Jenkins Workflow Plugin: How to create a job from groovy DSL?

Question

I'm evaluating https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Workflow+Plugin and very like its concept of Groovy DSL in Jenkinsfile under version control. I tried to create different build steps, nodes and stages.

I have a multi-module project and want to have a kind of separate "job" for each module. Each module should have it's own Junit, Findbugs, Checkstyle reports.

However when I tried to collect Junit report it was attached to Workflow job, not it's node or stage.

Question:

Is it possible to create (and update dynamically) a job from Jenkins Workflow plugin DSL? If not, is there any analogue of job that can handle several reports within single workflow?

Answer 1

Since Workflow flow scripts can access the Jenkins model I suspect they can update a job configuration (is that what you mean by the first question?), but don't know if that's its strong suit. That would be a task for Job DSL plugin.

Build steps can invoke other jobs--search for build job in that page--and each of those can have its own publish steps. That might get what you need.

Answer 2

JENKINS-27395 (and analogues for other publishers) would be needed to fully support this use case in one Workflow job. Currently reports from different parts of the build are simply aggregated.