In a JenkinsFile, I am trying to recover a gzip compressed file from the url: https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-ruby-standalone/releases/download/v1.91.0/pact-1.91.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.
With the command
sh 'curl -LO https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-ruby-standalone/releases/download/v1.91.0/pact-1.91.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz'
things work neatly and I can unzip the file etc. However, I need to make this http request via the http_request plugin from Jenkins (doc here: https://plugins.jenkins.io/http_request)
My code follows the Jenkins documentation:
def response = httpRequest url: "https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-ruby-standalone/releases/download/v1.91.0/pact-1.91.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz",
httpMode: 'GET'
writeFile file: 'pact-1.91.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz', text: response.content
The issue is that it does not recognize the file as a gzip compressed data, so I cannot really unzip it via the command tar xzf pact-1.91.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.
To check for the file format, I ran the following command in the JenkinsFile:
sh 'file pact-1.91.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz'
Output: pact-1.91.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz: data
Output Expected: pact-1.91.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz: gzip compressed data
I tried to see if I could get the original file and change its format via a linux command, but not sure this is possible. Maybe there is a way either from Jenkins or from Linux to convert this file to a gzip format?
In the end, I was able to find another solution by using the outputFile parameter provided by the Jenkins plugin as the following:
httpRequest url: "https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-ruby-standalone/releases/download/v1.91.0/pact-1.91.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz",
httpMode: 'GET',
validResponseCodes: "200"
outputFile: 'pact-1.91.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz'