Jenkins parameters default to env variable?

Question

I am trying to crate parameters field which is default to current build no.

parameters {
    string(
        name: 'DEPLOY_BUILD_NUMBER',
        defaultValue: '${BUILD_NUMBER}',
        description: 'Fresh Build and Deploy OR Deploy Previous Build Number'
    )
}

But it looks like the assignment of BUILD_NUMBER env var to parameter DEPLOY_BUILD_NUMBER is not happening.

even following one didn't help

steps {
        script {
            if (params.DEPLOY_BUILD_NUMBER == null){
                DEPLOY_BUILD_NUMBER = env.BUILD_NUMBER
            }
        }
}

Is there any other way to do this ?

Solution

You need to use double quotes instead of single quotes. Single-quoted strings don't perform string interpolation.

For instance:

parameters {
    string(
        name: 'DEPLOY_BUILD_NUMBER',
        defaultValue: "${BUILD_NUMBER}",
        description: 'Fresh Build and Deploy OR Deploy Previous Build Number'
    )
}

Comments

[roy]

after this change, echo "${DEPLOY_BUILD_NUMBER}" prints env.BUILD_NUMBER. How can I get actual value of env.BUILD_NUMBER, when I refer to ${DEPLOY_BUILD_NUMBER}