How to invoke Ant in a Jenkins Groovy Pipeline

Question

I have created a Jenkins Pipeline job. In this job I want to do the build using Ant. I have configured the Ant variable in Manage **Jenkins > Global Tool Configuration** as Ant1.9.1= D:\path_to_hybris\hybris\bin\platform\apache-ant-1.9.1.

In a freestyle jenkins Job, I know that the build.xml location can be specified as in the below screenshot:

but I am unable to understand how to specify the ant groovy script beyond this point, especially where can we mention the path to build.xml file:

def antHome = tool 'Ant1.9.1'
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Possible duplicate of [How to invoke Ant in Jenkins pipeline job using groovy script?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38103958/how-to-invoke-ant-in-jenkins-pipeline-job-using-groovy-script) — PhoneixS, Jul 14 '17 at 10:45

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered May 30 '18 at 05:15

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you can use ant wrapper in Jenkins`s pipeline groovy script.

withAnt(installation: 'LocalAnt') {
// some block
   sh "ant build"
//for windows 
   bat "ant build"
}

Remember to configure the ant tool in the Jenkins "Global Tool Configuration" with the same name "LocalAnt".

answered May 30 '18 at 05:15

Khalid Bin Huda

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for the `sh "ant build"` do I need to put the path to the build xml file or will simply typing `"ant build" work? – henhen Mar 25 '20 at 05:56
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use something like `sh "ant -f build.xml all"` where `build.xml`is the path to the build file and `all` is the target. the complete looks like this: `withAnt(installation: 'Ant1.9.1') { sh "ant -f build.xml all" }` where `Ant1.9.1` is the name of the Ant installation in Jenkins – sys64738 Feb 10 '22 at 10:01

user1053510 · Answer 2 · 2017-03-10T13:33:43.657

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You can try this:

def antVersion = 'Ant1.9.1'
withEnv( ["ANT_HOME=${tool antVersion}"] ) {
    sh '$ANT_HOME/bin/ant target1 target2'
}

Under Windows this would look like this (I didn't test it though):

def antVersion = 'Ant1.9.1'
withEnv( ["ANT_HOME=${tool antVersion}"] ) {
    bat '%ANT_HOME%/bin/ant.bat target1 target2'
}

This assumes that you have Ant configured in Jenkins with name 'Ant1.9.1'.

edited Mar 10 '17 at 13:33

answered Mar 10 '17 at 10:53

user1053510

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 20 '19 at 14:17

I needed this multiple times within the same Jenkinsfile that needs to be executed on both linux and windows agents so I created a method for it.

You can call ant like this

callAnt("-v -p")

if you add this method definition to your jenkinsfile

def callAnt(String Parameters) {
    if (isUnix()) {
        env.PATH = "${tool 'ant'}/bin;${env.PATH}"
        sh "ant ${Parameters}"
    }
    else {
        env.PATH = "${tool 'ant'}\\bin;${env.PATH}"
        bat "ant ${Parameters}"
    }
}

How to invoke Ant in a Jenkins Groovy Pipeline

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