Wildcard for directory name in Jenkinsfile using publishHTML not recognized

Question

In my Jenkinsfile I use publishHTML to publish report for PIT. My step is as follows

stage('Results') {
  publishHTML([allowMissing: false, alwaysLinkToLastBuild: false,
     keepAll: false, reportDir: 'target/pit-reports/*/', reportFiles: 'index.html', reportName: 'PIT Report'])
}

The directory of the index.html is something like this \target\pit-reports\201612081633. That last part 201612081633 is of course different every time. Using target/pit-reports/*/ on a windows machine results in the following error.

ERROR: Specified HTML directory 'D:\David\Tools\Jenkins\workspace\jenkinsSandbox\target\pit-reports\*' does not exist.

The wildcard * or ** does not work. How can I use a wildcard for a directory name in the jenkinsfile and is there any difference when doing this on windows or unix?

Answer 1

I solved this using a workaround because the publishHTML plugin seems to be unable to handle * or **. I now run pitest with -DtimestampedReports=false org.pitest:pitest-maven:mutationCoverage, which disables the timestamped folders. The result step now looks like this.

stage('Results') {
publishHTML([allowMissing: false,
             alwaysLinkToLastBuild: true,
             keepAll: true,
             reportDir: 'target/pit-reports',
             reportFiles: 'index.html',
             reportName: 'PIT Report'
             ])

}

For those who are interested, the full version of my Jenkinsfile can be found on my github repo.