Is it possible to pass associative arguments in Jenkins?

Question

Current Jenkins setup deploys single version of different services, if they are selected via Boolean parameter option.

Say, there are four services in total - A, B, C, D and the version to be deployed will remain same(1.0), for all services. If only A is checked/enabled, script will deploy version 1.0 for service A and the same logic applies for other services.

Now the change being, each service can have its own version to be deployed when its selected. I'm not sure how to handle this in Jenkins.

Ex . If service_A is selected, it should have a placeholder or mapping to get its corresponding deployment version also and the same goes for other services too.

Is it possible via Jenkins ?

user_2627018 · Answer

Non-Pipeline Solution with Active choice plugin.

You can get this done using the Active Choice Plugin. This supports HTML rendering. So in your case. First, let's get the Service name, and based on this we will render a text box.

First Add an Active Choice Parameter

For the Groovy script add the following content.

return ["Service01", "Service02"]

Next, add an Active Choices Reactive Reference Parameter like below.

For the groovy part add the following content.

def htmlContent = ""

if(services.contains("Service01")){
 htmlContent = """
    ${htmlContent}
    
"""
}

if(services.contains("Service02")){
 htmlContent  = """
    ${htmlContent}
    
"""
}


htmlContent = "${htmlContent}

    
    Service 01 
    
    
     

    
    

    
    Service 02 
    
    
     

    
    "

return htmlContent

Make sure Referenced parameters are added. This needs to refer to the variable you used in the first parameter.

Now the pipeline execution will look like the below.

Note: Active Choice Parameter plugin does not support blue ocean UI.

With A declarative Pipeline

If you are willing to take everything to a declarative pipeline you can do something like the below.

def INPUT_1 = ""
def INPUT_2 = ""

pipeline {
    agent any
    stages {
     stage("Get Inputs") {
                steps{
                    timeout(time: 300, unit: 'SECONDS') {
                    script {
                        // The Initial Choice
                        INPUT_1 = input message: 'Please select', ok: 'Next',
                                        parameters: [
                                        choice(name: 'SERVICE', choices: ['Service01','Service02'], description: 'Please select')]
                              
                        if(INPUT_1.equals("Service01")) {
                              INPUT_2 = input message: 'Please Select', ok: 'Next',
                                              parameters: [ choice(name: 'Version', choices: ['v01','v02'], description: 'Please select')] 
                        } else {
                              INPUT_2 = input message: 'Please Select', ok: 'Next',
                                        parameters: [
                                        choice(name: 'Version', choices: ["v1.1","v1.2","v1.3"], description: 'Select the file')]              
                        }

                        echo "INPUT 1 ::: ${INPUT_1}"
                        echo "INPUT 2 ::: ${INPUT_2}"
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
    }
    post {
        success {
            echo 'The process is successfully Completed....'
        }
    }
}

Which results in the following.

Is it possible to pass associative arguments in Jenkins?

1 Answers

Non-Pipeline Solution with Active choice plugin.

With A declarative Pipeline