Issue

I want to be able to check on the status of my previous build in a pipeline script.

Environment

• CloudBees CI (CloudBees Core) on modern cloud platforms - Managed controller
• CloudBees CI (CloudBees Core) on traditional platforms - Client controller
• CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise - Managed controller
• CloudBees Jenkins Platform - Client controller
• CloudBees Jenkins Distribution
• Jenkins LTS

Resolution

This would be what your pipeline script would look like:

if(!hudson.model.Result.SUCCESS.equals(currentBuild.rawBuild.getPreviousBuild()?.getResult())) {
  echo "last build failed"
}

This will check if the last build was a failure and then echo that the last build failed.

Several methods will need to be whitelisted:

• method hudson.model.Run getPreviousBuild
• method hudson.model.Run getResult
• method org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.support.steps.build.RunWrapper getRawBuild

Tested product/plugin versions

This was last tested on Jenkins 2.204.1 with the Script Security Plugin version 1.68.

References

• Pipeline as Code in Jenkins