Issue

I would like to be able to update job config files remotely using the Jenkins Python API.

Environment

• CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise
• Remote Access API
• JenkinsAPI

Resolution

Here is an example that replaces occurrences of oldvalue with newvalue in job test.

#!/usr/bin/python

from jenkinsapi.jenkins import Jenkins

if __name__ == '__main__':
        jenkins = 'http://localhost:8080/'
        server = Jenkins(jenkins, username = 'admin', password = 'admin')
        job = server.get_job('test')
        config=job.get_config()
        new = config.replace('oldvalue', 'newvalue')
        job.update_config(new)

Obviously, replace:

• username = 'admin', password = 'admin' with your username and password
• http://localhost:8080/ with your Jenkins URL
• test with your job name

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