How to get or pass other job build duration to current job

Question

I have two test jobs(say job A and job B), and will run the test report job(say job C) after job A and job B finished, and will send test report with the email template which I want to contain job A and job B duration string. So how to get the job A and job B duration string in job C?

Answer 1

You can curl the api for the json for the build to get the duration and convert it to human readable format:

https://<jenkins-url>:<port>/job/<job-name>/lastBuild/api/json

If you want to see a 'pretty' version of the json, you can append the below to the above url:

?pretty=true

There will be a duration variable within the json that will contain the time spent building (not sure if it highlights any 'waiting' time).

Some examples of people doing similar things:

• Retrieve id of remotely triggered jenkins job
• https://santoshbandage.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/jenkins-api-to-get-build-details/