Automating hudson/jenkins via REST and curl – a very small cookbook

As you know, Hudson supports a RESTful-API. So here a small cookbook using curl (running in cygwin). It is very easy, when you are accustomed to it.

#Get the current configuration and save it locally
curl -X GET http://user:password@hudson.server.org/job/myjobname/config.xml -o mylocalconfig.xml

#Update the configuration via posting a local configuration file
curl -X POST http://user:password@hudson.server.org/job/myjobname/config.xml --data-binary "@mymodifiedlocalconfig.xml"

#Creating a new job via posting a local configuration file
curl -X POST "http://user:password@hudson.server.org/createItem?name=newjobname" --data-binary "@newconfig.xml" -H "Content-Type: text/xml"

Update: Use --data-binary to post the data, else the line-endings won’t be transfered correctly.