Running a groovy script through jenkinsfile which runs on a remote linux box

Question

I have a abc.groovy script which takes an argument. In my local I run it as

$ groovy abc.groovy <argumentValue>

I have stored this abc.groovy in a remote linux box under path "/home/path/to a directory/" and I have a jenkins pipeline job with a Jenkinsfile. How can I call abc.groovy from the JenkinsFile.

Answer 1

You can use GroovyShell to evaluate your script.

GroovyShell shell = new GroovyShell() def execute = shell.parse(new File('/path/to/abc.groovy')) execute.method()

Answer 2

You'll want to use the load step in your Jenkinsfile like this:

def pipeline {
    agent 'slave'
    stages {
        stage ('Load Groovy Script') {
          steps {
              load 'path/to/abc.groovy'
          }
     }
}

(This example uses the declarative pipeline syntax, but is easily ported to scripted)

Note: you can't pass parameters to the groovy script in the load step, however this isn't hard to work around.