available at https://github.com/arangamani/jenkins_api_client

gem install jenkins_api_client

require "rubygems"
require "jenkins_api_client"

# Initialize the client by passing in the server information
# and credentials to communicate with the server
client = JenkinsApi::Client.new(
  :server_ip => "127.0.0.1",
  :username => "awesomeuser",
  :password => "awesomepassword"
)

# The following block will create 10 jobs in Jenkins
# test_job_0, test_job_1, test_job_2, ...
10.times do |num|
  client.job.create_freestyle(:name => "test_job_#{num}")
end

# The jobs in Jenkins can be listed using
client.job.list_all

The API client can be used to perform a lot of operations.