How to get the BUILD_USER in Jenkins when job triggered by timer?

jenkins jenkins-plugins jenkins-pipeline
Musaffir Lp picture Musaffir Lp · Mar 24, 2016 · Viewed 67.4k times · Source

I wanted to show the user who triggered a Jenkins job in the post job email. This is possible by using the plugin Build User Vars Plugin and the env variable BUILD_USER. But this variable do not get initialized when the job is triggered by a scheduler.

How can we achieve this? I know we have a plugin called - EnvInject Plugin, and that can be used...

But I just want to know how we can use this and achieve the solution...

Answer

Kevin Brotcke picture Kevin Brotcke · Apr 30, 2018

Build user vars plugin wasn't working for me so I did a quick-and-dirty hack:

BUILD_CAUSE_JSON=$(curl --silent ${BUILD_URL}/api/json | tr "{}" "\n" | grep "Started by")
BUILD_USER_ID=$(echo $BUILD_CAUSE_JSON | tr "," "\n" | grep "userId" | awk -F\" '{print $4}')
BUILD_USER_NAME=$(echo $BUILD_CAUSE_JSON | tr "," "\n" | grep "userName" | awk -F\" '{print $4}')

Related questions

How to set and reference a variable in a Jenkinsfile

I have a declarative pipeline script for my multibranch project in which I would like to read a text file and store the result as a string variable to be accessed by a later step in the pipeline. Using the …

Read More
Jenkins Multibranch pipeline: What is the branch name variable?

I'm new to the Jenkins Pipeline plugin, and especially new to the multibranch pipeline plugin. In a standard build I have access to the $GIT_BRANCH variable to know which branch is being built. However that variable isn't set in …

Read More
Correct usage of stash\unstash into a different directory

In one of my stages I need to copy the contents of two folders after a build is completed and copy to a different directory. I am actually converting a freestyle job to pipeline, and have been using the artifact …

Read More