Dynamic DSL

Not all of the 1000+ Jenkins plugins are supported by the built-in DSL. If the API Viewer does not list support for a certain plugin, the dynamic DSL can be used to fill the gap.

Use the embedded API Viewer to explore the available DSL methods. If your Jenkins instance is running at http://localhost:8080, then the API viewer can be opened at http://localhost:8080/plugin/job-dsl/api-viewer/index.html. You can find a link to embedded API Viewer in the "Process Job DSLs" build step and in the task bar of the seed job. Dynamic methods are marked with a purple "Dynamic" tag. The dynamic DSL is not available in the online API Viewer.

If a methods is marked as required in the API viewer, it must be specified within it's context.

The following example shows a DSL script for using the dynamic DSL to configure the CVS Plugin.

job('example') {
    scm {
        cvsscm {
            repositories {
                cvsRepository {
                    cvsRoot(':pserver:username@hostname:/opt/path/to/a/repo')
                    passwordRequired(false)
                    password(null)
                    compressionLevel(-1)
                    repositoryBrowser {}
                    repositoryItems {
                        cvsRepositoryItem {
                            modules {
                                cvsModule {
                                    localName('bar')
                                    projectsetFileName('bar')
                                    remoteName('foo')
                                }
                            }
                            location {
                                tagRepositoryLocation {
                                    tagName('test')
                                    useHeadIfNotFound(false)
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            canUseUpdate(true)
            pruneEmptyDirectories(true)
            legacy(false)
            skipChangeLog(false)
            disableCvsQuiet(false)
            cleanOnFailedUpdate(false)
            forceCleanCopy(false)
        }
    }
}

Be aware that IDE Support is currently not available for the dynamic DSL.

The dynamic DSL is only supported when running in Jenkins, e.g. it is not available when running from the command line or in the Playground. Use The Configure Block to generate custom config elements when not running in Jenkins.

The dynamic DSL will not work for all plugins, e.g. if a plugin does not use the @DataBoundConstructor and @DataBoundSetter annotations to declare parameters. In that case The Configure Block can be used to generate the config XML.