Also, how did you check whether the value came through? Just created a test
job and did echo $LABELS or something like that?
On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 3:57:12 PM UTC+1, ThomasBrouwer wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>
> I just cannot seem to be able to add environmental variables in my plugin.
> I made a separate class extending EnvironmentContributor:
>
> package hudson.plugins.throttleconcurrents;
>
> import hudson.EnvVars;
> import hudson.Extension;
> import hudson.model.EnvironmentContributor;
> import hudson.model.TaskListener;
> import hudson.model.Run;
>
> import java.io.IOException;
>
> @Extension
> public class ThrottleAddEnvVar extends EnvironmentContributor {
> // This class is for adding the environmental variable containing the
> assigned labels
> @Override
> public void buildEnvironmentFor(Run r, EnvVars envs, TaskListener
> listener) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
> ThrottleQueueTaskDispatcher.writeMessage("Running buildEnvironmentFor()!");
> //Put together category-labels string
> String labelEnvVar = "category1|label1<>category2|label2"; // String
> storing the LABELS environmental variable. Form is:
> category1|label1<>category2|label2<>...
> envs.put("LABELS", labelEnvVar);
> }
> }
>
> but this does not do anything at all. In fact,
> the ThrottleQueueTaskDispatcher.writeMessage() call is never made so
> buildEnvironmentFor() is simply never executed. When is this function
> supposed to be called?
> I've been noticing more often that having a class have @Extension does not
> mean it is picked up. What else, besides what is above, would be necessary?
> This generalizes to other extension points such as Builders and such.
>
> Help will be greatly appreciated!
> Thomas
>
