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hudson: way to get the user value who initiated the build?

Is there a way to get the hudson job initiated user name. Is it possible to get using script shell, py etc.

Lets assume I have the build # which was initiated. I know how to get the latest build info using api but would like to get a user details for a specific job.

Do you think, this will work for hudson? :) https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Build+User+Vars+Plugin

Thanks in advance

Solution

  • That plugin will not work with Hudson, unless you download a very old version of the plugin. I'm not sure how many people are still using Hudson and haven't upgraded to Jenkins.

    Anyway, when a user manually triggers a build, this is called a "user cause"; there are other types of cause, e.g. SCM trigger.

    You can use the JSON or XML API to get the causes for a build, for example:
    https://ci.jenkins-ci.org/job/remoting/lastSuccessfulBuild/api/xml?xpath=//action/cause/userId

    In this case, this returns the username that caused the build to run.
    Though note that there may be multiple causes for a build, and potentially other cause types that use the userId field.

    This works in Jenkins, but it should also work in Hudson, but I haven't tested it.