Jenkins插件开发（2）——搭建开发环境

官方文档参照：https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Plugin+tutorial

 This document, together with the hello-world plugin, shows you how to get started with the plugin development.

What Can Plugins Do?

Jenkins defines extensibility points, which are interfaces or abstract classes that model an aspect of a build system. Those interfaces define contracts of what need to be implemented, and Jenkins allows plugins to contribute those implementations. See this document for more about extension points.

In this document, we'll be implementing a Builder that says hello. (built-in builders include Ant, Maven, and shell script. Builders build a project.)

Setting Up Environment

To develop a plugin, you need Maven 2 (why?) and JDK 6.0 or later. If this is the first time you use Maven, make sure Maven can download stuff over the internet.

Nexus Users If you are using the Nexus Maven Repository Manager, you can ignore these instructions, and instead, click here for instructions on how to add Jenkins build prerequisites and the proper settings.xml entries.

With a fairly recent version of Maven (ie. 2.0.9 or newer) you should only need to add the following to your ~/.m2/settings.xml (Windows users will find them in%USERPROFILE%\.m2\settings.xml):

<settings>
  <pluginGroups>
    <pluginGroup>org.jenkins-ci.tools</pluginGroup>
  </pluginGroups>

  <profiles>
    <!-- Give access to Jenkins plugins -->
    <profile>
      <id>jenkins</id>
      <activation>
        <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault> <!-- change this to false, if you don't like to have it on per default -->
      </activation>
      <repositories>
        <repository>
          <id>repo.jenkins-ci.org</id>
          <url>http://repo.jenkins-ci.org/public/</url>
        </repository>
      </repositories>
      <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
          <id>repo.jenkins-ci.org</id>
          <url>http://repo.jenkins-ci.org/public/</url>
        </pluginRepository>
      </pluginRepositories>
    </profile>
  </profiles>
  <mirrors>
    <mirror>
      <id>repo.jenkins-ci.org</id>
      <url>http://repo.jenkins-ci.org/public/</url>
      <mirrorOf>m.g.o-public</mirrorOf>
    </mirror>
  </mirrors>
</settings>

This will let you use short names for Jenkins Maven plugins (i.e. hpi:create instead of org.jenkins-ci.tools:maven-hpi-plugin:1.61:create).

 备注：因为我用的是Nexus Maven Repository，所以直接配了一个Proxy到“http://repo.jenkins-ci.org/public”。

 

Creating a New Plugin

 

To start a new plugin, use the online skeleton generator. Alternatively, if you are more comfortable with Maven, run the following command:

 

$ mvn -U org.jenkins-ci.tools:maven-hpi-plugin:create

 

This will ask you a few questions, like the groupId (the Maven jargon for the package name) and the artifactId (the Maven jargon for your project name), then create a skeleton plugin from which you can start with. Make sure you can build this:

 

$ cd newly-created-directory
$ mvn package

 

Explanations:

 

-U means that Maven should update all relevant Maven plugins (check for plugin updates)
hpi this prefix specifies that the Jenkins HPI Plugin is being invoked, a plugin that supports development of Jenkins plugins
create is the goal which creates the directory layout and the POM for your new Jenkins plugin and it adds it to the module list
package is a standard phase which compiles all sources, runs the tests and creates a package - when used by the HPI plugin it will create an *.hpi file

Building a Plugin

To build a plugin, run mvn install. This will create the file ./target/pluginname.hpi that you can deploy to Jenkins.

$ mvn install

Setting up a productive environment with your IDE

NetBeans

NetBeans users can use the IDE's Maven support to open the project directly. (Bundled in 6.7 and up; available from Plugin Manager for 6.5.) The archetype may also be available right from the New Project dialog.

As you navigate through the code, you can tell NetBeans to attach source code jar files by clicking "Attach" button that appears in the top of the main content window. This allows you to read the Jenkins core source code as you develop plugins.

IntelliJ IDEA

IntelliJ 7.0 (or later) users can load pom.xml directly from IDE, and you should see all the source code of libraries and Jenkins core all the way to the bottom.

IntelliJ defaults to downloading sources and JavaDocs on demand. So, to see the source, you may need to click the Download artifacts button in the Maven Projects tab.

Eclipse

Use Eclipse 3.3 or later to avoid a bug in Eclipse 3.2.
Eclipse users can run the following Maven command to generate Eclipse project files (the custom outputDirectory parameter is used to work around the lack of JSR-269 annotation processor support in Eclipse:)

$ mvn -DdownloadSources=true -DdownloadJavadocs=true -DoutputDirectory=target/eclipse-classes eclipse:eclipse

Alternatively, Eclipse users can install m2eclipse to open a Maven project directly in IDE. （备注：用m2eclipse方便点。）

If you get the error message Unable to find a plugin class. Did you put @plugin in javadoc? this maybe caused by Eclipse and Maven both using the target folder for build output.
Run mvn clean before building with Maven or change the output path.

Plugin Workspace Layout

The plugin workspace consists of the following major pieces:

pom.xml

Maven uses it for building your plugin.

src/main/java

Java source files of the plugin.

src/main/resources

Jelly/Groovy views of the plugin. See this document for more about it.

src/main/webapp

Static resources of the plugin, such as images and HTML files.

Source Code

Let's take a look at the source code. A plugin's main entry point is a PluginImpl class that extends from Plugin. Once Jenkins detects your plugin class (via its inheritance relationship from Plugin), it will create an instance, and invoke methods. A Plugin class is optional; a plugin may simply implement extensions:

Most of the time, a plugin class just registers extension points, and your main work involves implementing those extension points. See the source code for more about how aBuilder is implemented and what it does.

Debugging a Plugin

NetBeans 6.7+ users can just hit Debug. For all others, run the following command to launch Jenkins with your plugin:
Convenient:

mvnDebug hpi:run

Unix:

$ export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,address=8000,suspend=n"
$ mvn hpi:run

Windows:

> set MAVEN_OPTS=-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,address=8000,suspend=n
> mvn hpi:run

If you open http://localhost:8080/ in your browser, you should see the Jenkins page running in Jetty. The MAVEN_OPTS portion launches this whole thing with the debugger port 8000, so you should be able to start a debug session to this port from your IDE.

Once this starts running, keep it running. Jetty will pick up all the changes automatically.

1. When you make changes to view files in src/main/resources or resource files in src/main/webapp, just hit F5 in your browser to see the changes.
2. When you change Java source files, compile them in your IDE (NetBeans 6.7+: Debug > Apply Code Changes) and Jetty should automatically redeploy Jenkins to pick up those changes. There is no need to run mvn at all.

启动后截图如下：