While using jenkins API, getting a failure on reconfig_job

Question

I am using jenkins rest API to recurse through jobs and then reconfigure this one. All methods work except one. He's is my code :

def get_server_instance():
    jenkins_url = 'xxxx'
    #server = Jenkins(jenkins_url, username = '', password = '')
    # Connect to instance - username and password are optional
    server = jenkins.Jenkins(jenkins_url, username = '', password = '')
    return server


def get_job_details():
    # Refer Example #1 for definition of function 'get_server_instance'
    server = get_server_instance()
    for job in server.get_jobs_list():
        if job == "GithubMigration":
            configuration = server.get_job(job).get_config().encode('utf-8')
            #server.reconfig_job(job, configuration)
            if server.has_job("GithubMigration"):
                server.reconfig_job('GithubMigration', config_xml)

It gets my configuration.xml, find the job as well but fails on server.reconfig_job('GithubMigration', config_xml) with the error , AttributeError: 'Jenkins' object has no attribute 'reconfig_job'

when obviously this functions exists in the jenkins rest API and yes I'm importing jenkins, from jenkinsapi.jenkins import Jenkins .

Edit 1 - I uninstalled Jenkinsapi and have only python-jenkins module and now it fails even before saying

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Jenkins' for line : AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Jenkins'

Any ideas?

Edit 2 :

I tries solely python-jenkins API and tried their own example as you see here http://python-jenkins.readthedocs.org/en/latest/example.html

import jenkins
j = jenkins.Jenkins('http://your_url_here', 'username', 'password')
j.get_jobs()
j.create_job('empty', jenkins.EMPTY_CONFIG_XML)
j.disable_job('empty')
j.copy_job('empty', 'empty_copy')
j.enable_job('empty_copy')
j.reconfig_job('empty_copy', jenkins.RECONFIG_XML)

Even this fails at jenkins.Jenkins with attribute error at Jenkins - No module.

I am pretty sure the API is broken.

Answer 1

Your script is probably importing wrong module. You can check it as follows:

import jenkins
print jenkins.__file__

If printed path is other than installation path of jenkins module (eg. C:\Python27_32\lib\site-packages\jenkins\__init__.pyc), then you should check pythonpath:

import sys
print sys.path

Common problem is existence of python script with same name as imported module in current directory, which is at the first place in search path ''.

For more info on import order see module search path