Copy generated folder from one job to another in Hudson/Jenkins

Question

I have two jobs in my Hudson configuration. Let's call them A and B.

Job A was created specifically to generate a folder application_home. This folder is a ready-to-be-used-in-installations-application-home-folder.

Job B is the "pack-all-together-for-installation-job". It needs to copy the application_home generated by job A to generate the installer. My problem is that after some investigation, I was not able to do this in a simple way.

I could use shell script, but then I would need to know job A path plus where its workspace is to get application_ home folder.

Is there a simpler way to do this?

EDIT

I know Copy Artifact Plugin. The problem is that it only copies artifacts. I need to copy the folder application_ home as it is, because it's already in the structure to be used in the installer. If there's a way to use this plugin to copy only the folder, I haven't found it.

EDIT 2. Answer:

Ok, you can do it using Copy Artifact Plugin. You need to

• Set its configuration to "copy from WORKSPACE of latest completed build".
• Set Artifacts to copy option the folder like this: target/application_home/**
• Set Target directory to where you want to somethine like: installation_bundle_folder/application_home.

and it's done :)

Solution

You could try the Copy Artifact Plugin.

Then you could add a build step to "pack-all-together-for-installation-job" that would copy application_home to the packaging directory. There is an option to only include the latest stable build of Project A.

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Another alternative is to have a post-build step for a successful Project A build that scripts the copy of the application_home over to where Project B will use it. You can use the WORKSPACE environment variable to get the absolute location. (See here for a list of environmental variables).

Comments

[Caesar Ralf]

I actually tryied Copy Artifact Plugin, but it seems to be able to copy only maven artifacts. jars per say. My application_home is inside the "target" folder of one of the submodules of the project of job A. Do you have any idea how to do this?

[joachim stephen]

@RalfHoppen another idea is to script it, though I'd suggest a "push" workflow over a "pull".

[Caesar Ralf]

Found a way using Copy Artifact. I needed to check "copy from WORKSPACE from latest succesful build" and set the path to the application_home. :)