Do you have any examples of groovy script within a Dynamic Parameter 
executing an external shell script?  I can't seem to figure out the correct 
syntax and then pass it back to jenkins in a way that will be parsed as a 
set of parameter choices in the UI.

Thanks

On Friday, July 18, 2014 9:23:07 PM UTC-5, Ioannis Moutsatsos wrote:
>
> Given that dynamic UI controls such as  Dynamic Parameter and Uno-Choice 
> <https://github.com/biouno/uno-choice-plugin> only support groovy, I 
> think it may be worthwhile investigating how groovy can be used to access 
> MongoDB. 
>
> To start with I would consider using the gmongo 
> <https://github.com/poiati/gmongo> wrapper to MongoDB.
>
>
> On Friday, July 18, 2014 9:41:28 AM UTC-4, Robert Parker wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to create a Jenkins job where I do a backup and deploy of 
>> certain databases to a remote MongoDB instance. I'd like this build to be 
>> parameterized so that at build time the user chooses from a list of valid 
>> MongoDB hostnames and then once the user selects the valid DB hostname, a 
>> second list parameter choice box will be dynamically populated with all 
>> valid database names on that hostnames. Then once The user has selected the 
>> DB name, that will be stored in a parameter "DB" that can be passed to a 
>> Build Step "Execute Shell" script to do the actual work.
>>
>> My problem is that I need for a way to execute a script in the Jenkins 
>> Dynamic Parameter (Cascading) Plug-in that will run a shell (or ideally, 
>> python) script that will return a list of valid DB names on the selected 
>> host. I'm not able to get groovy script portion of the plugin to execute 
>> shell commands on the local OS (like the"Execute Shell" build step does).
>>
>> Ideally I'd like to run something like this where "MONGOHOST" is the 
>> first parameter chosen by the user:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env pythonfrom pymongo import MongoClient
>> client = MongoClient('mongodb://${MONGOHOST}:27017/')
>> choicelist = client.database_names()
>> client.close()
>>
>> I'd then like "choicelist" to be presented in such a way as they become 
>> populated as the available choices for a "DB" parameter.
>>
>> How can I achieve this, especially since the Dynamic Choice parameter 
>> only accepts groovy script and not native python?
>>
>

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