gitlab-jenkins-plugin

This plugin emulates Jenkins as a GitlabCI Web Service to be used with GitlabHQ.

Current Supported GitLabCI Functions

• /project/PROJECT_NAME/builds/COMMIT_SHA1/status.json

• /project/PROJECT_NAME/builds/status.png?ref=BRANCH_NAME

• /project/PROJECT_NAME/builds/status.png?sha1=COMMIT_SHA1

• /project/PROJECT_NAME/builds/COMMIT_SHA1 redirects to build page.

• /project/PROJECT_NAME In order for it to build properly on push you need to add this as a seperate web hook for just merge requests.

Major Help Needed

I would like this project to be able to handle building merge requests and regular pushes. In order to do this I need a way to configure the git plugin via code to merge two branches together before a build. Much like the RevisionParameterAction.java in the git plugin, we need a class that takes to branches, a source and a target, and can be passed as a build action. I have started an issue for the Git plugin here: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-23362 If you know of a way to do this please PM on twitter at @bass_rock. All the other necessary code exists in this repo and works.

Using it With A Job

• Create a new job by going to New Job
• Set the Project Name
• Feel free to specify the GitHub Project url as the url for the Gitlab project (if you have the GitHub plugin installed)
• In the Source Code Management section:
  • Click Git and enter your Repositroy URL and in Advanced set its Name to origin
  • In Branch Specifier enter origin/${gitlabSourceBranch}
  • In the Additional Behaviours section:
    • Click the Add drop down button and the Merge before build item
    • Specify the name of the repository as origin (if origin corresponds to Gitlab) and enter the Branch to merge to as ${gitlabTargetBranch}
• In the Build Triggers section:
  • Check the Build when a change is pushed to GitLab.
• In GitLab go to the project Settings
  • Click on Services
  • Click on GitLab CI
    • For token put any random string (This is not yet functioning)
    • For Project URL put http://JENKINS_URL/project/PROJECT_NAME
  • Click on Web Hooks
    • Add a Web Hook for Merge Request Events to http://JENKINS_URL/project/PROJECT_NAME (GitLab for some reason does not send a merge request event with the GitLab Service)
• Configure any other pre build, build or post build actions as necessary
• Save to preserve your changes

You can trigger a job a manually by clicking This build is parameterized and adding the relevant build parameters. These include:

• gitlabSourceBranch
• gitlabTargetBranch
• gitlabBranch (This is optional and can be used in shell scripts for the branch being built by the push request)

Help Needed

• /projects/ - seems to be already used by Jenkins, A way to use this path would be awesome
• ?token=XYZ - Can not find a way to include a token parameter on an AbstractProject to security check without an extra plugin configuration
• /PROJECT_NAME/ should really be /PROJECT_ID_NUMBER/ - Can not find a project id number on an AbstractProject to use here instead.

Known Issues

• GitLab CI Merge Status pages says pending when there is no build scheduled, or the status is unknown. This is because I coded a workaround until this bug gets resolved: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/7047

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/gitlab-jenkins-plugin/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• @bass_rock, base ground work, primary developer.
• @DABSquared, company sponsoring development.
• @xaniasd, suggested a temporary work around for merge requests on Gitter.