Job dsl to replicate existing Jenkins Job

Question

I'm a noob to the groovy and came across the job-dsl Jenkins plugin which suits my requirement.

My requirement is to replicate the existing Jenkins Job (say A) and create a new job B with only change as subversion URL (in the subversion plugin) in the Job B.

I tried out developing a basic job-dsl script like below and develop further from there that suits my aforementioned requirement.

job('ci') {
    description 'Build and test the app.'
    scm {
        svn('https://svn.mydomain.com/repo/project1/trunk')
    }
}

Below is the issue Im facing, I tried figuring out the answer without any luck and would be really grateful for any help.

Using dsl from string
ERROR: Build step failed with exception
groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: Script1.job() is applicable for argument types: (java.lang.String, Script1$_run_closure1) values: [PROJ-unit-tests, Script1$_run_closure1@199fab4]
Possible solutions: job(groovy.lang.Closure), run(), run(), any(), wait(), dump()

Your DSL script seems to be correct. It runs on the playground without problem. Do you use the "Process Job DSLs" build step? You need to provide more context. — daspilker
@daspilker: Yes , In Jenkins , I use - "Process Job DSLs" build step and just entered my sample code and trying building the job. but the same issue: Building in workspace D:\Jenkins\workspace\Seed_Proj Using dsl from string ERROR: Build step failed with exception groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: Script1.freeStyleJob() is applicable for argument types: (java.lang.String) values: [SimpleJob] at javaposse.jobdsl.dsl.DslScriptLoader.parseScript(DslScriptLoader.java:72) at javaposse.jobdsl.dsl.DslScriptLoader.runDsl(DslScriptLoader.java:39) — baba yaga
@daspilker : I'm unable move forward and not sure how to create a new Job (Job B) keeping Job A as a template. The only change in the Job B should be a different SVN branch URL that of Job A. looking forward for your valuable suggestion. — baba yaga

daspilker daspilker · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-02T10:42:45

If something fundamental is not working, try to update the Job DSL plugin to the latest version and try to get the tutorial steps (you can skip #4) working.

See the comments above for details.

Job dsl to replicate existing Jenkins Job

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